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Quotes About Confrontation

Son, always answer back when you receive an insult. Do it straight away. Even if there's a chance there was nothing behind it, take back control, answer them back. An insult is an attack. You must counter.
~ Christos Tsiolkas
When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.
~ Chuck Crisafulli
Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You can guess this is how men have been handling Eva's hostility for her whole life. Just distract her. Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
She says that the problem with passive people is that they force you to take action. After that, they hate you for it. They never forgive you.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Get out of here, and do your little life, but remember I'm watching you, Raymond Hessel, and I'd rather kill you than see you working a shit job for just enough money to buy cheese and watch television.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Driving east, I'm not sure what we're running from. Evie or the police of Mr. Baxter or the Rhea sisters. Or nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up, getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if by running we won't have to get on with our lives.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Only two guys to a fight. One fight at a time. They fight without shirts or shoes. The fights go on as long as they have to. Those are the other rules of fight club.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Most guys are at fight club because of something they're too scared to fight. After a few fights, you're afraid a lot less.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I say, no. You've used me enough. If you don't cooperate, we'll go after Marla. I say, lead the way.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
She says that the problem with passive people is that they force you to take action. After that, they hate you for it.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Kid…" I'd say, "Don't say I didn't warn you.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
As if the only choice they have left is how they're going to die, and they want to die in a fight.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The door to my boss's office is always closed now, and we haven't traded more than two words any day since he found the fight club rules in the copy machine and I maybe implied I might gut him with a shotgun blast. Just me clowning around, again.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I could just call you Asshole or Shithead. Because you're kinda both, you ask me.
~ Chuck Wendig
They raise their blasters as she lowers hers. "I'm sorry, Captain," she says. Then, to her backup: "Arrest him. Take him to detention level—No. Wait." She snaps her fingers. "Have him shackled and taken to my shuttle. Have a medical droid in attendance." With a stiff smile she says (as if for his approval): "We are not animals.
~ Chuck Wendig
One helmeted cop is flung from his vehicle. The other crawls out onto the hood of his speeder, opening fire with a pair of blasters—just as a hunk of stone cracks him in the helmet, knocking him to the ground.
~ Chuck Wendig
Let every tale be a cage match between you and something that scares you.
~ Chuck Wendig
He will literally kick my butt so hard I'll be tasting my own asshole for weeks.
~ Chuck Wendig