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Quotes About Confrontation

We can't turn our backs on this." "I know we can't. It's following us.
~ Chet Williamson
I was lying on the ground. I could feel my blood mixing with the dirt. And Reese said, 'You can stay up here and fuck the grizzly bears, puss.' And the goddamned thing is, when I finally was able to stand up, I was more scared of imaginary grizzly bears than I was of Reese. Although I'm sure a grizzly bear has better table manners. I just motivated myself the hell away, as fast as I could crawl. I'm not even sure there are grizzly bears around here, anyway.
~ Chet Williamson
How did I wind up with Reese? Maybe because I'd had a lot of guys who were all talk and nothing beyond. You know—if some junkie tried to knife us in a movie theater, my boyfriend would try to talk it over with the guy. Civilized behavior. And I'd be lying there with my trachea in my lap.
~ Chet Williamson
Jesus Christ." The fury on Nick's face was enough to send me reeling and he hit the table hard enough with his hand that it made the plates and the silverware on the table bounce and clatter. "You give me the names and approximate location of those men who gave you that ultimatum and I'll kill every goddamned one of them." I sighed before I said quietly. "I already did.
~ Cheyenne McCray
It's when I have to acknowledge the past and all of those nameless, faceless people I'd assassinated, that I unravel inside.
~ Cheyenne McCray
Take/Throw a Punch
~ Chicago Tribune
Hungarian...) the only tongue the devil respects.
~ Chico Buarque
Naquele dia entrei em sua casa com o propósito de acertar as contas e dar por encerrado aquele curso de merda. Mas antes de partir faria um pronunciamento em língua portuguesa, num português brasileiro e muito chulo, com palavras oxítonas terminadas em ão, e com nomes de árvores indígenas e pratos africanos que a apavorassem, uma linguagem que reduzisse seu húngaro a zero.
~ Chico Buarque
General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.
~ Chief Joseph
My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.
~ Simon Cowell
There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats.
~ H. L. Mencken
Break the fast, and you will be stronger to confront the enemy.
~ Habib Bourguiba
If anyone ever tells you that violence won't make you feel better, they're lying.
~ Hajime Kanzaka
I introduced his head to the corner of the railing.
~ Hajime Kanzaka
You know what I think of a guy who wags a finger at me and makes a tut-tut-tut noise? I think he's begging to lose a finger.
~ Hajime Kanzaka
understood what happened when men under extreme duress were given the latitude to express their dissatisfactions unchecked—how quickly a wrong, real or imagined, could magnify in men's minds, how a single misconstrued incident or comment could make its way through the ranks.
~ Hampton Sides
Durruti pasaba delante de los policías sin inmutarse. "Yo tengo tanto miedo como tu", dijo. "El miedo y el valor vienen juntos. A veces no sé dónde termina el uno y dónde termina el otro".
~ Hans Magnus Enzensberger
una victoria electoral de la izquierda habría inducido a los fascistas a tratar de subir al poder mediante el habitual golpe de Estado militar. En todo caso habría que enfrentarse a ellos con las armas en la mano. Los acontecimientos han confirmado la corrección de este cálculo; el análisis de los anarquistas era más realista que el de los políticos tradicionales.
~ Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Happy The price is wrong, bitch.
~ Happy Gilmore
Shoter magavin I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast. Happy Gilmore you eat pieces of shit for breakfast.
~ Happy Gilmore
The advantage of playing dumb is that it postpones the moment confrontation, when you acknowledge you're I opposite sides, when someone fires the first shot. If you're already at a disadvantage -- like for instance, Of your car's in neutral when you thought it was in reverse -- it gives you a chance to reach for a weapon.
~ Harley Jane Kozak
You're getting two C-notes and a one-way ticket. Make sure you never come back this way." He jerked back on her finger. She screamed. "You broke it!" "Your friend don't want to hear from you again, no how, capiche?" She sobbed, dizzy, ready to pass out. "Now when I say no how, he don't want to hear from any lawyer, either. You capiche that?
~ Harold Robbins
If you pay attention, you may find that it is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable, so you avoid doing the thing that will evoke fear and other disquieting emotions. Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.
~ Harriet Lerner
Action is powerful. Sometimes you can move past a fear quickly, if you are willing to act. When you avoid what you fear, your anxieties are apt to worsen over time.
~ Harriet Lerner