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Quotes About Confrontation

Come, I tell you. You have chattered enough about corruption. Now you shall look on it face to face!
~ Oscar Wilde
What most people don't understand about lawyers is that they're all scared shitless to actually fight with one another.
~ Oscar Zeta Acosta
Stand on your laigs you polecat, and admit you're a liar!
~ Owen Wister
Yeah, fucknuts, its you. You're me. To get into this place, You're gonna have to kill me. Which is not gonna happen 'cause I'm not so cool with dying. What is gonna happen is that i'm gonna kick your ass and kill you dead.
~ P.C. Cast
Kayla Robinson, if you don't shut up I'll fly down there and suck every last bit of blood from your stupid cheating cow body!
~ P.C. Cast
She frowned at him. That sounds vaguely like a threat. It's not vague and it's not a threat. It's clearly blackmail.
~ P.C. Cast
Did you just curse? Isn't 'hell' - she air quoted - a cursed word? How 'bout you go straight there and see?
~ P.C. Cast
I demand to know who did this to my man's face.-Aphrodite Lafonte
~ P.C. Cast
The exquisite code of politeness of the Woosters prevented me clipping her one on the ear-hole, but I would have given a shilling to be able to do it. There seemed to me something deliberately fat-headed in the way she persisted in missing the gist.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Lady Constance's lips tightened, and a moment passed during which it seemed always a fifty-fifty chance that a handsome silver ink-pot would fly through the air in the direction of her brother's head.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Osbert Mulliner was simply unequal to the task of tackling cavemen.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The thing that poisons life for gunmen and sometimes makes them wonder moodily if it is worth-while going on is this tendency of the outside public to butt in at inconvenient moments. Whenever you settle some business dispute with a commercial competitor by means of your sub-machine gun, it always turns out that there was some officious witness passing at the time, and there you are, with a new problem confronting you.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
A left jab from him had all the majesty of a formal declaration of war.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Tut!' I said. 'What did you say?' 'I said Tut!' 'Say it once again, and I'll biff you where you stand. I've enough to endure without being tutted at.
~ P.G.Wodehouse
When I got the chance I asked them a slew of questions. They offered to burn me; it was the only thing they knew.
~ Pablo Neruda
She looked resentfully at Mr. Cann. It would, she was sure, have been difficult enough to persuade him, in spite of his protestations, to leave the house alive. Dead, he was going to be far more trouble.
~ Pamela Branch
You broke the Man Code, dude. 'No man shall knowingly and with malice aforethought kick another man in the nuts.' Okay, so I kicked him in the nuts. The little fucker was fleeing the scene of a crime where he'd pointed a weapon at my buddies. [from short story Beer Run at the end of Skin Deep]
~ Pamela Clare
Moral: Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Moral: Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you. "Another
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
My mother once tried to frighten me with an appalling story of a ghost in a dark chamber. I went there immediately, and expressed my disappointment at having missed the ghost. Mother never told me another horror tale. Moral: Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you. "Another
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
My mother once tried to frighten me with an appalling story of a ghost in a dark chamber. I went there immediately, and expressed my disappointment at having missed the ghost. Mother never told me another horror tale. Moral: Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
I will tell you a few—each one with a moral!" Sri Yukteswar's eyes twinkled with his warning. "My mother once tried to frighten me with an appalling story of a ghost in a dark chamber. I went there immediately, and expressed my disappointment at having missed the ghost. Mother never told me another horror-tale. Moral: Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Sensing that Mrs. Brown was preparing to launch a verbal grenade but not knowing exactly how to divert the attack, I simply shrugged my shoulders and prepared for the worst.
~ Pat Conroy
High performance teams master the art of straight talk. They have learned how to confront issues and address behaviors without attacking or provoking one another.
~ Pat MacMillan