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Quotes About Confrontation

Never be afraid to speak your mind on relevant issues; good leaders stand for relevance and they are never afraid to face the facts head on. Bad leaders see the problems, close their eyes and do something else!
~ Israelmore Ayivor
To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.
~ Simon Van Booy
The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.
~ Wilson Mizner
By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity. "No," she said, her voice quivering with anger, "but I will write to your mother.
~ J. K. Rowling
People who thus set their lives against destruction have necessarily confronted in themselves the absurdity that they have recognized in their society.
~ Wendell Berry
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, Battles are lost in the same spirit In which they are won
~ Whalt Whitman
Never choose a battle; only fight if you cannot walk away.
~ Wilbur Smith
Magdalen drew further and further back. A twig from a tree near caught her cloak; she turned petulantly, broke it off, and threw it on the ground. What right have you to question me? she broke out on a sudden. Whether I like Frank, or whether I don't, what interest is it of yours? As she said the words, she abruptly stepped forward to pass her sister and return to the house.
~ Wilkie Collins
I started to my feet as suddenly as if he had struck me. If I had been a man, I would have knocked him down on the threshold of his own door, and have left his house, never on any earthly consideration to enter it again. But I was only a woman - and I loved his wife so dearly!
~ Wilkie Collins
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
~ William Blake
Cortana's eyes glowed as she bent forward. "Piss off.
~ William C. Dietz
I catch fire and find the reserves of courage and assertiveness to speak up. When that happens I get quite carried away. My blood gets hot my brow wet I become unbearably and unconscionably sarcastic and bellicose I am girded for a total showdown.
~ William F. Buckley Jr.
It's not four days ago I find a bastard squatting here, asking me if I read books. Like he would jump me with a book or something. Take me for a ride with the telephone directory.
~ William Faulkner
Guys, I'm gonna pretend like all of you are incapacitated or unconscious. And if none of you makes a move, I'll be leaving you to your own resources. Otherwise, this drone's detonating its onboard explosives. As the only one of us who's not physically present, I've got zero fucks to give about how that goes. Your call. [Conner]
~ William Gibson
No," said Madison, "not given the immediate future you're trying to keep us from.
~ William Gibson
You're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!
~ William Golding
So the last part, the bit we can all talk about, is kind of deciding on the fear. We've got to talk about this fear and decide there's nothing in it.
~ William Golding
Che idea, pensare che la Bestia fosse qualcosa che si potesse cacciare e uccidere! [...] Lo sapevi, no?… Che io sono una parte di te? Vieni vicino, vicino, vicino! che io sono la ragione per cui non c'è niente da fare? Per cui le cose vanno come vanno?
~ William Golding
Jack duraklay?p, çevresine bak?nd?. Yüzünü örten boya maskesinin arkas?nda, utançtan da kurtulmuÅŸtu, kiÅŸiliÄŸinin bilincinden de. Herkesle göz göze gelebiliyordu.
~ William Golding
Birinden korkunca ondan nefret edersiniz ama boyuna da düÅŸünüp durursunuz onu. Kendi kendinizi aldat?rs?n?z; asl?nda kötü deÄŸildir dersiniz. Ama onu görünce, t?pk? nefes darl???na tutulmuÅŸ gibi olursunuz, soluk alamazs?n?z.
~ William Golding
You shut up, you fat slug!
~ William Golding
Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
~ William Goldman