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Quotes About Confrontation

Too violent, you say? Shut up or I'll break your legs.
~ Dave Barry
IF YOU COME NEAR THIS BOAT, I WILL CUT OFF HIS HEAD, D'YOU UNDERSTAND, SAVAGES?
~ Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Agree with an idiot and you're only one step away from turning into one yourself.
~ Unknown
Next to the photo was a frown button that said "We denounce the Central Guatemalan Security Forces." Mae hesitated briefly, knowing the gravity of what she was about to do—to come out against these rapists and murderers—but she needed to make a stand. She pushed the button.
~ Dave Eggers
For years I feared the opening of every elevator, half-convinced that from the opened doors would come a bullet, for me, shot by a man in a tan trenchcoat. I have no idea why I feared this, expected it to happen. I even knew how I would react to this bullet coming from the elevator door, what word I would say. That word was: Finally.
~ Dave Eggers
Carol turned around quickly as if stifling an urge to lunge at Max. He turned back to Max, straining to appear genial. Okay, he said, but will you come over here and put your head in my mouth again? Max continued to back up, No, Carol. I don't want to right now.
~ Dave Eggers
Now the end is going to come - in one fashion or another, Bines said, softly, and again he turned to Ralphie and smiled. We all know, the end will come. You either face your hunters or run from them.
~ David Adams Richards
and wind whispered in the porch. Didn't I tell my father I would kill him? And should I? I searched the house. I heard a noise and went into
~ David Adams Richards
I don't believe in ghosts or magic." "I don't either, Mary. But I do know one thing." "What's that?" "That this guy is not going to get away.
~ David Baldacci
knew there were guys inside waiting to kill you. He held the phone in front of the reader
~ David Baldacci
cut there. He instantly knew what Patti had done.
~ David Baldacci
The motorcades drifted down the street with Canadian police providing the traffic security. There were a number of Canadian Mounties on their horses; they looked resplendent in their red uniforms. But they were also brightly colored sitting ducks when it came to an actual armed confrontation.
~ David Baldacci
Rogers raised a fist to deliver a blow to the head that would have almost certainly killed the man. The spot on his head was burning like somebody had set it on fire with an acetylene torch.
~ David Baldacci
Montgomery dude said he killed my parents.
~ David Baldacci
to the left, shattering the glass on the door leading to the train car in front of them. She gripped the flash-bang, engaged it, and threw it through the opening. She whirled and shot out the glass in the window to the rear. The bullet was followed by the second flash-bang, which Robie tossed through the new opening.
~ David Baldacci
You're going down this time, Isabel Kabra. - Dan
~ David Baldacci
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. David Bowie
~ David Bowie
Shoot you down. Bang! Bang! - Velvet Goldmine
~ David Bowie
When you confront the monster you fear the most, you'll defeat your fears.
~ David D. Burns
When you confront the monster you
~ David D. Burns
I made some more threats. I've got this big knife back here. He poked his thumb over his shoulder. It attracts a lot of attention sometimes.
~ David Eddings
Refusing to talk about something wouldn't make it go away. If it was there, it was there, and no amount of verbal acrobatics could make it go away.
~ David Eddings
Callers who even more unconsciously blemish-scanned or nostril-explored looked up to find horrified expressions on the video-faces at the other end. All of which resulted in videophonic stress.
~ David Foster Wallace
You'd be doing us both a favor.' 'This drives me bats. You know this drives me bats.' Orin and Hal's term for this routine is Politeness Roulette. This Moms-thing that makes you hate yourself for telling her the truth about any kind of problem because of what the consequences will be for her. It's like to report any sort of need or problem is to mug her.
~ David Foster Wallace