Quotes About Confrontation

I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five?

Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?

Two unarmed men against six loaded for bear. We need to even the odds." "Got a plan?" asked Giordino. "I certainly do." Giordino gave the little man with the academic, nerdy look a bemused stare. "Is it evil, rotten, and sneaky?" Gunn nodded, with an impish grin. "All that, and more."   THE

To resist was fatal, and it was impossible to fly. —EDWARD GIBBON,

If he turned and ran, the border would follow, and the moment he turned around, there, one step behind him would be Mexico, staring him down with those eyes -

Cornwallis voiced his lament that even if he destroyed all the men in America, he'd still have the women to contend with.

quarrel with Yeremi at the time, still Chigirin

All is war.

Ik kijk door de halfgeopende jaloezieën. Ik zie een schim rond het huis van de buren waren. De schim van de man die ik tevoren al eens gezien heb in de tuin van de buren. (...) Ik open m'n raam en ik roep, niet al te luid: 'Ik ga nu de politie bellen.' De schim verstijft. Ik blijf roepen: 'Ik ga nu de politie bellen. Ik ga nu de politie bellen. Ik ga nu de politie bellen. Ik ga nu de politie bellen. Ik ga nu de politie bellen.' De man is weggevlucht uit de tuin.

to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.

She became aware of his hands, moving up both sides of her, sliding up from her waist to her rib cage. Bad news. Instinctively she knew that it was "either-or." Either she opened her mouth and let the mad tongue in--or he was going to, sure as God made little apples, grab her little apples. The choice, she knew, was hers--for he lingered there, simultaneously, in both areas of combat, as if to say, "You have five seconds, take your pick.

He had never refused to confront any of his wife's facets, however hurtful or confusing he found them.

They all fired into the air, no doubt about it, said the old man with the fur cap, but it was the air that happened to be in people's lung.

With the suggestion of a compromise Gawaine mustered up enough courage to speak. "What will you do if I surrender?" he asked. "Why, I'll eat you," said the dragon. "And if I don't surrender?" "I'll eat you just the same.

I musn't run away.

Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight, But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right.

If a man spoke to you in that tone, you'd invite him to step outside and ask someone to hold your coat." 378

I think, if you're going to kill a man, do it. Don't write him a letter about it. Don't bluster and threaten and put him on his guard.

You . . . person," he says; and again, "you nobody from Hell, you whore-spawn, you cluster of evil, you lawyer.

But what would happen … I mean, what would be so awful … if they did meet up?" "Why, it would be like the West," Samira said. "There would be harassment. People would be all the time having love affair.

I went back to the door of Georges's study and pushed it open. He and Camille were sitting at either side of the empty fireplace, not speaking, just staring into each other's faces. "Am I interrupting you?" "No," Camille said, "we were just staring into each other's faces. I hope you weren't discomfitted by what you heard when you were listening at the door just now?

Once you have exhausted the process of negotiation and compromise, once you have fixed on the destruction of an enemy, that destruction must be swift and it must be perfect.

I tell you, Cromwell, you've got face, coming here." "My lord — you sent for me." "Did I?" Norfolk looks alarmed. "It's come to that?

Stafford.' He backs the stranger into the light. When he sees his face, not