Quotes About Confrontation

She wanted to tell him that whatever happened, whatever they chose, one day they would have to come awake, everyone would have to stand up and confront themselves and realize that it wasn't the Party that made them do it. One day, they would be alone with their actions.

You think that the things that matter are more difficult than words - to retreat from a confrontation, for instance, to work at changing something, truly changing something." She lifted her hand toward the bodies and the tanks. "Ai-ming, you're studying history to prepare for the examinations. What if revolution and violence are the only way?

She wanted to tell them that whatever happened, whatever they chose, one day they would have to come awake, everyone would have to stand up and confront themselves and realize it wasn't the party that made them do it. One day, they would be alone with their actions.

When we turn away from evidence that seems relatively straightforward to others we are using denial.

Afterwards, when Agamemnon would ask him when he would confront the prince of Troy, he would smile his most guileless, maddening smile. "What has Hector ever done to me?

Achilles makes a sound like choking. "There are no bargains between lions and men. I will kill you and eat you raw." His spearpoint flies in a dark whirlwind, bright as the evening-star, to catch the hollow at Hector's throat.

I did nothing to prepare. If I was not ready now, when would I be? I did not even walk up to the peak. He could come here, upon my yellow sands, and face me where I stood. "Father", I said, into the air, "I would speak with you.

I am no coward". My voice rose, and my skin went hoy. "Your father thinks you are" His words were deliberate, as if he were savoring them. "I heard him tell my father so." "He did not" But I knew he had.

Afterwards, when Agamemnon would ask him when he would confront the prince of Troy, he would smile his most guileless, maddening smile.

I had found a way through the endless corridors of his pride and fury.

I leaned over and slapped his face sideways and backhanded it back to center position. Manners, I said.

He was back at me like a cat, and he swung a hard chunk of wood from one of the smashed chairs. I caught the first one on the shoulder and I cleverly caught the next one right over the left ear. It broke a big white bell in my head, and he side-stepped, grunting for breath, and let me go down. I landed on my side, and he punted me in the belly like Groza trying for one from the mid-field stripe.

You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war.

After a leisurely slide into second, Joe bounced to his feet, looked at Marichal, shrugged, smiled, and spread his arms as if to say, You throw at me, I'll make you pay.

Sistrunk looked angrily at Lettie and said, "I'm allowed to be paid for my time and expenses, plus there is the matter of the loans. When can I expect the money?" "In due course," Jake said. "I want it now." "Well, you're not getting it now." "Then I'll sue." "Fine. I'll defend." "And I'll preside," Judge Atlee said. "I'll give you a trial date in about four years.

Pointing the finger at Ross Bannick was a terrifying act, not because she was afraid of being wrong, but because she feared the man himself.

Go where?" Todd asked, rubbing his eyes. "To jail, ass face. Let's go.

He felt like his victims were now crawling out of their graves and lining up, zombie-like, to come after him. He was living in a state of stunned disbelief, his thoughts a mush of rampant flashes, his debates raging over strategies that changed by the hour.

I've killed a lot of men, Preacher, all brave soldiers on the field. You're the first coward." "Pete, no, no!" Dexter said, raising his hands and falling back into his chair, eyes wide and mouth open. "If it's about Liza, I can explain. No, Pete!

Turning to Darnley, she demanded, "Why have you caused to do this wicked deed to me

She ordered him to surrender, and when he prevaricated, she sent spies to Strathbogie to arrest him

the Earl of Atholl's men and those of the Laird of Tullibardine cried out, "Burn the whore!

was a slap in the face for Mary by her own side.

when he started for the fourth, Mary cut him off. In a clear and unwavering voice