Quotes About Confrontation

they were caught between the river and a bog.

The rivals met in a battle lasting three hours.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." Our generation has mastered the art of looking the other way when evil presents its face of terror and death.

Only a change in our way of life would heal the sickness of our age — and this is only likely to happen when disaster confronts us.

Fucking men.

Elliot told me that bigots could be "slippery" if you accused them outright.

Pinche pendejo chimuelo!

Danny knew what Armando would say: "You don't try to make peace with assholes," or words to that effect

This ends now, gunslinger. Draw your weapon.

You're fortunate I've already beaten someone else to death today, gunslinger. I have a schedule to keep.

crossroads about the same time tomorrow. Ashton spent a few moments chattering about her excuse for being away from Mont Royal; it also involved staying with a friend, a nonexistent one. Madeline heard Ashton's voice, but few of the words registered. The three women crowded into the chaise, Ashton in the middle. It was evident to Madeline that Orry's sister didn't like squeezing against a Negress, but she'd just have to put up with it.

In my private apocalypse he will be impaled upon his own nightstick.

The first person who says anything unpleasant will get a swift kick in the ass.

Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?

One of these days I'm gonna beat him in the face with the butt of my service revolver until an eyeball pops out. These are the thoughts that keep me happy.

Nancy cut him off. "Larry wouldn't let her. We

Whatever God thought about it, the old dictator's ghost was not so easily exorcized after all.

We want to annoy the whenever we can. The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

You want one civil war, brah?

It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action.

The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will become. It is the experience of things that matters, the confrontation with things.

In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.

To put failure behind you, face up to it.