Quotes About Confrontation

I fought against her, trying to mount some kind of defense, but it was like fighting Dimitri on crack.

After killing hundreds of American and British soldiers during TORCH, the French had failed to so much as scratch a single German invader.

I am beginning to think that the word "no," in his mind, registers as, Well, go ahead and do whatever you want to do. He backed straight away, pulling, and the collar slipped over his head. I tried to grab him by the scruff of the neck, but he evaded me and leapt back onto the bed, and burrowed under the blanket till he was just a big, growling lump. He is an outside dog, he rolls in mule manure. It wasn't that I would have to change the bed. I might have to burn it.

Does he bite?" the driver asked. "He even bites me," I said. He picked a fight with whatever the world brought him, and that day it happened to be a Lincoln. I don't think he would have hurt the driver, but he sure would have messed up a nice suit. The next week he did it again, and the next.

Any attempt to attack, defend, or withdraw will work against you. Instead, you must restrain these reactive tendencies, find the courage to stand your ground, and then step forward in the face of this determined opposition.

Predators only understand violence: either accept it or return the favor.

You reached out of nowhere and took her. I will reach into nothing and find you. You're here. I know you're here. I can feel you. I can smell you. We're coming for you. One by one, Sydowski stared at the men

How does it feel to be helpless, Led? To depend on something that fails you? There's no more running from who you are; no one to hold you together anymore. You're alone now-- The ghost of Tokyo has come for you all.

Have we forgotten that what we tolerate, we empower? Silence is communication! Silence communicates agreement and grants permission. We enable deception when we refuse to confront the lies. Silence is not an option!

Right," Sadie said. "And Set will just stand there calmly while I read him to death.

The killer had challenged her. And Ellie Reeves did not back down from a challenge

I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Don't charge the mound. Once you agree to fight, you lost already. Don't start none, won't be none.

I was too scared to talk, but I was more scared to not talk.

Told me that when you bury emotions like that, you're only pissing them off ... making them stronger, because you're burying them alive. They don't like that, and one day they'll make sure that you don't like it either.

with such skill that he approached the Indian camp within fifty yards before he was noticed. The Indians fired immediately upon Mr. Cody and Sergeant Foley. Mr. Cody killed one Indian; two

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.

Crush the enemy" is a key strategic tenet of Sun-tzu, the fourth-century-B.C. author of The Art of War. The idea is simple: Your enemies wish you ill.

Instead of internalizing a bad situation, externalize it and face your enemy. It is the only way out.

The tragedy of Nixon was that he had immense political talent and intelligence; if only he had also possessed the ability to look within and measure the darker sides to his character. It is the tragedy that confronts us all to the extent that we remain in deep denial.

frente a los agresivos, retírate, déjalos conseguir sus pequeñas victorias.

Comprenda que, si bien la audacia no es natural, tampoco lo es la timidez. Ésta no es sino un hábito adquirido, adoptado a partir de un deseo de evitar conflictos. Si la timidez lo domina, extírpela.

Everything in life conspires to push you into the center, and not just politically. The center is the realm of compromise. Getting along with other people is an important skill to have, but it comes with a danger: by always seeking the path of least resistance, the path of conciliation, you forget who you are, and you sink into the center with everyone else. Instead see yourself as a fighter, an outsider surrounded by enemies. Constant battle will keep you strong and alert.