Quotes About Confrontation

Halt here! Now! By order of the Lord Dragon! Else he'll channel your head into your belly and feed you your own feet for breakfast!

Who are you that addresses me so? Hide your face from me, stranger. I had a son, once, with a face like that. I do not wish to see it on a killer.

Rand thrust his hands high and channeled. "I am the Dragon Reborn!" The words boomed across the square, amplified by Air and Fire, and flames shot up from his hands a hundred feet. Behind him, the Asha'man filled the sky with balls of fire streaking in every direction. All save Dashiva, who made blue lightnings crackle in a jagged web above the square.

No," he said, softly, yet more firmly. More dangerous. "I will not see another person chained by your foul leashes." "Foul? They are the only way to deal with those who can channel!" "We have survived without them for centuries." "And you have—" "This is not a point I will concede," al'Thor said.

criminal law, a field that presented many of the same conditions and offered many of the same rewards as topflight athletics. It had the same elements of intense preparation and concentration, of confrontation in a circumscribed arena, where passion and aggression were bound by elaborate rules, of the final decision, and the emotional charge that went with it: won, lost, guilty, not guilty.

Now get the fuck up off the ground so I can put you in it... like a coffin. Because you'll be fucking dead after I kill you, you fucking asshole.

Well, Thomas if you're not going to help, why'd you come down here (Andrea)? So I could cut off your head.

I have always believed that firing someone or asking for a resignation should be carried out face-to-face by the one making the decision. (The only two presidents I had worked for who were willing to do this were Ford and Carter.)

this cat-and-mouse could not last forever, and he also knew that when you are the mouse you don't have much to say about it to the cat.

Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts.

they stay busy as a way of avoiding something they do not want to face.

They're busy, and they stay busy as a way of avoiding something they do not want to face.

Yet deep down they know they are avoiding something important.

It's a very bad habit to put off disagreeable things...

You could not fence with an antagonist who met rapier thrust with blow of battle axe.

Non passa mai, per gli uomini e le nazioni, il tempo di rendersi ridicoli e venire alle mani.

the unfortunate Matthew was left to do that which was harder for him than bearding a lion in its den—walk up to a girl—a strange girl—an orphan girl—and demand of her why she wasn't a boy.

Why didn't you tell her it was no business of hers?" said Eben angrily. "Old Flora Jane had better mind her own business.

The day never goes by for men and nations to make asses of themselves and take to the fists.

Now that the crisis had come she found herself able to confront it coolly - nay, more, to take a curious interest in it under all her secret fear and shame, as if some part of her had detached itself from the rest and was interestingly absorbing impressions and analyzing motives and describing settings.

For God's sake, no." Brenda's voice is sharp. "I told you, he never told me about any fifty thousand. What are you implying here? You want to make me out as some kind of slut? A whore? You want the jury to think that Dagou tried to pay me to move in with him?

You'd be surprised how many divorces start with "I smelled the bitch on him.

He had not stayed, but when he had gone, he hadn't fought, either. He had done nothing but ride twice over the same stretch of prairie, while death had come to both camps.

What if I hit the man?" Newt said. "That's his worry," Call said. "Not letting him ride away is your worry." They