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Quotes About Confrontation

The whole class yells at Rachel/Rachelle in the hall. That's what you get for speaking up.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
We're all afraid to talk about what stares at us from the dark.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting it. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
If you touch me, I'll cram your nose into your brain with the heel of my hand.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
but having an entire policy of 'Us Good, Them Bad' does little more than create a magnet for trouble-makers.
~ Laurie R. King
The response to a festering sore was not to extol its virtues, but to lance the thing and let the poison bleed out.
~ Laurie R. King
Well, you got me there, I could have said. You're right, I broke the rules, I didn't play fair. And you know what? Fuck you.
~ Lawrence Block
Know this. If you're here to hurt my ship, or my crew, I will make sure you truly do know sufferi
~ Kiersten Fay, Demon Possession
Dammit, Gage. What the hell were you thinking?""I wasn't, " he shouts. "I was upset she wanted to stay, and I lost it."Ethan scoffs. "Yeah, you did.""I'm an idiot.""Yeah, you are.""Shut up.
~ Laura Kreitzer, Burning Falls
Truth or dare...truth ain't fair. Marshal Robert Quantrell - Belle Starr: Dead Man's Hand (work in progress)
~ Belinda McBride
I swear to Vishnu, if this doesn't work, I'm going to stab you in the throat with a Pipette.
~ Kyoko M., Of Cinder and Bone
You know what all the plutonium can buy me?" "Yeah it'll buy you one hell of a funeral!" Angel says angrily to man who was behind everything!
~ Angel Ramon Medina
It took me a beat down to execute you Angel but the pleasure will be all mines! - Warden Pinnacle From the book Framed: The Second Book Of The Thousand Years War.
~ Angel Ramon Medina
Nobody ever kills everybody anywhere, big man. Somebody always gets away.
~ Henry V. O'Neil, Glory Main
Let them come. We've got helicopters, tanks, jets, and big guns. We've got armies of robots. What do they have but their stench and the squalor they live in?
~ Michael Monroe, Afterlife
I will kick you in the nuts and you will smile and like it.
~ CM Punk
Abe shook his head, and now the smile was gone altogether. "That's not the reason either. Don't lie to me little girl." I felt my hackles going up. "And don't interrogate me, old man.
~ Richelle Mead
You can't hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it.
~ Spiro T. Agnew
Are you afraid of me? Uh... yes.' The smile stayed fixed in place. 'You should be. You locked me in a refrigerator truck with three dead people. Sooner or later I'm going to get you for it.
~ Janet Evanovich
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Although these domains appear to be remote from each other, the themes underlying anger and hatred in close relationships appear to be similar to those manifested by antagonistic groups and nations. The overreactions of friends, associates, and marital partners to presumed wrongs and offenses are paralleled by the hostile responses of people in confrontation with members of different religious, ethnic, or racial groups.
~ AARON T. BECK
you can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors
~ Abraham Lincoln
Earp forced Kowalsky into a back room, pulled out a revolver, and told the lawyer to get ready to meet his maker. Kowalsky's jowly face dropped onto his chest and he dozed off. Earp stormed from the room, saying, "What can you do with a man who goes to sleep just when you're going to kill him!
~ Adam Hochschild
Whenever Mosley was heckled at one of his rallies, he stopped speaking and searchlights focused on the heckler as jackbooted men beat him and then threw him out of the hall.
~ Adam Hochschild