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Quotes About Confrontation

We run the risk of someday seeing our native population collapse and disappear," fretfully declared the permanent committee of the National Colonial Congress of Belgium that year. "So that we will find ourselves confronted with a kind of desert.
~ Adam Hochschild
you know what doesn't work when people are tasering you? It's shouting 'Stop tasering me.' If they're tasering you already, they won't stop because you ask them to.
~ Adam Rex
In lieu of Tasers, you'll have to hit me. Hard as you can. Then maybe some kind of fight-or-flight response will kick in and I'll turn into a bat to get away from you. Fight or flight. Yes. Only half of that is flight.
~ Adam Rex
It behoves us all to confront racism wherever we find it, especially when it is covert or normalised in stereotypes and myth, and science is a weapon in that contest. The academic and political activist Angela Davis said that 'in a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
~ Adam Rutherford
To quote Bugs Bunny, it's mongoose season, and you're the fucking mongoose.
~ Adrian McKinty
THE WOLF AND THE LAMB A Wolf came upon a Lamb straying from the flock
~ Aesop
Da bi vidjeli smrt neprijatelja, neki su spremni vidjeti i vlastitu.
~ Aesop
YOU'RE IN MY MOUTH, I said. GET OUT OF MY MOUTH.
~ Aimee Bender
Being snappy is a symptom of an argument we forgot to have some way back.
~ Alain de Botton
We are so impressed by honesty that we forget the virtues of politeness; a desire not always to confront people we care about with the full, hurtful aspects of our nature.
~ Alain de Botton
You try kicking some butts here and they'll eat your leg right off.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Eying him, Finn felt he knew the type if not the man. His only fear then was that the man might shoot first and ask questions later. Thankfully, he did not.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Husband and wife stood regarding each other for the first time in years. Amid the smoke and drifting embers, neither said a word. Emerging from behind the figure in the portal, C-3PO walked out into the scorched field to confront the motionless droid beside Han.
~ Alan Dean Foster
His only fear then was that the man might shoot first and ask questions later. Thankfully, he did not.
~ Alan Dean Foster
That weapon—is mine." Finn all but snarled his reply. "Come and get it.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Han Solo," came the clipped voice of the gang leader, "you are a dead man.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Alan Dean Foster
~ You shot first.
confronted by seven tall, cloaked figures, dark and foreboding, all armed.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist.
~ Alan Moore
They offered you a choice between the death of your principles and the death of your body. You said you'd rather die. You faced the fear of your own death, and you were calm and still.
~ Alan Moore
Nite-Owl: Rorschach...? Rorschach, wait! Where are you going? This is too big to be hard-assed about! We have to compromise! Rorschach: No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.
~ Alan Moore
None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me!
~ Alan Moore
Rut emerged with a goddamn scimitar
~ Derek Landy
Where's my black top?" "I put it in the wash." "It was clean." "It had blood on it." "Yeah, but not mine.
~ Derek Landy