Quotes About Confrontation

You can take him, right? he asks a couple minutes later. I go, Are you kidding? You can't just fight Blade, you have to fight his gang, too. You mean you couldn't take him and I was giving him lip?

Nevertheless, this too is a myth. The Catholic Church actually thrives on Protestant competition and is far more successful and effective when forced to confront it.

Enemies can be confronted only if they are first brought to earth. And that means bringing them to earth somewhere, as the Americans brought al-Qa'eda to earth in Afghanistan. Globalization may have made it harder to defend ourselves against terrorist assaults, but we are nevertheless defending territory, the place where we are, and hunting down our enemies in the place where they are.

We fought.' 'A duel?' 'Nothing that formal. A simultaneous decision to murder one another is more like it.

Then the fit hit the Shan.

How long will you plague me, brother? How far must I go to bring it to an end between us?

All right. You wanted me," I stated, "and now you have me, heaven help you.

He was staring at me as he advanced, no special expression on that face so like my own.

Sorry about the horse," he said. "I was aiming at you.

Something big and batlike swooped through the tunnel of his lights and was gone. He ignored its passage. Five minutes later it made a second pass, this time much closer, and he fired a magnesium flare. A black shape, perhaps forty feet across, was illuminated, and he gave it two five-second bursts from the fifty-calibers. It fell to the ground and did not return again. To the squares, this was Damnation Alley. To Hell Tanner, this was still the parking lot.

I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.

Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from

Because Conway persisted in maligning Washington, he was summoned to the dueling ground by General John Cadwalader, who fired a ball through Conway's mouth that came out the back of his head. Cadwalader showed no regret. "I have stopped the damned rascal's lying tongue at any rate," he observed as his opponent lay in agony on the ground.

When the couple rode by the shore one day, John became so enraged at Fidelia that he drove their carriage straight into Chesapeake Bay. When Fidelia asked where he was going, John replied with a sneer, "To hell, Madam." To which she retorted boldly, "Drive on, sir.

Mills lashed out at Barbot as "an impertinent puppy"—the sort of fighting words that prompted duels.

Where Pierpont had the fortitude to confront Junius, Jack silently hoped for approval and leaned on his mother for emotional support.

When they didn't flinch, Rockefeller launched an all-out attack.

At this point, Gates decided to wipe out Biggar's influence forever.

An unprovoked head butt is like bringing a sawed-off shotgun to a knife fight.

if you can't acquaint an opponent with reason, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk.

War isn't about dying for your country. It's about making the enemy die for his." Gen. George S. Patton

Never hit a woman unless she's trying to kill you.

You see four guys bunched on a corner waiting for you, you either run like hell in the opposite direction without hesitation, or you keep on walking without slowing down or speeding up or breaking stride...Truth is, it's smarter to run. The best fight is the one you don't have. But I have never claimed to be smart. Just obstinate, and occasionally bad-tempered. Some guys kick cats. I keep walking. - Jack Reacher

Attacking me was like pushing open a forbidden door. What waited on the other side was his problem.