Quotes About Standoff

In the end I just let the dreams come and go, let whatever bliss or pain they brought roll through me. ...Time wears away hope like water wears away rock. As for faith, I remained in a standoff with Isis. But love, as Paul of Tarsus would say, is greater than hope and faith. It can survive without either. Love was all I had, and it would not go away. It would not die even though sometimes I wished it would.

Like many high-minded people, Wilson, when faced with opposition that he considered evil but which refused to yield to his arguments, felt no compunction about simply crossing his arms and refusing to play the game.

In the government's eyes, the Branch Davidians were a threat.

When rival worldviews are in play, it is not adaptation that is called for but confrontation: confrontation

Drop that or I'll blow ya straight to Jesus.

Every repetition of the choice only hardened the issue.

I have a red line against the Americans.

Tony Montana Say hello to my little friend

Mister, we deal in lead.

however, Greenspan remained firmly opposed.

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you.

I could see that if the standoff continued for at least a few more hours, lives would be saved, all of them or most of them. There would be no attack and the children and their parents

Father had not spoken up yet. My theory was he didn't know who to jump on first, the insulting Underdowns or his cussing wife, so he just stood there brewing like a coffeepot.

He exchanged a few words with Washio, who looked around and then pointed at me. I had the sudden sense that this was more attention from Murakami than I really wanted. I watched him nudge his two men. The three of them started moving toward me. Adrenaline dumped into my veins. I felt the surge. I looked around casually, searching for a weapon of convenience. There was nothing handy. They walked up and stood in front of me, three abreast, Murakami slightly in front of the other two.

Trying to address a perplexing problem: the reason or reasons for the nuclear standoff of the Cold War. I couldn't understand how belief systems could be so important to people that they were willing to risk the destruction of the world to protect them.

I shrugged, put my hands up, and turned around, my back to Taylor. Bondarchuk scuffed into an orthogonal position to my left, just far enough away that I couldn't jump him.

Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

The big man could no longer breathe. One of the other men started to rise. Win leveled his gun at the man's head. "Important note," Win said. "I'm not big on warning shots." The

Ali gestured with her eyes for me to look right. I followed the gesture to Coach Bobby. "Don't you dare fight him," she said. "He challenged me," I said. "The bigger man steps away." "In the movies maybe. In places filled with pixie dust and Easter Bunnies and pretty fairies. But in real life, the man who steps away is considered a big-time wuss.

We've seen, in Washington, both sides say they don't want to give up much of anything.

Peter said, his voice as dry as burnt toast. "Can we leave?"  Of course they couldn't leave. Not before she'd crossed the room, planted herself in front

Never," he spat out, "kick a man who is pointing a gun at you.

Well?" the man shouted. "With or against?" No one replied, and