Quotes About Standoff

They came three times for the old man. At first it was just the Sheriff and Gifford. They were one foot up the porch steps when he swung the door open and threw down on them and they could see the mule ears of the old shotgun laid back viciously along the locks. They turned and went back down the yard, not saying anything or even looking back, and the old man closed the door behind them.

school, she refused to sign the adoption papers. The standoff lasted weeks, even after the baby had settled into the

Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!

Tell them to drop their guns and fuck off out of my way. --Allow him to-- I clamp my arm tight. --That's not what I said. She gets it right this time. --Drop your guns and fuck off out of his way. They drop their guns and fuck off out of my way.

Reacher said, "So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist.

You want me dead? Next time, pretend to be a man and come at me yourself. Don't get someone else to do it for you." Duncan let go of Collier's arm, got to his feet, and stared down the men around them. "You boys have something you want to say?

if you so much as move a eyelash, Barkley, I'm going to blow your guts all over this country-side!

Trouble is brewing in Wind River. The Irish and Chinese are up in arms, and the friendly Shoshone stand accused of stealing cattle. Marshal Cole Tyler sets out to track down the saboteurs-lighting a fuse that will set off a bloody massacre.

Carmen? I can hear her release the safety on her Glock when I get within two feet of her.

Iran has attacked oil fields and shot down a U.S. drone - all while we stood by.

He did," I said. "But I told him he'd just have to shoot me.

Look, you runny-nosed little runt. You're going to back off right now, or I'm going to rip that safety pin out of your nose and pin your mouth shut.

Or perhaps the best that can be hoped for—as a play on the "MAD" (mutually assured destruction) of the U.S.-Soviet nuclear standoff in the Cold War years—may be "MAA," "mutually assured ambiguity." But seeking to address issues in a multilateral framework, with a critical role for ASEAN, would help modulate the conviction that the South China Sea is fundamentally a standoff between China and the United States.

No, this is pretty much the same version I read," I said, because it felt too damn late to back down. I imagine that from time to time some similar situation has led governments to declare war." pg.57

The barn doors are open, and the horses are running out because we've got guns all over the place. It's basically a cold war for individuals: you've got a nuclear bomb, and I've got a nuclear bomb, and the only thing stopping us from using them is the fact we both have them.

The only thing this guy responded to was a firm line drawn in the sand. I just looked at him and said, "Cross this and we'll be having radio person medium rare for dinner.

Never leave an enemy standing.

When the position is such that neither side will gain by making the first move, it is called temporising ground.

Leave him alone! Debbie shouted. Shut up, please, or I'll kill you, Mr Tiny replied.

A woman stood between them holding a sizzling skillet in her hand. She was a big-boned, full-fleshed, red-haired woman of perhaps twenty-eight, handsome in a rather brutal, sloppy way.

had watched the shoot-out. "Ten

a few well-placed shots would either kill them or drive them back inside.

Well, you gonna pull them pistols or whistle Dixie?

In Waco, once best known for the Branch Davidian standoff between David Koresh and the ATF, Chip and Joanna have created a new cult, one of affordable design.