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Quotes About Altercation

If you can hit a guy once, you can hit him twice.
~ Charles Bukowski
I broke two knuckles in my right hand when I gave Jean-Claude Van Damme an attitude adjustment. I got nothing except a medical bill.
~ Chuck Zito
You know," Cecily said, "you really didn't have to throw that man through the window.
~ Cassandra Clare
EC3 began as a spoiled brat, and I felt it was important for the fans to be able to relate to the character - not as themselves but as someone they may have encountered in their lives and really just want to sock square in the face.
~ Ethan Carter III
since you're asking me shit that's none of your business—what happened to your eye? Your eye is all fucked up. You look like shit." "I got punched in the face," Carney said. "Oh, that happens to me all the time
~ Colson Whitehead
slapped him so hard his head smacked against the window we were standing in front of.
~ James Patterson
beaten he was almost unrecognizable.
~ Tilly Bagshawe
I introduced his head to the corner of the railing.
~ Hajime Kanzaka
How about we cut a hole in your bedspread and punch your head through it," Lula said. "That should be about your size.
~ Janet Evanovich
The result is sometimes an ugly display of old lady bitch slapping.
~ Janet Evanovich
Besides, I punched him in the eye.
~ Jasper Fforde
As a frequent rider of the subway myself, I cannot count the number of times I have had to personally intercede in a physical or verbal altercation, whether on the platform or in a subway car.
~ Eric Adams
I would beat you to crap if you didn't already look like it
~ Jim Butcher
Fighting Dad's not a fight. Fighting dad is, "Hi, you've just instigated your own mugging! Come on down!"
~ Christopher Titus
But abuse is not a battle that you win by being better at expressing yourself. You win it by being better at sarcasm, put-downs, twisting everything around backward, and using other tactics of control—an arena in which my clients win hands down over their partners, just as they do in a violent altercation. Who can beat an abuser at his own game?
~ Unknown
I might have been in a bar fight once, but if I hit anyone, it was with a bottle of fine cabernet.
~ Michael Koryta
I'd heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word "utilize" instead of "use.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Wilson took three quick steps, bringing him right up to the interloper, and swung a fist.
~ Peter F. Hamilton