#Confrontation Quotes

“Never run away from anything. Never!”

“One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”

“Reality in strong doses frightens.”

“I looked up and all I saw was blue lights. If I die tonight, I'm dying in a gun fight.”

“True friends stab you in the front.”

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”

“Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred.But here is not a question of what's sacred;Rather of what to face or run away from.I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.”

“The frontiers are not east or west, north or south; but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be a neighbor, there is anunsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, farther still, between him and it. Let him build himself a log house with the bark on where he is, fronting IT, and wage there an Old French war for seven or seventy years, with Indians and Rangers, or whatever else may come between him and the reality, and save his scalp if he can.”

“If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.”

“Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.”

“If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them!”

“In waking a tiger, use a long stick.”

“Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.”

“Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.”

“People will hate you for speaking the truth, but you've gotta learn to stand up to them, so don't be offended if I say something you don't like.”

“Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?”

“A sermon often does a man most good when it makes him most angry. Those people who walk down the aisles and say, "I will never hear that man again," very often have an arrow rankling in their breast.”

“The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.”