#fights

Why would anyone want to fight Henry?" Loondorf looked hurt. "Because he's a ballplayer." "So?" "So he's a baller. He's got cash, chains, crisp clothes. He's got a hat that says Yankees and it's the real deal, yo. He didn't buy it at no yard sale. He walks into a bar and girls are like damn. Dudes get jealous. They want to get in his face, prove they're somebody." "They want to take down the man," Steve said helpfully. ↗

— Chad Harbach

#baseball #baseball-players #art

Listen up cowboy, I don’t need my mind changed. I’m perfectly fine the way things are and you don’t know a damned thing about me so if you don’t mind, I really need to get home. Goodbye Tyler.” I turned on my heel and started walking. “Princess, get in the truck, I’ll give you a lift.” He called. “No!” I shouted over my shoulder and kept on walking. “What’s a man got to do for a date with you?!” He shouted back. Oh My God really? “For starters use proper grammar! ↗

— K. Larsen

#funny-humor #romance-funny #change

Fights don't solve matters, they just make things worse. (Diary 19) ↗

— Erin Gruwell

#nothing #solve #freedom

It’s important to hold the knife with the edge down. How important? Well, it depends. How important is your life? ↗

— Hank Reinhardt

#knife-fights #life

The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts. ↗

— Pete Wentz

#fighting #fights #gray #love #pete-wentz

The one thing you should never do to a woman, whether you make love to her or fuck her, is apologise straight after. ↗

— Dianna Hardy

#apology #couples #couples-fights #fucking #make-love

She hated his need to always win and he hated her coldness during their arguments. ↗

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

#love

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#capitalist #capitalist society #class #fights #hand

My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#africa #after #among #breaking #every

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#afterwards #battle #been #defeat #destined