Standoff Quotes

#1. Then I reckon we got ourselves a good old-fashioned standoff."
...
Nobody moved, or said anything, for the next few moments.
"Old-fashioned standoffs are mighty borin

Derek Landy

#2. The world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind today as did the nuclear standoff between the superpowers at the height of the Cold War.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#3. An old western standoff had nothing on the looks that my mom and grandma were exchanging. A tumbleweed could have rolled through the kitchen and neither would have noticed.

Lani Woodland

#4. I stop stretching and face him, unwilling to back down from this visual standoff. I'm not going to let him perform his little Jedi mind tricks on me, no matter how much I wish I could perform them on him. He's completely unreadable and even more unpredictable. It pisses me off.

Colleen Hoover

#5. There's no longer a superpower standoff. But there are real problems that divide countries around the world. And the UN is still the place where we can get together and try and discuss them

Shashi Tharoor

#6. Now, we'll have to hang out here until we're sure Jared's really gone and can't catch us." He grinned conspiratorially. "Then we'll have some fun!" I remembered that his idea of fun was usually along the lines of an armed standoff.

Stephenie Meyer

#7. The waitress returns, cutting into possibly the most bizarre
way a pregnancy can be announced. At a Mexican restaurant. With a tequila shot
standoff. In French

Krista Ritchie

#8. So, anyway." Jackal's impatient voice broke through our cold standoff. "Not to interrupt this riveting family drama, but are we going to go hunting anytime soon, or are you two going to glare at each other until the sun comes up?

Julie Kagawa

#9. Monday night that Russian forces had dramatically escalated the standoff

Anonymous

#10. who have overtaken city halls across the country's eastern half. Although the standoff in

Anonymous

#11. Yuki (in a standoff with Zero): We're going to stay like this until vol. 10? Why ... don't we sit down ... Zero?
Zero: I can't. If I sit down, I won't be able to get up again. (I've reached my limits in many ways).
Yuki: Well, I'm going to sit ...

Matsuri Hino

#12. Regardless of what others may tell you, you only need two Mexican-Americans for a Mexican standoff.

Alejandra Diaz Mattoni

#13. When I used to theorize about a nuclear standoff, I didn't really have to understand what was happening inside the Soviet Union. It is a lot harder now to build a theory that can encompass all the complications of today's conflicts.

Thomas Schelling

#14. White House is ranting up its rhetoric for Republicans, using wild words to attack them over the budget standoff.

Andrea Tantaros

#15. Love is wonderful and worthwhile and enriching but it should never be a standoff between the person and the life that you want.

Heidi Priebe

#16. Looking back at Tim Cook's public appearances in the last few years makes the standoff with the government look almost inevitable.

Laura Sydell

#17. I am satisfied that a happy marriage is not so much a matter of romance as it is an anxious concern for the comfort and well-being of one's companion.
-Gordon B. Hinckley

Gordon B. Hinckley

#18. You know, Shayla called dibs on you earlier. Perhaps you
"
"I call dibs on you. Dance with me.

Beth Mikell

#19. I think it would be a great challenge to work on a military game which featured a female lead character. Since female soldiers are now being allowed on the frontlines, we're actually in danger of reality overtaking games!

Rhianna Pratchett

#20. Take the gentle path.

George Herbert

#21. One of the billions of things I love about Beyonce: The harder she tries to come on crazy, the less crazy she sounds.

Rob Sheffield

#22. I'm asking you to give me a chance, however slim, to prove myself."
My throat tightened. "Cade ... I'm not a science experiment."
"Good to know, but I rocked biology. Lab was my favorite," he teased.
"I'm serious."
"So am I.

Beth Mikell

#23. Dude, you can't just imply a guy's gonna get a blowjob and then pull back! I mean there's some sort of rule about that... blowjob etiquette or something, isn't there?

Joseph Lance Tonlet

#24. People think footballers are all like robots - we can control everything on the pitch. But your heart is beating 200 times a minute; it's very, very physical.

Didier Drogba

#25. After a pretty man breaks your heart, you're happy for a plain man.

Christopher Buehlman

#26. The kingdom of God ought to reshape our vision of what matters and who matters,

Russell D. Moore