Max Brooks Quotes

If people are jumping down people's throats all the time, in the end, they'll just shrivel up like a flower shrivels up that's not watered.

Resentments are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my saber.

Kyo: Of course, I'll beat YOU, too! Yuki: Don't you ever get tired of saying that? Kyo: Beating you is my vocation! It's my goal in life! Yuki: It's so unfair that I keep having to take abuse just because you can't meet your goals. Kyo: THAT CONDESCENDING ATTITUDE OF YOURS REALLY PISSES ME OFF! Yuki: And that revolting thought process of yours pisses me off.

Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.

I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me.

Shun an angry man for a moment-your enemy forever.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

Talking back and being quite aggressive about stuff and not giving a care in the world about anyone. So it was more, I think, that way and I think that's what happened in that party when I stood in between two people.

Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.

I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage.

I don't like fights. I don't like aggressive people.

I hate competition.

It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.

I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

A democracy is peace-loving. It does not like to go to war. It is slow to rise to provocation. When it has once been provoked to the point where it must grasp the sword, it does not easily forgive its adversary for having produced this situation. The fact of the provocation then becomes itself the issue. Democracy fights in anger — it fights for the very reason that it was forced to go to war. It fights to punish the power that was rash enough and hostile enough to provoke it — to teach that power a lesson it will not forget, to prevent the thing from happening again. Such a war must be carried to the bitter end.

By definition, to work with me, you need thicker skin and must be OK with a certain amount of verbal abuse!

Honestly, I don't talk; I just like to fight. I'm not a good talker.

If you're upset by something I said, you have bigger problems than you think.

One person might perceive me as godlike, and the next might think I'm a northern thug. I don't think I've done myself any favours... but I swear I've not had a proper fight since I was 14.

I had people come up from NXT and say to me, 'one thing we know is that we hear you're a bully,' I say that I am because I know that I am going to be bullied back at some point so I might as well start it.

When you have a lot of communication, it picks up the aggressiveness with everybody on the court.

Sometimes I feel like hitting somebody. You look at the refs and they say, 'We'll take care of it.' I think, 'Yeah? You won't take care of it the way I'd like to take care of it.'