Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!

Why should I let them beat up on me? Let them argue with each other.

I've got a quick mouth, and I set my boundaries. Nothing ever happened that I couldn't handle. Once when a guy came on stage making rude gestures, I hit him over the head with my guitar.

I can definitely be tough when pushed. In relationships, you have to take a stand for who you are and how you're willing to be treated.

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.

You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.

Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.

We cannot put limitations on ourselves to protect ourselves. We have to put limitations on the enemy.

I'm really good at telling people 'no.'

One time, this guy was bothering my mother, and me and my brothers had a stern talking with the guy and a little bit of physicality with him. So he disappeared. But I'm not a magician.

There's definitely been times where there's stuff that I have not been comfortable with, and I've had to put my foot down.

Unless someone physically tries to attack me, I don't care what anyone does.

People have this misconception that I'm going to beat them up when I meet them. But it's like... no. Just 'cause I stand up for myself, and I'm honest, that doesn't mean I'm going to beat people up all the time.

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.

I will never let another man disrespect me. I don't care if we sparring or fighting.

The older kids, if they wanted something from you, whether it was cash or sports equipment, they would just take it. My older brothers used to say, 'If someone tries to take something from you, never give it to them.' So we fought all the time.

I am nice, yeah. I'm cool. But I'm no push-over. And if someone gets one over on me, they've done it when my eyes were closed, and it doesn't happen twice.

Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

I won't be threatened or intimidated by anyone and I've always been prepared to do what is necessary to defend my interests.

Too timid to talk back, I shot my adversary.

I moved to leave, and Dylan actually grabbed my shoulders. I was so surprised that i forgot to karate-chop his elbows and break his arms.' “I don’t want anything to happen to you,” he said urgently. “What you want does not matter here,” I said slowly and carefully. I hoped Dylan was sensitive enough to read between the lines, to the subtext of: Let go of me or I’ll kill you.

I don't try to be angry to prove something. I wouldn't try to intimidate you for any reason unless you were trying to intimidate me, and then I would show you that you can't do that to me.

I want you to be nice...until it's time to not be nice.

I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood

When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.