Vernon Law Quotes

We want to resolve this peacefully but if we can’t, there are some things worth fighting for.

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

And that, Claire thought, was why Morley had been right about this, even if he was a complete vampire about it. You had to save what you could. Amelie had understood that all along, Claire realized. That was why Morganville existed. Because you had to try.

Sometimes you have to defeat your enemies—not just talk to them.

Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action.

Yoiu have to fight in order to live in peace.

I've never let people push me around in politics.

We have to build an iron wall to protect Israel.

At a certain point, I think, you harden yourself to the realities of the business.

You have to make the strikers fear you. Make it difficult for them to get on the ball and go into different areas. That makes my job easier.

The world needs many more humanitarians than it needs warriors, but there can be none of the former without enough of the latter.

We always think we can get to the quarterback, put pressure on him.

Every kid thinks about scoring rather than not conceding.

Sometimes I feel like my defense is so elite that sometimes my offense gets put on the backburner.

I defend my goal as if it were my home. I do my best to defend it and not to allow anyone to score goals or penetrate that. It's true.

Are you going to back down to somebody? If not, you're giving yourself a chance.

I do what I've got to do to survive, to keep my teeth in my head, and my head on my shoulders. I apologize to whoever can't put that together and understand that.

It's hard to go out there and protect something that you earned.

Defense doesn't matter enough.

People have tried to keep me at bay with their jab, but once I put that pressure on, there is only so much you can do.

I kind of focus on my own stuff, really, and then when people come into my territory, I've got to fight them away, and that's what we do every time fight night happens.

I've been on the other end of sticky decisions, have been the 'B' side, but I never go in there thinking, 'Is this going to go against me?'

Compromises lead you nowhere. You can't be happy doing something you don't believe in.

Sometimes, you have to take a stand; you cannot make everyone happy.