Tamora Pierce Quotes

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.

When in doubt...shoe it out.

Use your head; cut off theirs.

Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.

This was something you had to work through on you own," Jason said. "Besides, I knew you'd do the right thing." "Oh, right," I said. I wanted to throw something at him. I really did. "And if I hadn't?" Now Jason brandished something he'd been holding behind his back. It was a golf club. "I figured Big Bertha here would drive them away," he said.

First fight. Then fiddle.

When in doubt, do something.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

I'd rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.

A president, like a college freshman, can't know in advance which questions he'll have to answer or what topics he'll have to master. He has to be flexible, supple, and responsive. He has to be comfortable with multiple-choice.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.

You're always going to have terrorism.

You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama.

Your people put the land mines on the road, and you will remove them, and if you get blown up, I don’t give a damn.

No man could know whether war might not at any moment break out.

Violence against violence? That will never solve the problem.

The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.

If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer.

The great problem now is that we don’t know what to do.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavor to find out what you don't know by what you do.

Violence never solves problems. It may cover them up temporarily because of the fear it is intended to inspire, but it is part of a cycle, not the end of a cycle.