Robert Whittaker Quotes

He punched me. If that's his best punch, he'll be in trouble some day.

I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.

He made it quite clear that if I didn't play the role, I would be dead within a week. As you can imagine, the guy who turned down Hagrid would be like the guy who called the Beatles a guitar band. So I couldn't possibly refuse, really.

I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.

Unless you’re prepared to use force, it’s very difficult to deal with a person who understands only force.

Our rulers do wrong from choice and right from necessity.

Come now, and let us reason together or you shall be devoured by the sword.

If you threaten force, you better be ready to use it.

One cannot negotiate under fire.

My first boxing experience came at around 14. There was always confrontation in the area I grew up in. My mentality, I'll be honest, was if someone tries it with me, I want to be able to knock them out.

Writing 'Deathstroke' presents a number of challenges to me. As a Christian, as a minister, it's difficult for me to write a comic book that all but glorifies violence. So my take on 'Deathstroke' has been to not so much celebrate violence but to deal with the consequences of violence.

Sometimes you knock someone out, sometimes you just beat 'em.

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?'

Fighting is not something that I enjoy doing. It's something that I do that I feel that I have to do.

The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong. Not cheating on a non-boyfriend with the non-boyfriend of a friend. The pressure of thinking that one through made her swollen body ache.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

I was trying to decide if you still had free will as a wolf. If I was a terrible person for planning to drug my girlfriend and drag her back to my house to keep in the basement.

The Time Lords really didn't like genocide. I'm not too keen on it myself. It's the potential you're killing off. What if, one day, there was a good Dalek? What if...

You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?

The right to do something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.