Quotes about Confront

Fear depends on time for it's strength! Confront that which you fear with speed. Votes: 4

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. Votes: 4

Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence. Votes: 4

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory. Votes: 4

If not me then who? Confront evil! Votes: 3

Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn't. Votes: 3

Confront somebody with an issue before it becomes a conflict. Confrontation is not all bad. Votes: 3

Confront your fears list them get to know them and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead. Votes: 3

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead. Votes: 3

Observe people with cool eyes, listen to their words with cool ears. Confront feelings with cool emotions, reflect on principles with a cool mind. Votes: 3

You must put fear out of your mind. Confront it with the belief that the past is over with, that a new life lies ahead. Votes: 3

Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation. Votes: 3

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Votes: 3

Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than a license for a gun Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can A gentleman will walk but never run Votes: 3

Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance. Votes: 3

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. Votes: 2

The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. Votes: 2

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding. Votes: 2

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. Votes: 2

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture. Votes: 2

I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one. Votes: 2

I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't. Votes: 2

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction. Votes: 2

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt. Votes: 2

I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution. Votes: 2

Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive... to live now... to have the courage to confront each day. Votes: 2

You just have to get rid of fear and confront the world. Look at yourself in the mirror and say to yourself, 'I love you and nothing will destroy you and you're not going to fall.' Votes: 2

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. Votes: 2

My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation. Votes: 2

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America. Votes: 2

I try my best to confront situations because I know, at the end of the day, you can deal with it or it will deal with you. I've had enough experience to know that that's how it goes down. There's no going around it. Votes: 2

We're all here for a limited amount of time, and life is difficult - not unfair, but difficult. The key is to really confront our fears because when we do, and when we look at them, we really begin to realize that we are capable of handling them. Votes: 2

Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we used to think about what was 'safe,' we now become interested in doing what seems right or fun or meaningful or ripe with possibilities. Votes: 2

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful. Votes: 2

What a sound money system does is to stabilize all the elements in it, and reduces the uncertainty that people confront. And the one thing all human beings do when they are confronted with uncertainty is pull back, withdraw, disengage, and that means economic activity, which is really dealing with people, just goes straight down. Votes: 2

One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they in some way feel empowered by what I'm doing so they can confront their own fears. Maybe it's the fear of getting in an elevator; maybe it's the fear of going on a plane and seeing the world. Votes: 2

'Wayne of Gotham' is very much a father-and-son exploration. We've always seen Thomas Wayne through the years as this figure carved in marble; this perfect man. The only thing we really know about is that he died in that alley outside of a theater. But every son has to confront the reality of his father at some point in his life. Votes: 2

Well, I think having your kids see you role model behavior of dignity when it's hard, when you're upset, when you want to confront somebody but you don't want to and you're nervous about it, when you are having moments where abuse of power is coming on to you. I think it's really important for kids to see how you handle that. Votes: 2

Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them. Votes: 1

America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists. Votes: 1

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them. Votes: 1

The problem is, most people don't like to hear suggestions that directly confront or run counter to their most sacred beliefs. Votes: 1

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference. Votes: 1

I prefer to be someone who has to confront his many fears instead of someone who has the illusion he doesn't fear anything Votes: 1

We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions. Votes: 1

Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives. Votes: 1

We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. Votes: 1

You are more focus when you confront. Votes: 0

When you confront, you get goals faster. Votes: 0

You are more effective when you confront. Votes: 0

We cannot confront solitude without moral resources. Votes: 0

There are always wonderful mysteries to confront. Votes: 0

One must confront vague ideas with clear images, Votes: 0

You cannot change what you refuse to confront. Votes: 0

When you confront, you are more result oriented. Votes: 0

You will never change what you don't confront. Votes: 0

When you confront, you save yourself of disillusionment. Votes: 0

You cannot change what you will not confront. Votes: 0

Someone must stand up to confront and dissipate darkness. Votes: 0

The Modern Self must confront the shadow of hubris. Votes: 0

Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense? Votes: 0

Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront. Votes: 0

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise. Votes: 0

When you confront, you are trying to avoid a conflict. Votes: 0

Those who do not confront evil resent those who do. Votes: 0

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it. Votes: 0

Best way to deal with fear is to confront it. Votes: 0

Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self. Votes: 0

Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them. Votes: 0

When problems confront successful leaders, they get excited about the opportunity. Votes: 0

A viable new feminism must directly confront the realm of practice. Votes: 0

You know who is for you and against you when you confront. Votes: 0

Every time you make a movie you have to confront your fears. Votes: 0

True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary. Votes: 0

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them. Votes: 0

As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge. Votes: 0

Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. Votes: 0

No one country can confront them alone"¦the only way forward is together. Votes: 0

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth. Votes: 0

You can never change what you don't confront and transform what you avoid. Votes: 0

That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate. Votes: 0

We have to continue to confront the challenge of corruption within the public service. Votes: 0

To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty. Votes: 0

Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field. Votes: 0

Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification. Votes: 0

You have a responsibility to confront the war games - the American killing machine. Votes: 0

True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us. Votes: 0

The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically. Votes: 0

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making. Votes: 0

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other. Votes: 0

To live the life you've always wanted, you must confront the issues you've always avoided. Votes: 0

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world. Votes: 0

The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made. Votes: 0

Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny. Votes: 0

We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong. Votes: 0

To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light. Votes: 0

There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one. Votes: 0

When we confront facts and fears, we achieve real power and unleash our capacity for change. Votes: 0

We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop. Votes: 0

Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from Votes: 0

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art. Votes: 0

There is a lot of dignity in having the ability to confront the inconsequence of reality. Votes: 0

The worst thing you can do, despite the innumerable obstacles we confront, is to not try. Votes: 0

Neverland is a place where you don't grow up, then you have to confront your past. Votes: 0

Leaders exhibit two essential characteristics, the willingness to confront adversity and a clearly articulated future preference. Votes: 0

Growing up sometimes forces us to confront the distance between our childhood hope and the truth. Votes: 0

There's a mobile app for almost anything you may want to do, any situation you confront. Votes: 0

The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us. Votes: 0

Tim Cook has not been afraid to confront the government on issues he considers morally important. Votes: 0

It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death. Votes: 0

I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality. Votes: 0

Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself. Votes: 0

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning. Votes: 0

People will believe thousands of different lies in succession rather than confront a single scintilla of truth. Votes: 0

The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals. Votes: 0

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid. Votes: 0

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves. Votes: 0

Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties. Votes: 0

Obama said if elected his government would "harness technology to confront the biggest challenges that America faces". Votes: 0

The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you're most afraid of. Votes: 0

How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page? Votes: 0

We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism. Votes: 0

We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb. Votes: 0

I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace. Votes: 0

In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life. Votes: 0

Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance? Votes: 0

I think in America we have some really serious issues we're going to confront as a nation. Votes: 0

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do. Votes: 0

If people confront me with certain questions, if they are not right, I will not answer them. Votes: 0

It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time. Votes: 0

We all have a dark side, and we have to confront our dark side. That's pop American psychology. Votes: 0

As we try to make the financial system safer, we must inevitably confront the problem of moral hazard. Votes: 0

...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy. Votes: 0

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it. Votes: 0

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror. Votes: 0

To confront criminals, we need to finish with corruption. If we don't do this, there is no hope. Votes: 0

Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront. Votes: 0

Today we confront the future with optimism from a founded hope for the Iraqi people - in freedom Votes: 0

Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources. Votes: 0

If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them! Votes: 0

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively. Votes: 0

We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge. Votes: 0

I want to confront myself. I challenge and doubt myself. Basically, what I don't like is to get bored. Votes: 0

We do need to confront evil in this world, but we do need to work with the other nation. Votes: 0

Regardless of what barriers confront you, it is in your power to free yourselves; you have only to want to. Votes: 0

The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No. Votes: 0

Perhaps by sharing my personal weight-loss journey on television, I can help others confront the truth and lies behind obesity. Votes: 0

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do. Votes: 0

Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday. Votes: 0

The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium. Votes: 0

Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity. Votes: 0

Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone. Votes: 0

If I like you, I'll confront you and be open about it. Then I expect you to come after me. Votes: 0

Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever. Votes: 0

I was taught not to confront and interrupt people, but that's what I do every day on 'The View.' Votes: 0

The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do. Votes: 0

I want to be the voice of change and hope. I want to confront the big challenges this country faces. Votes: 0

Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change. Votes: 0

If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly. Votes: 0

When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself. Votes: 0

We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted. Votes: 0

We must confront the world now with an ethics to make it tremble, and with a dynamic to give it hope Votes: 0

It is easier to confront a threat as a mass, a group, not individuals who must be evaluated one by one... Votes: 0

It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights... Votes: 0

We need to confront the life-killing stereotype that says we're all about suffering. We need to bear witness to our pleasures. Votes: 0

If you can admit that you haven't yet understood everything,faith can fill the emptiness in heart to confront the hesitation. Votes: 0

What we do not confront, we inhabit.What we do not reject, we accept.What we do not fight, we become. Votes: 0

More and more people now have jobs that require them to confront the risk of appearing stupid on a regular basis. Votes: 0

It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it. Votes: 0

Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront. Votes: 0

Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems. Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them. Votes: 0

Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage. Votes: 0

We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and reproductive health Votes: 0

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species. Votes: 0

If you keep finding yourself in the same situations, the Universe is prompting you to confront self! YOU are the common denominator. Votes: 0

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself. Votes: 0

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference. Votes: 0

Country must confront what he called institutional racism. [We should] create a country which provides economic, social and environmental justice for all. Votes: 0

We should probably all pause to confront our past from time to time, because it changes its meaning as our circumstances alter. Votes: 0

All our relationships, especially the deep ones, stir up the deepest issues for us that we need to confront and work with. Votes: 0

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you. Votes: 0

My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me. Votes: 0

It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language. Votes: 0

We have to confront the reality of our world, and make the hard decisions about which way we want to move forward. Votes: 0

As soon as people decide to confront a problem, they realize that they are far more capable than they thought they were. Votes: 0

To nurture your career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. To nurture your moral core, it is necessary to confront your weaknesses. Votes: 0

At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is. Votes: 0

Even when you're feeling dejected, don't avoid the problem, confront it. That way you'll eventually realize that your dreams are in fact attainable. Votes: 0

If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame. Votes: 0

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues. Votes: 0

A soul connection not only inspires us to expand, but also forces us to confront whatever stands in the way of that expansion. Votes: 0

It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat. Votes: 0

A lot of my fears and anxieties are the fears and anxieties of a six-year-old boy. When I finally confront them, they're really small. Votes: 0

Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps. Votes: 0

Nature will never confront you with a problem you can't solve. You already have the answer, that is why the question appears before you. Votes: 0

Our greatest problems in life come not so much from the situations we confront as from our doubts about our ability to handle them. Votes: 0

I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about. Votes: 0

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life. Votes: 0

The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living. Votes: 0

We must confront the reality that his [Donald Trump] comments have provoked, and consider whether we want to import such hatred to this country. Votes: 0

I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry. Votes: 0

Israel's strategy cannot be to constantly confront the Palestinians with the history of the Holocaust, but instead to show them that Israel is a reality. Votes: 0

The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the equations don't work. Votes: 0

In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge of sustaining both--without losing either. Votes: 0

The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence. Votes: 0

Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq. Votes: 0

You win even if you lose. You will be celebrated to have dared to confront those terrible odds instead of crossing your arms against danger. Votes: 0

If you suspect someone is draining you, generally you should not confront them, but be nice, relax them, and then see what they are doing. Votes: 0

How is it that we can entrust the solutions for the problems that confront our country today to those who are complicit in their creation? Votes: 0

You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism. Votes: 0

Shame is the demon that keeps many of us trapped in our pain; healing comes when we gain the courage to confront our demon(s). Votes: 0

Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours. Votes: 0

Childbirth calls into question our very existence, requiring an expectant couple to confront not only new life but death, pain, fear and, most of all, change. Votes: 0

Jeremy Corbyn had shown a catastrophic failure of leadership and must step down to make way for someone with the backbone to confront racism and anti-Semitism. Votes: 0

In pursuing reform, we have to navigate uncharted waters. We may also have to confront protracted problems because we will have to shake up vested interests. Votes: 0

To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang. Votes: 0

The United States has to have the capability to deal with more than one enemy at one time and be able to confront them and win. Votes: 0

You cannot create new science unless you realise where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this. Votes: 0

You cannot create new science unless you realize where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this. Votes: 0

I thought I'd use music to confront the problems that I faced, and it helped. I found a more healing mindset, and it did rejuvenate me. Votes: 0

We will build our defenses beyond challenge, lest weakness invite challenge. We will confront weapons of mass destruction, so that a new century is spared new horrors. Votes: 0

Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based political resentments. Votes: 0

I want people to consider the idea that the only way of moving forward with their lives is to revisit and confront their issues and their pasts. Votes: 0

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future. Votes: 0

We've got to have a legacy of leadership. We've got to bring along with us a generation of black women who are going to confront twenty-first-century realities. Votes: 0

It is people's willingness to take personal risks and confront the powerful by daring to speak the truth, not the truth itself, that ultimately leads to change. Votes: 0

Unless we confront our history, unless we deal with it and move forward, not with recrimination, and move forward then we're always going to have the problems. Votes: 0

We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior. Votes: 0

The only way to prevent your problem from jubilating over you is to confront them head to head with the singular hope that they will be defeated! Votes: 0

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. Votes: 0

We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior. Votes: 0

All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization. Votes: 0

... new EU embassies lack the expertise in the field of culture and given the budget cuts in all Member States it is important to confront this challenge together. Votes: 0

It's so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you can get through just about everything. Votes: 0

Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them with difficult choices Votes: 0

In the interweave of mind and body, dance is a mode that allows people to work through difficulties, anticipate the future, recollect the past, and confront the present. Votes: 0

Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when they confront things they don't understnd. Votes: 0

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished. Votes: 0

I don't really trust ideas, especially good ones. Rather I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown. Votes: 0

The trees down the boulevard stand naked in thought, Their abundant summery wordage silenced, caught In the grim undertow; naked the trees confront Implacable winter's long, cross-questioning brunt. Votes: 0

I know of no better answer to the foul practices that confront our young people than the teachings of a mother, given in love with an unmistakable warning. Votes: 0

We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe. Votes: 0

Many of these Americans who are struggling to survive are Americans of color, .. Their cries for assistance confront America with a test of our moral compass as a nation. Votes: 0

No quality imparts apparent strength to its possessors more effectively than faith. From hospital beds to battlefields, it is the iron that strengthens a man to confront his destiny." Votes: 0

No quality imparts apparent strength to its possessors more effectively than faith. From hospital beds to battlefields, it is the iron that strengthens a man to confront his destiny. Votes: 0

Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. Votes: 0

I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this world is taking action. Votes: 0

Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere. Votes: 0

Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore our suffering is without meaning. Votes: 0

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes. Votes: 0

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist. Votes: 0

The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her novella--and was necessary to it. Votes: 0

The escape to an unchallenging fairy tale can be very nice and I'm all for that, but film can also challenge you to confront the realities of our world. Votes: 0

Kabbalah helps you confront your fears. If a girl borrowed my clothes and never gave them back, and I saw her wearing them months later, I would confront her. Votes: 0

The handling of a problem seems to be simply the increase of ability to confront the problem and when the problem can be totally confronted it no longer exists. Votes: 0

To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is. Votes: 0

Cyberspace is the battlefield of tomorrow... Instead of confronting us head-to-head on the traditional battlefield, adversaries will confront the U.S. at its point of least resistance- our information infrastructure. Votes: 0

A past may chase you if you try to escape from it... but once you confront it, it's just an old memory inside you. There's nothing to be afraid of. Votes: 0

One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helped create has made it difficult to sustain the material practices constitutive of an ecclesial culture to produce Christians. Votes: 0

It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach. Votes: 0

The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction. Votes: 0

We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.' Votes: 0

I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do. Votes: 0

The process of facing and selecting our possessions can be quite painful. It forces us to confront our imperfections and inadequacies and the foolish choices we made in the past. Votes: 0

The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems that will confront the world tomorrow. Votes: 0

Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and confront the excesses of empire at every turn. Votes: 0

I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation. Votes: 0

If we confront anti-Semitism ... if we combat it individually and as a society, and use whatever platform we have to denounce it, we can stop the spread of this madness. Votes: 0

There's a thing you confront when you're going into something new and you come to this sort of abyss, and then you push yourself. It makes you try different things. Votes: 0

Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft. Votes: 0

Fear is a good thing because it keeps you alive, but if it becomes so great that it hinders you from doing what you want, you need to confront it head-on Votes: 0

So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship. Votes: 0

So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship. Votes: 0

What people should do is explain to their friends, to their neighbors how they feel when they confront the word n - - and why they feel the way they feel. Votes: 0

Fate is how your life unfolds when you let fear determine your choices. A path of destiny reveals itself to you, however, when you confront your fear and make conscious choices. Votes: 0

Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming contradictions, redaction and myths passed off as verifiable history. Votes: 0

Devastation could arise insidiously, rather than suddenly, through unsustainable pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. Indeed, these pressures are the prime 'threats without enemies' that confront us. Votes: 0

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production. Votes: 0

We are used to facing the United States as a fortress from the outside. Now we are finding a breach to penetrate the country (the U.S.) and confront it from within. Votes: 0

I believe that the organisers of this conference have chosen a very timely subject for our discussion - because the 21st century will confront us with an entirely new set of challenges. Votes: 0

If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect. Votes: 0

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it. Votes: 0

I perhaps could have been somewhat better. One of the interesting things about playing competitive sports as a child is that you confront your own limitations rather starkly at a certain point. Votes: 0

America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore. Votes: 0

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are. Votes: 0

Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes, without thinking, all the other species around it. Votes: 0

It means joining with allies to deploy renewable energy technologies -- both at home and around the world -- to confront the very real and present danger of potentially irreversible climate change. Votes: 0

What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world. Votes: 0

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world. Votes: 0

I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas. Votes: 0

The silent thing onstage allows for a kind of intimacy that no conversation can have. If I just shut up, we're forced to look at each other and really confront that moment. Votes: 0

But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour's legacy. Votes: 0

Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people of color when reacting to the [racist] event. Votes: 0

Obamas foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront. Votes: 0

Will we confront climate change in time or will we let fossil fuel companies determine our fate? This is a fight we can't afford to lose, and that's what keeps me moving forward. Votes: 0

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life. Votes: 0

I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience. Votes: 0

Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront. Votes: 0

To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity. Votes: 0

Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and to find consolation and peace in their presence. Votes: 0

While I have worked hard to bring folks to the middle to craft common-sense solutions to the many problems that confront our nation, Washington is mired in gridlock, gamesmanship and constant partisan bickering. Votes: 0

...the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant...has painfully affected the Soviet people, and shocked the international community. For the first time, we confront the real force of nuclear energy, out of control. Votes: 0

I do tend to have characters that I guess are in some way loners or dealing with obstacles that they have to confront that ultimately make them a better person in a way. Votes: 0

It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends. Votes: 0

If one were required to increase the dramatic seriousness of his face in relation to the seriousness of the problems he had to confront, he would quickly petrify and become his own statue. Votes: 0

I have always wanted a solo career, deep in the darkest pit of myself, but I didn't dare admit it to myself even. It took me a long time to confront my fears. Votes: 0

You people have a religion of death that fills you with the joy and courage to confront it...I do not. I believe the only essential thing is to be alive.- Abrenucio Votes: 0

The Talker needs attention. The Talker needs validation. The Talker would rather talk about an idea than confront the complexities, its obstacles. The Talker wants the glory but none of the hard work. Votes: 0

If you consider yourself a friend, dont tell me." Because if i know the rumors, i'll feel like i have to confront the. and right this second i want to live in ignorant bliss. Votes: 0

A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor and makes us confront the absolutes we believe in. Votes: 0

Today, this selfish attitude of indifference has taken on global proportions, to the extent that we can speak of a globalization of indifference. It is a problem which we, as Christians, need to confront. Votes: 0

President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate. Votes: 0

I'm not a racist, that's what so insane about this, and yet it's said, it comes through, it fires out of me, and even now in the passion that's here as I confront myself Votes: 0

In imitation of our Master, we Christians are called to confront the poverty of our brothers and sisters, to touch it, to make it our own and to take practical steps to alleviate it. Votes: 0

There's no need to let your family know the details of what you throw out or donate. You can leave communal spaces to the end. The first step is to confront your own stuff. Votes: 0

I'm not a racist, that's what so insane about this, and yet it's said, it comes through, it fires out of me, and even now in the passion that's here as I confront myself. Votes: 0

I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell. Votes: 0

We should never shy away from the challenges that face us out of fear of failure or an unwillingness to battle the odds. We should confront our problems head on and make no excuses. Votes: 0

As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society. Votes: 0

Difficulties and obstacles are God's challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus. Votes: 0

The world must come together to confront climate change. There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought, famine and mass displacement that will fuel more conflict for decades. Votes: 0

No matter what I've done, what I've tried to do, everybody says it can't be done. And it's continuous across the complete spectrum of the various kind of realities that you confront with your ideas. Votes: 0

Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it - and thank God. Votes: 0

...nor can we know ahead of the fact the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless succession of moments during which we will confront the experience of meaningless itself. Votes: 0

New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate. Votes: 0

We must confront persecution faced by many Christian communities and the intolerance that plagues us. We must overcome anti-Semitism and the prejudice that divides us. We must defeat Islamophobia and the fears that weaken us. Votes: 0

We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over safety and use their talents to question and confront the culture. Votes: 0

Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce individuality of passion with the dulling universal certainty of platitude. Votes: 0

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated. Votes: 0

There's a reticence necessary when you consider the suffering of others. Into the space created by that reticence, you bring in those things that best help us confront ambiguity: music, painting, film, and so on. Votes: 0