Confront Quotes
469 quotes by 407 authors
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The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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…
— Elizabeth Moon
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We cannot point to a single definitive solution of any one of the problems that confront us — political, economic, social or moral, that is,…
— Peter Medawar
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You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them aside in disgust…
— Michael Swanwick
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The World is not an idea as asserted by philosophers who have dedicated their entire lives to the exploration of ideas. First and foremost the…
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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While law-abiding Muslims are forced to hide in their homes, and animal-rights activists are labeled as terrorists for undercover filming of abusive treatment at factory…
— Amy Goodman
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For me, climbing is a form of exploration that inspires me to confront my own inner nature within nature. It’s a means of experiencing a…
— Lynn Hill
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I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where our souls belong....The…
— Jim Morrison
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I was more than anything a radical. I was more sympathetic to Malcolm X than Martin Luther King because Malcolm X was more of a…
— Walter E. Williams
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Many of my sharpest critics have decided to take a position of ignoring me - because they feel that by attacking me, they would draw…
— Bruce Bartlett
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If we are genuinely concerned about the environment and the fellow human beings, and want to end territorial disputes, war, crime, poverty, hunger, and the…
— Jacque Fresco
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Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them.
— Jerome Groopman
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If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say…
— C. Wright Mills
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The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No.
— Frederick Leboyer
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Men and women of the world, never again plan war! With this atomic bomb, war can only mean suicide for the human race. From this…
— Takashi Nagai
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Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphemisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered in the mass…
— Martin Esslin
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More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore something,…
— Phyllis Rose
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When you travel you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly, and…
— Paulo Coelho
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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…
— Donna Rice Hughes
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It is said that courage isn’t the absence of fear but the fortitude to confront fear. And as long as homophobia continues to be an…
— LZ Granderson
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