Confronted Quotes

296 quotes by 255 authors

I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his… — Sylvia Plath
He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. — Maya Angelou
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love. — Mahatma Gandhi
He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ… — Terry Pratchett
We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In… — Neil Postman
All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are… — Milan Kundera
Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one. — Peter HÃ¸eg
One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed… — Angela Carter
Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect. — Fred Rogers
About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this… — Paulo Coelho
But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent… — Agatha Christie
There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man… — Agatha Christie
Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity,… — Paulo Coelho
So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted out Marya's name… — John Green
For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts. — Malcolm Lowry
When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations… — John Patrick Shanley
...So in his own way Guy Clinch confronted the central question of his time, a question you saw being asked and answered everywhere you looked,… — Martin Amis

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