Confronted Quotes

296 quotes by 271 authors

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well -but, when… — Shirley Hazzard
It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only… — Arthur Leonard Schawlow
To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who… — Robert C. Murphy
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to… — Albert Einstein
The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology. — Bill Gates
All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other. — Derrick Bell
We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth's functioning in… — Thomas Berry
Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety. — Benjamin Graham
We are confronted by the appearance of social institutions unintentionally created, vital for the welfare of society, which are not the result of reasoned planning — Carl Menger
As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when… — Albert Einstein
Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy.... There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years that I just… — Brent Smith
The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand. — Frederick Sommer
Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity, we need it to stand… — Joss Whedon
I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy. — Tab Hunter
Together he [Girolamo Savonarola] and his archenemy Lorenzo [de' Medici] would have been the stuff of gargoyles. One could almost imagine the diptych in which… — Sarah Dunant
Every time I have had a problem, I have confronted it with the ax of art. — Yayoi Kusama
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties - all… — David Foster Wallace
It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity. — Gentry Lee
The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence of that person… — Paul Strand
The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. This 'outgrowing',… — Carl Jung

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