Confronted Quotes
296 quotes by 269 authors
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Sometimes it's strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I'm surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I…
— Eddy Merckx
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What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the…
— George Bernard Shaw
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We live in terribly complex times. We are confronted by very serious problems. Some of us are faced with sickness, with economic difficulties, with worry…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Stories come from violence, they come from sex. They come from death. They come from the dark places that everyone has to go to, kind…
— Joss Whedon
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The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and…
— Martin Seligman
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As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.
— Andre Malraux
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The great lesson of our time is that evil still exists, and when evil is on the march, it must be confronted.
— Stephen J. Solarz
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Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution.
— Richard L. Gordon
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We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury....
— Richard Hofstadter
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My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very…
— Rudolf Hess
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...convince all nuclear powers, including those which have been more reluctant up to now, of the necessity to respect the "vital interests" of all peoples…
— Alfonso Garcia Robles
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Develop discipline of self so that you do not have to decide and re-decide what you will do when you are confronted with the same…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the…
— James A. Baldwin
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Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do…
— Dennis Prager
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No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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What should we think of someone who never admits error, never entertains doubt but adheres unflinchingly to the same ideas all his life, regardless of…
— Diane Ravitch
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Confronted with the loving-sharing Consensus of subject-SUBJECT relationships all Authoritarianism must vanish. The Fairy Family Circle, co-joined in the shared vision of non-possessive love -…
— Harry Hay
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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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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.
— Clarence Darrow
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