Confronted Quotes
296 quotes by 255 authors
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For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying…
— Thomas Bernhard
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No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern…
— Roger Penrose
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When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the…
— Unknown Author
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Considering what Americans have been confronted with in the last ten years, domestically and internationally, it's clear that we need emotional outlets; we have to…
— Pete Rozelle
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You'll never know everything about the person you've chosen to marry. But the more information you have before entering into this commitment, the less chance…
— Unknown Author
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Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she…
— Nina Simone
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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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Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?
— Candace Bushnell
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When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on…
— Benjamin Franklin
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I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've…
— Michael King
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Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the…
— Boris Yeltsin
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I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media.
— Joey Skaggs
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Organizations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has…
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.
— I F Stone
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Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer…
— Ellen Key
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Climbing is the lazy man's way to enlightenment. It forces you to pay attention, because if you don't, you won't succeed, which is minor -…
— Unknown Author
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
— Viktor E. Frankl
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The child in me could not die as it should have died, because according too legends it must find its father again. The old legends…
— Anais Nin
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This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a verbal…
— Gaston Bachelard
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