Confronted Quotes

296 quotes by 269 authors

J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an… — Ansen Dibell
Through the stories of women I admire, and, above all, through my own experience with my daughters, again and again I encounter moments of extraordinary… — Arianna Huffington
When confronted with a situation that appears fragmented or impossible, step back, close your eyes, and envision perfection where you saw brokenness. Go to the… — Alan Cohen
If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace. If peace mattered to you more than anything else and if you truly… — Eckhart Tolle
Very often, we are confronted by people who want us to pray their way or colleagues who want us to think their way. We must… — Harold Klemp
A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image,… — J I Packer
When confronted with information streaming from the eyes, the brain will interpret this information in the quickest and most efficient way possible. Time is energy.… — Gregory Berns
Bottom line is that I have had a totally criminal moral code and operated with a totally criminal mind attitude that I have not fully… — Mike Rinder
Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your mother's womb is… — Grace Lee Boggs
Resistance is a simple concept: power, unjust and immoral, is confronted and dismantled. The powerful are denied their right to hurt the less powerful. Domination… — Lierre Keith
My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer… — Peter Higgs
A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility. — Nicky Wire
In contrast, the 'Old Europe' channels were showing film from reporters who had embedded themselves at the wrong end of the Baghdad blitz and the… — David Walker
The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty when confronted with… — Paul Feyerabend
Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one which seems to… — Herbert Butterfield
When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since… — Harrison Birtwistle
In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we… — Mao Zedong
Throughout his life, General Wesley Clark has stood up to some tough opponents. He battled the Viet Cong, and went toe-to-toe with Slobodan Milosevic. But… — Jon Stewart
Be the buffalo. Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee nation, once told me how the cow runs away from the storm… — Donna Brazile
Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily… — Wendell Berry

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