Confronting Quotes

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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see… — Rowan Atkinson
Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series… — David Bohm
Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq… — George W. Bush
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him. — Thomas Aquinas
Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were… — Jim Rohn
With the defeat of the Reich and pending the emergence of the Asiatic, the African and, perhaps, the South American nationalisms, there will remain in… — Adolf Hitler
Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it is science that… — Bill Bryson
A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our paths — Daisaku Ikeda
I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life. — Thomas More
Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe liberty because it… — Thomas Szasz
I have the authority to address the threat from Isil, but I believe we are strongest as a nation when the president and Congress work… — Barack Obama
So here's the situation confronting the drug firms: The drugs cost more to make, but they can't charge more for them. What do they do?… — Donald Kennedy
If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for. — Jonathan Ive
We the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency-a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential...the earth has… — Al Gore
The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism. — Tony Blair
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain… — M.C. Escher
Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived… — Stephen Greenblatt
There is no doubt in my mind that this is the greatest problem confronting mankind at this time and that it has reached the level… — David de Kretser
As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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