Confronts Quotes

76 quotes by 71 authors

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit… — Woody Allen
Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion. — Nathaniel Branden
Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to… — Albert Schweitzer
From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as… — R. D. Laing
The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. Although… — Gerald Fischbach
In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to form satisfying and… — William C. Menninger
When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate "why," that great "why" is like… — Eugene Ionesco
The journey to a different future must begin by defining the problem differently than we have done until now. . The task is not to… — Theo Colborn
Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was… — James Russell Lowell
There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins. — Diane Ackerman
The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child. — Robert Breault
The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
One of the remarkable qualities of the story is that it creates space. We can dwell in a story, walk around, find our own place.… — Henri Nouwen
Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others. — Liz Stanley
Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the… — Ayn Rand
We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep school manners, the… — David Brooks
Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to obscure or quite… — Franz Kafka
From the moment the organizer enters a community he lives, dreams... only one thing and that is to build the mass power base of what… — Saul Alinsky
Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight. From Kiev to… — Carolyn Cooke
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.... — Jackson Pollock

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