Confronts Quotes

76 Confronts quotes by 68 unique authors

The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather intensifies. It's… — Carl Safina
The hero and the coward both feel exactly the same fear, only the hero confronts his fear and converts it into fire. — Cus D'Amato
A choice which confronts every one of us at every moment is this: Shall we permit our fellow men to know us as we now… — Sidney Jourard
A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts… — Pauline Hanson
Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and… — Arnold J. Toynbee
"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively… — Michio Kaku
The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos? — Romare Bearden
If the people of this religion [Islam] are asked about the proof for the soundness of their religion, they flare up, get angry and spill… — Unknown Author
This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for… — Bill Frist
The gospel confronts us with the hopelessness of our sinful condition. But we don't like what we see of ourselves in the gospel, so we… — David Platt
My final word, before I'm done, Is "Cancer can be rather fun"- Provided one confronts the tumour with a sufficient sense of humour. I know… — John B. S. Haldane
Nuclear weapons will not be gotten rid of until the United States confronts the magnitude of the horror, the tragedy, and the long-term suffering of… — Bernard Lown
PRIMAL TEARS is a novel of tremendous power. Passionate and erotic, at times tenderly lyrical, it confronts head-on, without flinching, brutal environmental and feminist politics.… — Kate Wilhelm
Our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to make… — Piper Kerman
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it,… — Alan Watts
Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit… — Henry David Thoreau
Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by. — C. K. Williams
Christ's boundless grace confronts our deep necessities. Christ's promised presence confronts our sad and gloomy loneliness. Jesus thus filled with grace so overflowing, with love… — Octavius Winslow
I refuse to accept the idea that the 'is-ness' of a man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the 'ought-ness' that… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The cross is offensive because it directly confronts the evils which dominate so much of this world. — Billy Graham
He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright. — Plutarch
The Latin American cause is about all a social cause: the rebirth of Latin America must start with the overthrow of its masters, country by… — Eduardo Galeano
The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself. — Walt Whitman
It would not be going too far to assert that ... conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and who… — Karen Horney
If someone confronts you about draining them it could be a "double reverse." They are draining you and accuse you instead of draining them, just… — Frederick Lenz

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