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Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are… — Wangari Maathai
The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those… — C.S. Lewis
Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated how deliciously self-destructive… — Ian Mcewan
Death - Death can be faced, dealt with, adjusted to, outlived. It's the not knowing that destroys interminably... This being suspended in suspense; waiting -… — Ruth Graham
As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp… — Raymond Chandler
Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big… — Alfred Hitchcock
He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you… — Betty Friedan
Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about… — Jorge Luis Borges
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to… — Henry Miller
That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons… — Ray Bradbury
I've faced worse than a dressmaker who breaths fire. — Jessica Day George
It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing. — Daniel Handler
..."Fun?" you ask. "Weren't feminists these grim-faced, humorless, antifamily, karate-chopping ninjas who were bitter because they couldn't get a man?" Well, in fact the problem… — Susan J. Douglas
We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick… — Jhumpa Lahiri
We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice:… — Eckhart Tolle
Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when… — Ronald Reagan
If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty. — Marilyn Monroe

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