C Quotes
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“Confrontation is not bad. Goodness is supposed to confront evil.”
“Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.”
Source: Midsummer Snowballs
“Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught.”
Source: Blueprints
“Confrontation is what I dread the most in life.”
Source: You're Never Weird on the Internet
“Confrontation leads to action. Avoidance leads to inaction.”
Source: All Your Perfects
“Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.”
“Confronted afterward, she claimed no knowledge of that bedroom tryst; she did not intend to be held responsible for men's dreams.”
Source: The Witches: Salem, 1692
“Confronted by a Church that has ceased to manifest God's mercy and intimate connection with humankind - that has converted Christ into a grim and joyless adjunct to the policing of bedrooms and marital intercourse - men and women can no longer see themselves as beloved of God, only as impure and reprehensible.”
“Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event, is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism, does he write "I had a fun time"? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way, but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing.”
“Confronted by menace, or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, define it.”
Source: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
“Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love”
“Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?”
“Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“Confronted with a choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.”
“Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution.”
“Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one.”
Source: Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel
“Confronted with such a variety most philosophers try to establish one approach to the exclusion of all others. As far as they are concerned there can only be one true way- and they want to find it. Thus normative philosophers argue that knowledge is a result of the application of certain rules, they propose rules which in their opinion constitute knowledge and reject what clashes with them.”
Source: Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being
“Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, we’ve chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates said, not because the books are expensive, but because our time is scarce.”
Source: So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
“Confronted with the desert's boundless emptiness, my sense of loneliness shrank down to the point of irrelevance. My sense of self shrank down to the point of irrelevance. To comprehend one's own smallness may for most people be a terrifying experience, but I found it comforting.”
Source: Stuck Wide Open
“Confronted with the horror of a period in which man, whom he wanted to magnify, has been persistently degraded in the name of certain principles that surrealism adopted, Breton felt constrained to propose, provisionally, a return to traditional morality. That represents a hesitation perhaps. But it is the hesitation of nihilism and the real progress of rebellion. After all, when he could not give himself the morality and the values of whose necessity he was clearly aware, we know very well that Breton chose love.”
Source: The Rebel
“Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.”
“Confronted with the problems that characterize our herding culture, we are perhaps like the metaphorical man wounded by an arrow that the Buddha discussed with his students. He said that the man would be foolish if he tried to discover who shot the arrow, why he shot it, where he was when he shot it, and so forth, before having the arrow removed and the wound treated, lest he bleed to death attempting to get his questions answered. We, likewise, can all remove the arrow and treat the wound of eating animal foods right now. We don't need to know the whole history. We can easily see it is cruel and that it is unnecessary; whatever people have done in the past, we are not obligated to imitate them if it is based on delusion. Perhaps in the past people thought they needed to enslave animals and people to survive, and that the cruelty involved in it was somehow allowed them. It's obviously not necessary for us today, as we can plainly see by walking into any grocery store, and the sooner we can awaken from the thrall of the obsolete mythos that we are predatory by nature, the sooner we'll be able to evolve spiritually and discover and fulfill our purpose on this earth.”
Source: The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony
“Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, theblacks who became a "credit to their race," the women elected to high office, the handicapped who made "useful contributions" to our society.... Just as we believe in the self-sufficient family, we also believe that any child with enough grit and ability can escape poverty and make a rewarding life. But these stories and beliefs clearly reflect the exceptions.”
Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure
“Confronted with the vision of a beautiful garden, we see something beautiful about ourselves.”
Source: Creating a Garden for the Senses
“Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capitalist production is no longer to find producers and to multiply their powers but to discover consumers, to excite their appetites and create in them fictitious needs.”
Source: Selected Marxist Writings of Paul Lafargue
“Confronting a liar makes a better liar.”
“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 the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low.”
“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 before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.”
“Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty or responsibility laid down in scriptures, clearly.”
“Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it.”
Source: The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
“Confronting the endless desire that is at the heart of our individual overconsumption and global excess is the only intervention that can ward off the daily call to consume that bombards us on all sides.”
Source: Where We Stand: Class Matters
“Confronting the US made him [Hugo Chavez] a target for demonization. Partisan and/or lazy journalism exaggerated his faults, ignored his virtues, and downplayed the influence of strident and on occasion anti-democratic opponents. The flip side is his anti-imperialist posturing so dazzled his cheerleaders they overlooked his flaws, flaws which worsened over time, and they created their own caricature.”
“Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm.”
“Confronting this regime and opposing Zionists are a national duty, as well as religious and Islamic duty, and a human duty. Even the people of Europe and America despise the Zionists. They hate them. They feel humiliated by the Zionists, who are a burden on them.”
“Confronting your enemy in anger feeds your ego, but diminishes your chance of success.”
Source: The Timingila
“Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.”
“Confronting your fears is like unlocking doors that lead to unexpected possibilities and personal transformation.”
Source: Overcoming Mediocrity: Limitless Women
“Confruntarea cu moartea iminenta poate sa propulseze omul in intelepciune si la o noua profunzime a existentei.”
Source: Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy
“Confucian traditions teach that all beings stem from one source, the Great Ultimate, and participate in the Great Unity. Ren (love or benevolence) is the essence of all that is good in humanity, and extends across species, as exemplified in the noble person (junzi).”
Source: Animals and World Religions
“Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.”
“Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.”
“Confucius advised his disciples, ‘Wherever you go, go with all your heart.’ Giving all of oneself to an artistic effort is particularly apropos because even the most talented writer, poet, singer, painter, musician, or philosopher will tear a tatter from their soul in order to produce anything that will stand the test of time and affect the minds of other people. While I admittedly lack the talent, skill, poise, grace, intelligence, creativity, and persistence of esteemed writers, I share what every writer must, an awful craving to know what previously escaped me, to know thy self and my place in the world. An irrepressible hunger to know, searching for the truth that governs our being, is what makes us human.”
“Confucius does his crossword with a pen.”
“Confucius is like the Torah, rules to follow. And Lao-Tzu is even more conservative, saying that if you do nothing you won't break any rules. You have to let tradition fall sometime, you have to take action, you have to eat bacon.”
“Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago.”
“Confucius say ...
"He who sleep with itchy butt wake with smelly finger.”
Source: 100 quotes by Confucius: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts
“Confucius say if man want to grow one row of corn, first must shovel one ton of shit.”
Source: Misery
“Confucius say woman should never speak for man." He bit her jaw, working his way toward her mouth.
She tapped his shoulder, "What does he say about a crowd watching?"
Boyd gazed over his shoulder and then glanced back with an evil smile, Confucius say fuck 'em."
And he kissed her long and hard.”
Source: Pin-up Fireman
“Confucius say, man with hand in pocket feel cocky all day”
“Confucius say... politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.”