Best Confronting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If not me then who? Confront evil!”

“As I indicated in an earlier chapter, it is so important to pause and think through some of these basic issues while you are young, before the pressures of job and family become distracting. Everyone must deal with the eternal questions sooner or later. You will benefit, I think, from doing that work now. As I said earlier, whether you are an atheist, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew, a New Ager, an agnostic, or a Christian, the questions confronting the human family are the same. Only the answers will differ.”

Source: Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“Expect this stage [our storage, hobby, and play areas] of minimizing to stir up emotions and recall memories both sweet and bittersweet. You may encounter old photo albums whose pages you haven't turned in decades, mementos of celebrations long gone by, trophies you formerly sweated to win, personal objects you remember being in the possession of loved ones you've lost, the wedding dress you wore..., the stuffed bunny your daughter fell asleep clutching throughout infancy, and art supplies you once envisioned yourself creating beauty with. The experience at times may warm your heart and at times may fill you with sensations of regret, loss, or failure. Don't back away from these emotions. Work your way through them. This might be just the opportunity you need to process the past and position yourself better for the future.”

Past Stuff Emotions Items Confronting Minimizing

Book:The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life

Source: The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life

“Challenges - whether they're the ones faced in the past, are confronting us now, or may be encountered in the future - force us to examine our fundamental values and beliefs.”

Challenges Future Beliefs Confronting Encountered Fundamental Values

Book:Leadership Challenge 4th E

Source: Leadership Challenge 4th E

“What in Hades were you doing, lady? I almost hit you." Remington rose to confront him, but before he could say a word, Madeline came up like an infuriated wasp. "What was I doing? What were you doing? You almost hit this dog." Her cheeks and the tip of her nose glowed scarlet with fury. Her eyes sparked with brilliant blue. She had a smudge on one cheek and her hat was askew, but that didn't matter, for all the passion she had revealed in the morning's kiss she put into the defense of a mutt she had never before seen. Surly with guilt, the youth said, "It was just a flea-ridden stray." Then her loveliness registered. He jerked to attention, back straight, shoulders back. He stared with avid fascination into her face. "I believe we may have met, although I can't quite remember-" She rampaged on, "Is that the way you were taught? To run over defenseless animals?" Stepping back, Remington folded his arms. This youth didn't stand a chance. Her eyes narrowed. "Wait a minute. I recognize you. You're Lord Mauger!" "Yes, I... I am. Viscount Mauger, humbly at your service." Whipping his hat from his head, the youth bowed, eager to make a belated good impression on the beauty before him. "And you are...?" She wasn't impressed or interested. "I know your mother, and she would box your ears for this." Dull red rose in Mauger's cheeks. "You won't tell her." "Not if you promise to be more careful in the future. I won't be around to rescue the next dog, and I remember what a fine lad you were. You love animals, and you'd feel guilty if you killed one." "You're... you're right." Mauger's pleading eyes looked much like the dog's. "I just bought the chestnut, and came into town, and I wanted to show him off, but that's no excuse..." As Mauger dug his toe into the dirt, Remington realized he was observing a master at work. She had taken the young man from fury, to infatuation, to guilt in one smooth journey, and Mauger adored her for it.”

Confronting Disarming Eleanor De Lacy

Book:One Kiss From You

Source: One Kiss From You

“By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.”

Shows Kids Novel Ordinary Overcoming Odds Confronting

Author:Lurlene McDaniel

“One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.”

People Doe Happens Running Found Boys Roles Couple Sensitive Confronting Working Life

Author:Ben Mendelsohn

“The beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you're playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic book movie. It feels like a straight-up drama. It's real. You're confronting the possibility that comic book characters were based on people that were real.”

“We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.”

Thinking World Change Possibility Politician Complexes Incredibles Dare Complexity Unusual Exploring Unbelievable Unthinkable Improbable Confronting

Author:J. William Fulbright

“We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully.”

Needs May Ends Facts Honestly Preparing Facts Of Life Confronting Morbid

Author:Billy Graham

“Success in confronting terrorism on the regional or international levels is contingent upon addressing its root causes and protecting the right of peoples under foreign occupation to resistance”

Causes Levels Roots International Terrorism Resistance Occupation Confronting Root Cause

Author:Farouk of Egypt

“One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most.”

Needs Should Self House Behinds Brain Materials Stones Meetings Ghost Encounters Host Interiors Midnight Chamber Concealed Confronting Corridors Lonesome Surpassing Abbey

Book:Dickinson

Source: Dickinson

“True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.”

People Pain Resistance Confronting

Book:Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

Source: Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

“Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting us today. The rulers of the earth have realized long ago what potent poison inheres in the Christian religion. That is the reason they foster it; that is why they leave nothing undone to instill it into the blood of the people. They know only too well that the subtleness of the Christian teachings is a more powerful protection against rebellion and discontent than the club or the gun.”

“Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.”

Way Age Water Danger Wind Stupidity Chiefs Routine Laziness Sloth Confronting Swamps Cellars Shutters

Book:The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning

Source: The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning

“I am looking forward very much to getting back to Cambridge, and being able to say what I think and not to mean what I say: two things which at home are impossible. Cambridge is one of the few places where one can talk unlimited nonsense and generalities without anyone pulling one up or confronting one with them when one says just the opposite the next day.”

Thinking Mean Two Home Able Next Impossible Opposites Two Things Nonsense Pulling Unlimited Next Day Looking Forward Confronting Cambridge Generalities

Book:The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The private years, 1884-1914

Source: The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The private years, 1884-1914

“Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in expression suddenly confronting speakers, with no respectable linguistic solution immediately in sight.”

Firsts Mother Common Practice Expression Solutions Sight Metaphor Aids Wit Features Speakers Respectable Jam Halt Confronting Expediency Homely Mother Wit

Author:Laura Riding

“The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.”

Men Figures Activity Tasks Contemporary Confronting Predecessors Minus

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“One thing I hate about the New Deal is that it is killing what, to me, is the American pioneering spirit. I simply do not know what to tell my own boys, leaving school and confronting this new world whose ideal is Security and whose practice is dependence upon government instead of upon one's self. All the old character-values seem simply insane from a practical point of view; the self-reliant, the independent, the courageous man is penalized from every direction.”

“Courage is finding the inner strength and bravery required when confronting danger, difficulty, or opposition. Courage is the energy current behind all great actions and the spark that ignites the initial baby steps of growth. It resides deep within each of us, ready to be accessed in those moments when you need to forge ahead or break through seemingly insurmountable barriers. It is the intangible force that propels you forward on your journey.”

Source: If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human as Introduced in Chicken Soup for the Soul

“With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.”

Hands Turns Study Failing Example Humility Obstacles Indifference Guidance Warning Traps Blindness Hazards Confronting

Book:Cardozo on the Law: Including the Nature of the Judicial Process, The Growth of the Law, The Paradoxes of Legal Science, Law and Literature

Source: Cardozo on the Law: Including the Nature of the Judicial Process, The Growth of the Law, The Paradoxes of Legal Science, Law and Literature

“I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.”

Men Feels Death Dies One Day Anxiety Boxes Decades Compassionate Psychiatrist Confronting Pandora Dealing With Death Pandora's Box

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.”

Ifs Years Moments Acting Hell Achieve Judging Obstacles Enormous Zone Pits Confronting Faceless Happy Place

Book:An Improvised Life: A Memoir

Source: An Improvised Life: A Memoir

“There are two ways of confronting the country's problems.One is through a management style based on adventurism, instability, play-acting, exaggerations, wrongdoing, being secretive, self-importance, superficiality and ignoring the law. The second way is based on realism, respect, openness, collective wisdom and avoiding extremism.”

“Ultimately, all I wanted was for players to feel like they were in the real world. I wanted them to be able to apply real world common sense to the problems confronting them, and I thought recreating real world locations would encourage that kind of thinking. There's also just a real power, a real thrill, when you fire up a game and see a place you've been or want to go, and then get to do all the stuff you WANT to do there but know you'll get arrested if you try! If that isn't the stuff of fantasy - far more than exploring some goofy dwarven mine or alien spaceship - I don't know what is!”

“Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the philosophers themselves. If then anyone there be who, boastfully taking pride in his supposed wisdom, wishes to challenge what we have written, let him not do it in some corner nor before children who are powerless to decide on such difficult matters. Let him reply openly if he dare. He shall find me there confronting him, and not only my negligible self, but many another whose study is truth.”

“Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and thus prevent their correction.”

Real Problem Results Attention Issues Atheism Expression Bases Critical Positive Atheism Neglect Corrections Real Problems Suppression Grievance Confronting Unrest

Author:Thomas I. Emerson

“I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it all, since I understand that as man up-levels his own consciousness, he sees more creative solutions to the problems that he's confronting.”

Men I Can Problem Can Do Work Levels Consciousness Creativity Creative Highest Solutions Confronting Creative Solutions

Author:Ram Dass

“Others may doubt us. They may criticize us. They may try to deny us what is rightfully ours. But they will fail. And I promise you, as long as I am mayor, I will never back away from fighting any opponent - or confronting any obstacle - that would prevent our people from achieving all of their dreams in Our New York.”

People Trying May Long Dream Fighting Doubt Failing Achieve New York Promise Obstacles Deny Opponents Criticize I Promise Mayors Confronting

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“By about a week before the big day, you will have received less than half of your invitation response cards. Panic sets in when it occurs to you that everyone invited will actually show up. You couldn't have made it easier for your guests. You have included a card that had boxes for 'will attend' or 'will not attend.' You included a pre-addressed, stamped envelope. How inconvenient could it be for them simply to check it off and drop it in in a mailbox? Very inconvenient. You, evil bride-to-be, are confronting two basic human fears. A terror of correspondence and the dread of decision-making.”

Source: A Groom of One's Own: And Other Bridal Accessories

“In fact, every child on earth born after June 23, 1988 belongs to what I call Generation Hot. This generation includes some two billion young people, all of whom have grown up under global warming and are fated to spend the rest of their lives confronting its mounting impacts.”

People Children Two Facts Earth Young Born Generations Hot Impact Climate Change Billions Global Warming June Confronting This Generation

Author:Mark Hertsgaard

“I'm interested in confronting police brutality and police abuse of cracking down on street performers and street artists, but also in valorizing street art as legitimate performance within the artistic sphere, where it's so often conflated with pan-handling and begging and not "successful" art. I want to change laws around street performance.”

Want Art Law Artist Successful Streets Performances Abuse Police Artistic Performers Spheres Police Brutality Brutality Begging Confronting Street Art Street Performers

Author:Kalan Sherrard

“I ask two questions when I am confronting life on a moment to moment basis when something important is happening. (1) What is factually happening right now? (2) What does my soul know about this and want me to know about this? It is amazing that when I give myself 20-25 seconds to seriously consider these questions, almost instantly I will arrive at a deeper awareness and a richer understanding of what is happening right now - from the soul's level of awareness.”

Knows Want Giving Doe Two Important Soul Moments Asks Understanding Levels Awareness Right Now Happenings Bases Deeper My Soul Seconds Want Me Confronting

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Because our gifts carry us out into the world and make us participants in life, the uncovering of them is one of the most important tasks confronting any one of us.”

World Important Tasks Participants Confronting Uncovering

Book:Eighth Day of Creation: Discovering Your Gifts and Using Them

Source: Eighth Day of Creation: Discovering Your Gifts and Using Them

“We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.”

Choices Individual Process Growth Situation Healthy Safety Independence Series Delight Maturity Dependence Progression Never Ending Confronting Immaturity Free Choice Regression

Book:Toward a Psychology of Being

Source: Toward a Psychology of Being

“I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.”

People World Wells Feet Land Son Involved Brave Soldier Steel Confronting My Soldier Pashtuns

Author:Alexander the Great

“There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.”

War Use Evil Moral One Thing Modern New York Students Cold University Liberalism Graduates Cold War Confronting Columbia Graduate Students Columbia University Modern Liberalism

Author:Dennis Prager

“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.”

Home Eye Courses Audience Degrees Mass Lows Billions Noise Stadiums Intimidated Confronting

Author:Rowan Atkinson

“What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.”

Suffering Hope Supreme Heroic Confronting

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“We are capable of suffering with our world, and that is the true meaning of compassion. It enables us to recognize our profound interconnectedness with all beings. Don't ever apologize for crying for the trees burning in the Amazon or over the waters polluted from mines in the Rockies. Don't apologize for the sorrow, grief, and rage you feel. It is a measure of your humanity and your maturity. It is a measure of your open heart, and as your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal. That is what is happening as we see people honestly confronting the sorrows of our time.”

“Defeating terrorism in Libya can only be achieved through the political and institutional determination of a united Libyan government, which will need the strong and unequivocal support from the international community in confronting the myriad challenges facing Libya.”

Needs Government Political Strong Community Challenges United Support Determination International Terrorism Confronting International Community Libya Unequivocal

Author:Bernardino Leon

“Only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them.”

Conquer Demon Confronting

Book:Identical

Source: Identical

“I had my own insecurities, which a lot of my comedy would come from, about not being able to live up to their academic expectations. Acting out those insecurities was a way of confronting them, like, “Let me just lean into being a guy who can’t read or write.””

Way Writing Able Guy My Own Acting Comedy Expectations Let Me Insecurity Academic Confronting Acting Out

Author:Charlie Day

“I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. They have value like Paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. There's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.”

World Book Used Values Comfort Exciting Plenty Grandmother My Grandmother Shortage Confronting Narcotics

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I will use the rest of my life to help the poor overcome the problems confronting them - poverty is the greatest challenge facing humanity. That is why I build schools; I want to free people from poverty and illiteracy.”

People Want Helping Use Problem School Humanity Challenges Poor Poverty Overcoming Confronting Illiteracy Help The Poor

Author:Nelson Mandela

“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.”

Made Sides Virtue Influence Democratic Faults Journalism Occasions Opponents Lazy Target Flaws Ignored Flip Exaggerated Partisans Overlooked Confronting Caricatures Cheerleader Chavez

Author:Rory Carroll

“As TV embedded itself into the national consciousness, it got us to remember how more than just the facts transmits truth and reality - and in fun, engaging ways. TV also showed us how telling our stories, confronting our own truths makes us and the people with whom we're sharing feel less lonely and alienated.”

People Way Feels Facts Stories Reality Remember Fun Consciousness Tvs Lonely Engaging Embedded Transmit Confronting Truth And Reality

Author:Lee Gutkind

“Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.”

Life Is Joy Challenges Risk Labor Taking Risks Confronting Great Joy Toiling

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“The choices we make now will shape the future of not just our countries, but the world at large. We should intensify our cooperation in confronting global challenges like Terrorism, Cyber Security and Climate Change.”

World Should Country Choices Challenges Security Shapes India Climate Climate Change Terrorism Our Country Cooperation Governance Confronting Cyber Cyber Security

Author:Narendra Modi

“It's a shame that we have to use whatever leverage we have in Congress to get the president to deal with the biggest problem confronting our future. And that's our excessive spending.”

Use Problem President Deals Shame Congress Spending Our Future Confronting Excessive Spending

Author:Mitch McConnell

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