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“The biggest problem confronting the country is our excessive spending. If we're not going to deal with it now, when are we going to deal with it? And we've watched the government explode over the last four years. We've dealt with the revenue issue.”

Ifs Years Country Problem Government Lasts Deals Issues Four Spending Four Years Revenue Confronting Excessive Spending

Author:Mitch McConnell

“Where we are now is we have resolved the revenue issue and the question is what are we going to do about spending. I wish the president would lead us in this discussion rather than putting himself in a position of having to be dragged kicking and screaming to the table to discuss the single biggest issue confronting our future.”

Wish President Issues Position Tables Spending Discussion Our Future Revenue Kicking Confronting

Author:Mitch McConnell

“See yourself confronting your fears in your mind's eye and handling those fears like a champ.”

Mind Eye Fear Powerful Visualization Confronting

Author:Les Brown

“Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination”

Real Perspective Determination Confronting Parole

Book:Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

Source: Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

“When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me. I seem to transform myself into the opponent, and every movement he makes as well as every thought he conceives are felt as if they were my own and I intuitively...know when and how to strike him.”

Ifs Knows Wells Seems Felt My Own Movement Identity Strikes Opponents Threatening Confronting Swordsman

Author:D.T. Suzuki

“You can see desperation in people who are too eager to laugh because they're in such a hurry not to look at what's confronting them in their lives and that's kind of sad because there's a kind of pornographic aspect to it, of making some sort of pain go away, of hovering around a pain, making yourself numb, not feel anything.”

People Feels Looks Kind Pain Laughing Aspect Going Away Desperation Numb Confronting Hovering

Author:Dylan Moran

“A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties.”

Humans Moving Order Steps Difficulty Limitation Midst Confronting Small Steps

Book:The Name of God is Mercy

Source: The Name of God is Mercy

“What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person and what kind of a society will we have twenty years hence if life can be taken so casually? It is that question, the question of our attitude, our value system, and our mind-set with regard to the nature and worth of life itself that is the central question confronting mankind. Failure to answer that question affirmatively may leave us with a hell right here on earth.”

Ifs Years Mind Kind May Persons Happens Earth Values Nations Answers Attitude Accepting Moral Hell Taken Mankind Baby Conscience Twenties Regard Fabric Confronting Mind Set Value Systems

Author:Jesse Jackson

“I think this is one of the problems that we're having in Indigenous affairs. Why we're not confronting the issues that are going to resolve it, the anger and the guilt. The anger on the Aboriginal side; the guilt on the non - Aboriginal side. We have got to deal with that, move on and start doing real work.”

Thinking Real Problem Moving Sides Deals Issues Guilt Affair Resolve Indigenous Confronting Aboriginal Real Work

Author:Warren Mundine

“When you feel that you are a lonely, put-upon, isolated little stranger confronting all this, you are under the influence of an illusory feeling, because the truth is quite the reverse. You are the whole works, all that there is, and always was, and always has been, and always will be.”

Feels Littles Has Beens Whole Feelings Influence Truth Is Lonely Stranger Isolated Reverse Confronting Illusory

Book:Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation

Source: Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation

“Keys to Finding Hope: 1. Hope depends upon taking care that we have at least two alternatives, in every situation we find ourselves, and with every task confronting us. 2. In any situation, no matter how much we may feel we are at the mercy of vast forces out there, that are totally beyond our control, we can always find something that is within our control, however small, and work on that. 3. Nothing that happens to us is just senseless and meaningless. In the context of our total life, it will eventually turn out to have meaning.”

Feels May Two Matter Happens Care Turns Force Situation Keys Depends Findings Tasks Mercy Alternatives Meaningless Confronting

Author:Richard Nelson Bolles

“Particularly in periods of crisis, governments have the obligation to lead by good example! Instead, many in Europe are confronting this global challenge with a penny-pinching mentality that drives me crazy.”

Government Challenges Crazy Example Periods Europe Crisis Obligation Mentality Pennies Confronting Good Examples Drive Me Crazy Pinching

Author:Martin Schulz

“It has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and from the rear so to speak since if death be anything at all beyond a brief and peculiar emotional state of the bereaved it must be a brief and likewise peculiar state of the subject as well and if aught can be more painful to any intelligence above that of a child or an idiot than a slow and gradual confronting with that which over a long period of bewilderment and dread it has been taught to regard as an irrevocable and unplumbable finality, I do not know it.”

“One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.”

World Difficult Tasks Philosopher Confronting Difficult Tasks

Book:The German Ideology: Including Theses on Feuerbach and Introduction to The Critique of Political Economy

Source: The German Ideology: Including Theses on Feuerbach and Introduction to The Critique of Political Economy

“I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be a problem, but that what we say we believe does not seem to make any difference for either the church or the world.”

Thinking World Believe Doe Problem Seems Christian Challenges Differences Church Confronting

Book:Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

Source: Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

“If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them!”

Ifs Liberty Essentials Harm Injury Confronting

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“We have certain rules for traditional lyric poetry in Korea. I twist my body, confused by what to say and how to act, facing these rules. Confronting traditional lyricism, I speak with a bare body without the tattoos of culture on it.”

Body Certain Culture Speak Traditional Confused Tattoo Twists Korea Confronting Lyric Poetry

Author:Kim Hyesoon

“Indeed, it is an indisputable fact that all the complex and horrendous questions confronting us at home and worldwide have their answer in that single book [the Bible].”

Book Facts Home Answers Complexes Confronting

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.”

Hard Use Happens Difficult Term Emotional Ego Weakness Things Happen Artistic Confronting Scientology Letting Things Happen

Author:Annie E. Clark

“I realized that I hated politics. I mean that is you know... I realized being in the jungle that what I had thought I could do, I mean changing the way politics were being done in Colombia, was not possible the way I wanted to do it - by confronting, by denouncing.”

Knows Way Mean Done Wanted I Realized Hated Jungle Confronting Being Done Colombia

Author:Ingrid Betancourt

“This is hardly a South African problem, of course. We are confronting nothing less than a global system of brutal misogyny. Too many men across the world see too many women as repositories of their rage, frustration, narcissism or simply their will to enact violence.”

Men World Problem Courses Violence South Rage Frustration Narcissism Brutal South Africa Misogyny Confronting

Author:Dave Zirin

“Jesus defeated satan in Gethsemane on the cross, not by directly confronting the devil, but by fulfilling the destiny to which He had been called. The greatest battle that was ever won was accomplished by the apparent death of the victor, without even a word of rebuke to His adversary!”

Jesus Destiny Battle Devil Crosses Satan Accomplished Defeated Fulfilling Adversaries Confronting Rebuke Gethsemane

Author:Francis Frangipane

“Most people have a hard time confronting their weaknesses in a really straightforward, evidence-based way. They also have problems speaking frankly to others. Some people love knowing about their weaknesses and mistakes and those of others because it helps them be so much better, while others can't stand it.”

People Way Hard Helping Problem Mistake Knowing Weakness Evidence Hard Times Straightforward Confronting

Author:Ray Dalio

“All too often, parents and kids struggle to find an empathetic ear when confronting bullying situation; these escalate and too often result in marginalization, on top of what may well be a daily gauntlet of harassment and abuse that is fundamentally torture.”

Wells May Kids Parent Results Situation Struggle Ears Abuse Torture Bullying Harassment Confronting Empathetic Marginalization Gauntlet

Author:Lee Hirsch

“There are 60 million generators in Nigeria. The generator owners and distributors have a strong incentive to not encourage the distribution of solar and other alternative energies, even though it's better for the country, it's better for people. As a world, we've got to get more serious about confronting those obstacles. This knows no culture, no race, no ethnicity.”

“In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I'm very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.”

May Today Issues Optimistic Spite Hopeful Confronting

Author:John Lewis

“I think the reasons for not selecting persons like the Reverend Borders and John Wesley Dobbs were, in my book rather obvious reasons: because they were people who were basically oriented in the direction of the established method of not confronting the power structure, but trying to elicit concessions by various and sundry means of, well, let's call it accommodating leadership.”

People Thinking Trying Wells Mean Persons Book Reason Method Structure Obvious Various Borders Confronting Concessions Reverends

Author:Ella Baker

“Instead of confronting its real and difficult problems and grappling honestly with a dark past, Hungary embraced a reactionary government and a self-pitying image of itself as the victimized nation, and went looking for scapegoats in the Roma, Jews, and, most recently, Syrian migrants.”

Real Self Problem Government Past Nations Difficult Dark Jew Honestly Reactionaries Confronting Migrants Scapegoat Hungary Grappling Difficult Problems

Author:Susan Faludi

“If you believe one of the biggest problems confronting the country is overregulation by this administration, the single most effective way to begin to rein in the aggressive regulators, who in my view have done great damage to this economy, is in the bills that fund the regulators.”

Ifs Way Believe Country Done Problem Views Economy Bills Administration Damage Fund Aggressive If You Believe Reins Confronting Regulators

Author:Mitch McConnell

“I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.”

People Thinking Trying Reality Agony Spares Confronting

Author:Gene Weingarten

“Russia has a common interest in confronting radical Islamic terrorism and especially ISIS. And if we have opportunities to work together I think President Trump is looking for an opportunity to begin that relationship anew.”

Ifs Thinking Together Opportunity President Interest Common Trump Terrorism Russia Radical Islamic Working Together Isis Confronting Common Interests Islamic Terrorism

Author:Mike Pence

“I think what we are confronting now is a new war of ideas. It's not communism versus capitalism, but it is authoritarianism versus democracy and representative government. And that is a threat that here in Europe, they feel acutely. They've seen their countries interfered with, bombarded by cyber-attacks, by Russian propaganda, indeed, by Russian troops.”

“You can not be successful without confronting rejection.”

Successful Rejection Being Successful Can Not Confronting

Author:Michael Ealy

“Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.”

Challenges Telling The Truth Confronting

Author:Johann Lamont

“The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.”

Men Today Religion Church Religious Streets Media Communication Messages Catholic Impact Confronting Church Today

Author:Pope John Paul II

“If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.”

Ifs Mind Ideas Matter Individual Rooms Moral Vision Knowledge Courage Learning Intellectual Conscience Management Committees Confronting Moral Compass Moral Life

Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.”

United Issues Media Islam Separation Kingdoms Division Confronting United Kingdom Portrayal

Author:Cat Stevens

“Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.”

Able Risk Rewards Profit Defense Supposed To Be Reap Confronting Contractor

Author:James Surowiecki

“If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.”

“Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.”

Today Growing Essence Crisis Series Notion Fragments Urgent Live For Today Confronting

Book:Wholeness and the Implicate Order

Source: Wholeness and the Implicate Order

“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, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.”

Feels Culture Universe Common Taught Myth Common Sense Aliens Identical Taught Us Confronting

Author:Alan Watts

“Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.”

Believe Stills Hard Used Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Comforting Confronting Hard Truths Succumbing

Author:Fareed Zakaria

“The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.”

Believe Humans Real Reality Difficult Interest Chance Progress Achieve Realistic Underestimate Optimist Programmes Confronting Anything Is Possible Real Change Vested Interests

Author:Julian Baggini

“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death - ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.”

“Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.”

Trifles Confronting

Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.”

Existence Possession Confronting Thinness Furnishings

Author:Zoë Heller

“I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I was beginning to sense that to stare into the heart of such a fearful mystery wasn't a bad thing. To be afraid is a priceless education. P 99”

Heart Moments Facts Wanted Mystery Staring Midst That Moment Bad Things Fearful Priceless Confronting

Author:Lance Armstrong

“We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations we have made to faith itself.”

Made Problem Religion Religious Civilization Intellectual Atheist Extremism Confronting Religious Extremism Accommodations

Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.”

Years Order Girl Goal Hours Masters Thousand Vampire Tall Destroying Waking Thousand Years Confronting Destroying Things

Book:Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5

Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5

“Recognizing and confronting our history is important. Transcending our history is essential. We are not limited by what we have done, or what we have left undone. We are limited only by what we are willing to do.”

Important Done Left Learning Willing Essentials Presidential Recognizing Undone Confronting Transcending

Author:George W. Bush

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