Famous Quotes & Sayings

Resorting to force is not desirable in the current situation, and would not solve the problems we are confronted with.

Manchester would be hiring a very qualified town manager for their town. I think Manchester would be a perfect position for him. It's a similar town the size of Enfield; probably many of the same issues that he would be confronted with day to day.

It is an honor to serve as council president. I hope I can live up to the standards...We will work proactively and on the toughest issues that confront Yardley.

Richard Haass

I wish we had never gotten to the point we are now. We ought to make this work. We have got to confront the opponents before us.

Todd Bertuzzi

I was hoping for the opportunity to confront him and speak to him and his family and it has never come about,

John le Carre

I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering.

Nick Hornby

I'm a liberal, unrepentantly so, but I often wonder and fear what would happen if I were confronted by any of my liberal beliefs, by somebody who actually who wanted to put them into practice.

Daunte Culpepper

I look forward to meeting my accusers in a court of law, so they can be confronted with this lie. In the end, the truth will come out and I will be vindicated.

I think their desired stance is to stand pat for an extended period of time rather than cut rates, unless they are confronted with an external shock to the global financial system.

Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.

Historically, when big issues confront the electorate, young voters come to the polls. In 2004, it was the war in Iraq.

Ted White

He went into hiding, which is a good thing. You don't want to confront somebody (who could) possibly apprehend you or hurt you or do whatever.

Stephen Kinzer

No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they had not been confronted with civil war.

Fabian Nunez

Obviously the governor had a very positive tone about us getting back to work, rolling up our sleeves and tackling some of the tough issues that confront our state,

Oliver North

What I am saying to you, and you know what I'm talking about, what they are confronted with,

Tucker Carlson

We're here to love you, not confront you.

Michael Leunig

Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when they are suddenly confronted by a horrifying statue of a man nailed to a cross, and this is often a most unfortunate and repulsive beginning.

Like a cornered animal, which turns instinctively to confront pursuing predators, Pol Pot viewed policy in terms of a fight to the death. The alternative was to be devoured.

The penalty was a joke and I would question is it right for the President of the IFA to confront an official during a match?

Ricky Martin

You just have to get rid of fear and confront the world. Look at yourself in the mirror and say to yourself, 'I love you and nothing will destroy you and you're not going to fall.'

Tim Wise

Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based political resentments.

Ban Ki-moon

We must confront persecution faced by many Christian communities and the intolerance that plagues us. We must overcome anti-Semitism and the prejudice that divides us. We must defeat Islamophobia and the fears that weaken us.

William Westmoreland

We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong.

Brian Greene

The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the equations don't work.

Tony Blair

We are not going to deal with this problem, with the roots as deep as they are, until we confront these people at every single level. And not just their methods but their ideas,

Lara Giddings

Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

W. G. Sebald

Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp.

Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps.

Criss Angel

One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they in some way feel empowered by what I'm doing so they can confront their own fears. Maybe it's the fear of getting in an elevator; maybe it's the fear of going on a plane and seeing the world.

Michael Shifter

The question is, when it comes time to confront those policy decisions, whether that could create more violence or unrest.

Theodor Herzl

Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it.

Anthony Marra

When confronted with the facts of foreign atrocities, the experience is often consigned to the realm of the unimaginable. Fiction makes the unimaginable imaginable.

You have to confront it. You can't let it fester. If you don't deal with it, it will explode.