Famous Quotes & Sayings

The process of facing and selecting our possessions can be quite painful. It forces us to confront our imperfections and inadequacies and the foolish choices we made in the past.

Tariq Ramadan

We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.

Tucker Carlson

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

James E. Faust

Latter-day Saints, having received the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands, are entitled to personal inspiration in the small events of life as well as when they are confronted with the giant Goliaths of life.

Jonathan Safran Foer

When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.

Tom DeLay

There is no negotiating with a man like this, ... There is no safe path to accommodate his ambitions. Our only responsible option was to confront this threat before more Americans die. He must be removed from power.

We're going to outnumber everybody. We have the technology, the knowledge and the will to confront (defiant settlers).

Bill Parcells

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.

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.

We're going to confront these guys. We're taking this to the court of the streets where people think. We're taking this to the court of public opinion.

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.

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,

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.

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.

Dennis Hastert

The President has the responsibility to tell us his thoughts on how to confront these growing problems.

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.

extremely overvalued and confront a high risk of a future price correction.

Peter Guber

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Without economic growth and job creation in Mexico, we won't be able to confront the migratory phenomenon.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

To confront criminals, we need to finish with corruption. If we don't do this, there is no hope.

Ashley Tisdale

I'm definitely old-school when it comes to dating. I'm not into the 'game' so much. If I like you, I'll confront you and be open about it. Then I expect you to come after me.

To not prepare for (injuries) is like going into a game not thinking about special teams. You know that at some point, you are going to be confronted with it, so youd better be ready.

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.

John Dewey

We only think when we are confronted with a problem

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?

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.

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.