Famous Quotes & Sayings

The idea of improvisation means that we confront ourselves with our own individual creativity.

Julian Bond

quiet example demonstrated to millions new ways to confront the evil of segregation.

Raymond had a .22-caliber rifle with him when he confronted Betancourt, and shot him.

John Hickenlooper

Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right.

After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion.

Someone who lives here really never has to confront traffic.

Sarah Waters

The relationship you have with your mother is like nothing else. They do kind of know everything about you, even though they don't confront it. That is often a dynamic from childhood onwards. As a teenager, you want to be independent and do slightly furtive things.

George Cook

They don't want to confront this issue. The kids have indicated that they want this to happen, and that's what this is supposed to be about.

They were confronted by three men. The man was hit over the head and they were robbed.

David Horowitz

There was England. And then there was the United States. If the pacifist betrayers of the West had not been so powerful in the 1930s and Western governments had confronted Hitler early, 70 million lives would have been saved. Americans would do well to remember this now.

This is an escalation that we have been expecting, ... The government of Iraq is determined to confront the enemies.

This is a place to make decisions and a place for people to decide what they are going to do, ... We are doing an injustice to people if we don't make them confront decisions.

Ryan Key

We're disappointed to be postponing these dates, but it's a relief to know the source of the problems I'd been having with my voice. And it's much better to confront it now (rather) than later when it could be more serious. We'll be back on the road in June when we can give 100 percent.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.

unceremoniously shoved his father out of the way and went to confront the woman. ... He raised the shotgun and pointed it at the woman.

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.

Kara Walker

I've seen people glaze over when they're confronted with racism, and there's nothing more, you know, damning and demeaning to having any kind of ideology than people just walking the walk and saying what they're supposed to say and nodding, and nobody feels anything.

Javier Solana

These (election) results may confront us with an entirely new situation which will need to be analyzed.

Henry Hyde

The statute of limitations has long since passed on my youthful indiscretions. Suffice it to say, Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time ago. After Mr. Snodgrass confronted my wife, the friendship ended and my marriage remained intact.

Henry Hyde

The statute of limitations has long since passed on my youthful indiscretions, ... Suffice it to say, Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time ago. After Mr. Snodgrass confronted my wife, the friendship ended and my marriage remained intact.

We will not use the oil weapon now because we don't want to confront other countries.

Teller

The silent thing onstage allows for a kind of intimacy that no conversation can have. If I just shut up, we're forced to look at each other and really confront that moment.

The temptation employers are going to be confronted with is to look at this as a way to reduce expenses.

Kate Christensen

It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.

Alexander Downer

that there are some people on earth who are so wicked and so evil that nothing can be done but to confront them.

Barry McCaffrey

everyone understands that a team effort is needed to confront the drug crisis.

Errol Morris

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

Francis Schaeffer

Truth carries with it confrontation.

I do want to find out what actually happened. Each person, when confronted with the situation, did what they thought was right. ... Now, are there things that we need to put in place to make the process of handling such an instance more effective in the future?

I do know some of the player issues that we have, and the guys that played well and did not play well. That will be confronted and corrected, and if we have to make a change, we'll make a change.

Ezra Miller

The escape to an unchallenging fairy tale can be very nice and I'm all for that, but film can also challenge you to confront the realities of our world.

Stephen Lewis

the first dramatic signal from the U.S. administration that it is now ready to confront the pandemic and to save or prolong millions of lives.

Robert Crawford

They learn social skills and deal with language impediments. A lot of these are cognitively impaired students who have real-life scenarios they're being confronted with here.