Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

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.

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.

Barry McCaffrey

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

Someone who lives here really never has to confront traffic.

Jeff Tweedy

Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

In failure you confront yourself, ... Don't rush through failure, because if you take it step by step, you realize that it isn't.

They're going to be confronted for the first time with lots of detailed questions that they didn't face before because the questioners didn't know all the facts yet.

Li Keqiang

In pursuing reform, we have to navigate uncharted waters. We may also have to confront protracted problems because we will have to shake up vested interests.

Errol Morris

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

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.

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?

If you can cope the pride when winning, then you can confront despair when lose.

I have seen her criticize and confront politicians and public leaders because they've ignored the needs of the community.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

They confront us and deal with us in a very harsh and illegal language, but ultimately they need us more than we need them.

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.

Kate Christensen

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

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.

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.

Lauryn Hill

I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.

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.