Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Oliver North

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

John Dewey

We only think when we are confronted with a problem

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.

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.

Three independent bystanders said Marcus never had a gun in his hand. Marcus admits that those three said something rude to his girlfriend, and he verbally confronted them.

Pierre Loti

The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.