Confronting Quotes

My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite embarrassing, it's quite unpleasant, it's quite awkward.

The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism.

When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.

These are people that don't want to protect the American people... [T]hey will do anything, spend all the time and resources they can, to avoid confronting evil.

Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man!

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.

Indeed, it is an indisputable fact that all the complex and horrendous questions confronting us at home and worldwide have their answer in that single book [the Bible].

By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.

What we're trying to do is address something I saw in Congress that was a major problem, which is to say that energy is arguably the most fundamental issue confronting our country.

There is no doubt in my mind that this is the greatest problem confronting mankind at this time and that it has reached the level of a state of emergency.

A problem is solved not by confronting it directly, but by going to a level where no problem exists.

The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.

Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.

I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.

Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for.

I have a really hard time stepping out of a limousine and confronting a sh*tload of photographers who are all screaming at you, because it's like saying, 'yeah, yeah, here I am!'

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.

The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive

If not me then who? Confront evil!

Fearing our confrontations is one thing... facing them unarmed is a completely different matter.

However, if we don’t confront the seed of lies, it gives place for them to take root in us and we become bound to the “prison cell” that those lies create.

Embrace the anxiety of confronting your emotions because it’s often the emotional hitting of rock bottom that ignites our resolve to get back to the top.

There is power in confronting your fears. In knowing what it is you fear above all, you can prevent it from becoming your reality. There are always choices.

The long-term pain suffered by suppressing emotions is far greater than the short-term pain of confronting them.

Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons in compassion.

It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.