Famous Quotes & Sayings

Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.

Historically, when big issues confront the electorate, young voters come to the polls. In 2004, it was the war in Iraq.

Adam Arkin

To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang.

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.

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.

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

Kate Christensen

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

Terry Bradshaw

I don't like confrontation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Jeff Tweedy

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

Ahmed Chalabi

Saddam did not have a serious military plan to confront the coalition, but he had a serious post-defeat plan which he's putting into operation,

Julian Bond

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

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.

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.

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.

Tucker Carlson

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

Jonathan Safran Foer

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

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.

We share the government (and) people of Egypt's grief at this attack. We are, as ever, ready to work with them to confront the threat that we all face from international terror.