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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Barry McCaffrey

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

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.

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.

Rachel Nichols

Kudos to you for generating enough sweat that it actually drips off of your body - and all over the machine you are using at the time. If you sweat a lot, that's fine, but wipe down the damn machine when you're done... or I will confront you, and it will not be pretty.

Ben Bernanke

As we try to make the financial system safer, we must inevitably confront the problem of moral hazard.

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.

Oliver North

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

Fabian Nunez

Obviously the governor had a very positive tone about us getting back to work, rolling up our sleeves and tackling some of the tough issues that confront our state,

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.