Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Henry Cabot Lodge

True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.

It is an honor to serve as council president. I hope I can live up to the standards...We will work proactively and on the toughest issues that confront Yardley.

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

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

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.

Like a cornered animal, which turns instinctively to confront pursuing predators, Pol Pot viewed policy in terms of a fight to the death. The alternative was to be devoured.

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.

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,

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.

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.

Oliver North

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

John Dewey

We only think when we are confronted with a problem

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.

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.

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.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Without economic growth and job creation in Mexico, we won't be able to confront the migratory phenomenon.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

To confront criminals, we need to finish with corruption. If we don't do this, there is no hope.

Ashley Tisdale

I'm definitely old-school when it comes to dating. I'm not into the 'game' so much. If I like you, I'll confront you and be open about it. Then I expect you to come after me.

extremely overvalued and confront a high risk of a future price correction.

Peter Guber

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.

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.

You have to confront it. You can't let it fester. If you don't deal with it, it will explode.

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.

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

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.

Errol Morris

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

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.

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,

Javier Solana

These (election) results may confront us with an entirely new situation which will need to be analyzed.