Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Francis Schaeffer

Truth carries with it confrontation.

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?

Barry McCaffrey

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

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.

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.

We will not use the oil weapon now because we don't want to confront other countries.

Dennis Hastert

The President has the responsibility to tell us his thoughts on how to confront these growing problems.

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.

In failure you confront yourself, ... Don't rush through failure, because if you take it step by step, you realize that it isn't.

If you can cope the pride when winning, then you can confront despair when lose.

Kate Christensen

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

Li Keqiang

In pursuing reform, we have to navigate uncharted waters. We may also have to confront protracted problems because we will have to shake up vested interests.

I have seen her criticize and confront politicians and public leaders because they've ignored the needs of the community.

The only way to confront the Zionist enemy is the continuation and fortification of resistance and Jihad,

Richard Mitchell

We decided if they would let us march, we wouldn't overly confront them.

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.

Someone who lives here really never has to confront traffic.

They were confronted by three men. The man was hit over the head and they were robbed.

Julian Bond

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.