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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low. -- Rowan Atkinson
Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are. -- Henry Cloud
What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. -- David D. Burns
Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm. -- Oliver Burkeman
Confronting and undermining the narratives and ideas of extremism must therefore be one of our key tasks. To do this, we must retain the courage of our convictions in the face of extremism. -- Jonas Gahr Store
We have certain rules for traditional lyric poetry in Korea. I twist my body, confused by what to say and how to act, facing these rules. Confronting traditional lyricism, I speak with a bare body without the tattoos of culture on it. -- Kim Hyesoon
Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge. -- Jim Rohn
Confronting this regime and opposing Zionists are a national duty, as well as religious and Islamic duty, and a human duty. Even the people of Europe and America despise the Zionists. They hate them. They feel humiliated by the Zionists, who are a burden on them. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible. -- Claude Chabrol
Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about. -- Johann Lamont
I was always a courageous woman, capable of confronting governments but not men. -- Jane Fonda
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do. -- Fareed Zakaria
Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination. -- George Jackson
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him. -- Thomas Aquinas
Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward. -- James Surowiecki
I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears. -- Michael Trucco
Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry. -- Margaret Spellings
You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory. -- J. Donald Walters
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. -- Marie Curie
Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support. -- Laura Wasser
I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom. -- Cat Stevens
There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world. -- Paul Dirac
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens. -- Alan Watts
Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today. -- David Bohm
As soon as we step beyond the established boundaries of pure thermodynamic theory, we enter a trackless region confronting us with obstacles which even the most astute of us are almost at a loss to tackle. -- Wilhelm Wien
There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War. -- Dennis Prager
The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message. -- Pope John Paul II
If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm. -- Samantha Power
One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles. -- Ben Mendelsohn
The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success. -- Julian Baggini
Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to be human is to be flawed, is to be contradictory, is to be often weak, and yet despite all of these what we would consider drawbacks, that we're also quite beautiful. Spin is the opposite. -- Junot Diaz
Kosovo is now the biggest problem confronting Yugoslavia -- Josip Broz Tito
I might fear but never feared confronting the fears. -- Pushpa Rana
Only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them. -- Ellen Hopkins
Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man! -- Terry Pratchett
By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds. -- Lurlene McDaniel
The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism. -- Tony Blair
The greater the force of your compassion, the greeater your resilience in confronting hardships. -- Dalai Lama
Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats. -- Jalal Talabani
Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power -- Andrea Dworkin
Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us. -- Emma Goldman
The American people do not care which Party solves the problems confronting our nation. -- Arlen Specter
True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it. -- bell hooks
I've seen what you're going to understand, dear.It made me patient when confronting your temper. -- Toba Beta
See yourself confronting your fears in your mind's eye and handling those fears like a champ. -- Les Brown
Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities. -- Anthony Giddens
'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities. -- Anthony Giddens
I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality. -- Gene Weingarten
Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life. -- Robert Hayden
So the real question confronting you now is: How can you afford not to be in God's Word? -- Howard G. Hendricks
...I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most. -- David Archuleta
Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination -- George Jackson
When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence. -- ZoÃ« Heller
When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence. -- ZoÃ« Heller
If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them! -- Margaret Thatcher
I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage. -- Suzanne Finnamore
Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk. -- Sufjan Stevens
A problem is solved not by confronting it directly, but by going to a level where no problem exists. -- Deepak Chopra
We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq. -- Sam Brownback
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. -- Karl Marx
As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
The ostrich-approach of burying your head in the sand, when confronting your areas of weakness, becomes a self-set trigger for failure. -- Archibald Marwizi
But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you. -- Bret Easton Ellis
Modern Americans - shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media - like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes. -- Nina Easton
In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I'm very hopeful, very optimistic about the future. -- John Lewis
The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House. -- Jeff Goodell
We've got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions. -- George Carey
A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our paths -- Daisaku Ikeda
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. -- Jonathan Ive
By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life. -- Thomas More
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You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory. -- J. Donald Walters
Christianity israrely understood by those outside its bounds. In fact, this is probably one of the greatest tasks confronting the apologistâ??to rescue Christianity from misunderstandings. -- Alister E. McGrath
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. -- Marshall McLuhan
Success in confronting terrorism on the regional or international levels is contingent upon addressing its root causes and protecting the right of peoples under foreign occupation to resistance -- Farouk of Egypt
The most important thing to remember about confronting an irrational person is that they are usually attributing an inaccurate meaning to a situation causing them to react irrationally. -- Paul Colaianni
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]. -- Ronald Reagan
Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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. -- Tom DeLay
Being an unveiled wife is about confronting and crushing your fears; believing in truth more than in doubt, worry, or lies, and finding your security in God alone -- Jennifer Smith
I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting. -- Andrew Denton
Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts. -- Robert Kiyosaki
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. -- Kelseyleigh Reber
Maybe that is why there are not a whole lot of problems between the church and worldly culture today, because we are not confronting the culture around us. -- Paul Washer
There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger than them all. -- Antoinette Brown Blackwell
The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late. -- Barry Ritholtz
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. -- David de Kretser
Cyberspace is the battlefield of tomorrow... Instead of confronting us head-to-head on the traditional battlefield, adversaries will confront the U.S. at its point of least resistance- our information infrastructure. -- Fred Thompson
Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life. -- Stephen Greenblatt
Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend. -- Stephen King
We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully. -- Billy Graham
I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Particularly in periods of crisis, governments have the obligation to lead by good example! Instead, many in Europe are confronting this global challenge with a penny-pinching mentality that drives me crazy. -- Martin Schulz
We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations we have made to faith itself. -- Sam Harris
The child should love everything he learns. Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear. Once this love has been kindled, all problems confronting the educationalist will disappear. -- Maria Montessori
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If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures. -- Harry Allen Overstreet
A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together. -- Maxine Hong Kingston
Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and problems - that can all be listening to God too. -- Peter Kreeft
Transmit your vision emotionally by gaining credibility, demonstrating passion, establishing relationships and communicating a felt need. Transmit it logically by confronting reality, formulating strategy, accepting responsibility, celebrating victory and learning from defeat. -- John C. Maxwell
With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples. -- Benjamin Cardozo
Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit. -- Annie E. Clark
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. -- Wallace Shawn
It's a shame that we have to use whatever leverage we have in Congress to get the president to deal with the biggest problem confronting our future. And that's our excessive spending. -- Mitch McConnell
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. -- Brad Carson
A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties. -- Pope Francis
Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What we call art here, is the application of a knowledge to an action. -- Rene Daumal
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. -- George W. Bush
Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of being part of a rich and complex narrative. -- John Burnside
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!' -- Julia Ormond
The choices we make now will shape the future of not just our countries, but the world at large. We should intensify our cooperation in confronting global challenges like Terrorism, Cyber Security and Climate Change. -- Narendra Modi
Simplicity of living means meeting life face to face. It means confronting life clearly, without unnecessary distractions. It means being direct and honest in relationships of all kinds. It means taking life as it is. -- Duane Elgin
Russia has a common interest in confronting radical Islamic terrorism and especially ISIS. And if we have opportunities to work together I think President Trump is looking for an opportunity to begin that relationship anew. -- Mike Pence

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