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Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. -- Charles de Gaulle
This is my logo for Two-Faced -- Jarod Kintz
Faced with a choice, do both. -- Dieter Roth
Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived. -- Jonathan Sacks
Faced with intolerance and hatred, no debate is possible. -- Jacques Chirac
Faced with unmeasurables, people steer their way by magic. -- Denise Scott Brown
Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition. -- Marshall McLuhan
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself. -- Charles de Gaulle
Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles. -- Gerry Spence
Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas. -- T. S. Eliot
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. -- Confucius
Faced with a choice of stepping up or stepping it down, we are going to step it down. -- Bill McDermott
Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words. -- William S. Burroughs
Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth. -- Joseph Barbera
Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware. -- George Monbiot
Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude. -- Pope John Paul II
Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Steve Rom's bravery is unique. Faced with life-threatening circumstances, he focused his determination and spirit to defeat an unbeatable disease. Steve's story is an inspiration to all. -- Fred Dryer
When a boy's first romantic interlude is with Pheobe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out into the world and find a new life. -- Annette Curtis Klause
Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it. -- David Suzuki
Faced with the opportunity to become the category of one, we almost always hesitate, almost always compromise, almost always dumb it down to play it a little bit safer -- Seth Godin
Faced with the nonsense question 'What is the meaning of a word?' and perhaps dimly recognizing it to be nonsense, we are nevertheless not inclined to give it up. -- J. L. Austin
Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion. -- Johnnetta B. Cole
Faced with the way the system does you in the 'hood sometimes, if you don't literally get out, your chances are slim. You'll definitely die mentally. You'll pretty much die physically. -- Lupe Fiasco
You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced. -- Jay Weatherill
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced. -- Edward Norton
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. -- John W. Gardner
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. -- Maya Angelou
Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage. -- Julia Cameron
I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems. -- Whitney Houston
The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends. -- Joel Osteen
Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence. -- Charles Krauthammer
Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with. -- Adam Ant
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. -- Derek Walcott
I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane. -- Kristin Davis
Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives. -- Gunter Grass
When Americans are faced with the prospect that they can never earn their way to wealth, they have two choices: to rebel against the system, or to settle into depressed complacency. -- Ben Shapiro
Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-familiar and tragic cycle, and our nation is now faced with a set of unprecedented challenges. -- Jo Bonner
People face difficulties, no matter who you are. I faced difficulties with a lot of things. I face opposition every day, but I didn't kill myself and now, thank God, I'm here. -- Nicki Minaj
When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence. -- Bruce Feiler
One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going. -- Ella Baker
Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world... Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe. -- Irving Penn
Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity. -- Ricky Martin
I have for some time now been deeply troubled by the growing difficulties faced by Christian communities in various parts of the Middle East. It seems to me that we cannot ignore the fact that Christians in the Middle East are increasingly being deliberately targeted by fundamentalist Islamist militants. -- Prince Charles
I faced odds when glaucoma took the bat out of my hands. But I didn't give in or feel sorry for myself. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: 'It may be cloudy in my right eye, but the sun is shining very brightly in my left eye.' -- Allan Ray
When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character. -- Bobby Bowden
He is white-livered and red-faced. -- William Shakespeare
Look twice at a two-faced man. -- Chief Joseph
You dropped this," he said, totally poker-faced. -- Rick Riordan
When faced without a challenge, make one -- Peter Diamandis
When faced with the choice, choose happy -- Valerie Bertinelli
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Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate ... -- Emma Lazarus
When faced with disaster, learn to laugh faster. -- Robert G. Allen
I was faced more with apathy than opposition. -- Adrian Cronauer
Don't face the day until you've faced God. -- Maya Angelou
When faced with defeat, rise to your feet! -- Dr. Dre
I've faced worse things in my life than prison -- CeCe McDonald
Nothing shows lack of conscience better than bold-faced lying. -- Bob Altemeyer
Life is nothing unless death has been faced down. -- David Gemmell
I've faced worse than a dressmaker who breaths fire. -- Jessica Day George
Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world! -- James Dashner
When faced with trouble, never give up. You will win. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? -- Abraham Lincoln
Reality in our century is not something to be faced. -- Graham Greene
I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head. -- Ken Kesey
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us. -- Teresa of Avila
Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope. -- Maya Angelou
I faced Gibson many times and faced Sandy Koufax three times. -- Juan Marichal
When faced with a difficult situation, do not panic but pray! -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Greatness is a two-faced coin - and the reverse is humility. -- Marguerite Steen
When faced with something I fear, I tend to eat spaghetti. -- Mark Helprin
The present is only faced in any generation by the artist. -- Marshall McLuhan
I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan. -- Robin Yount
What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross? -- Richard Matheson
God understands how you feel and has faced what you face. -- Max Lucado
When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. -- Lee Iacocca
The work of restoration cannot begin until a problem is fully faced. -- Dan B. Allender
When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence -- Mahatma Gandhi
I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move. -- Lance Loud
I promise to love and cherish each of my sweet-faced fans forever -- Michael Jackson
This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced. -- Al Gore
If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty. -- Marilyn Monroe
Every challenge, I have faced, dares me to seek a higher power. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Though I am faced with many adversities, my heart will not faint. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Men who leave their money to be distributed by others are pie-faced mutts, -- George Eastman
America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching. -- Nick Clooney
Every successful person has faced, attacked, and conquered adversity somewhere along the way. -- David Cottrell
It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish. -- Jules Renard
Until you've faced a crowd of graduating seniors, you have not experienced apathy ... -- Gillian Roberts
from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship -- Amiri Baraka
The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to... New Orleans. -- Richard Burr
You're not supposed to get rattled in poker; you're supposed to remain poker-faced! -- Jason Gedrick
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. -- Isaac Asimov
I could not tell Himmler everything because he was too false and two-faced. -- Walter Schellenberg
Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge. -- William Zinsser
Blessed are you, who faced many adversities. You will be strengthen and soften. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I was the ghost-faced killer for Halloween in the third or fourth grade. -- Rory Culkin
I think people have all faced decisions at times where you never know. -- Brett Favre
When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind. -- Anne Lamott
We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.... -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Climate change: We have never faced a more critical time on our planet -- Richard Leakey
Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it. -- Katharine Brush
Worry is a mean-faced dwarf who beats on your heart like a kettledrum. -- Kevin Brockmeier
It is vital that we raise awareness of the risks faced by drug misusers. -- Ian McCartney
One does not contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy. -- Christoph Waltz
So even though I couldn't bear writing about cancer, I faced it every day. -- Natalie Goldberg
If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable. -- Murray Bookchin
The most difficult adversary I have ever faced happens to look just like me. -- Johnnie Dent Jr.
Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life. -- Jose Saramago
If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in. -- Andy Grove
My friends back home call me a warrior. In fact I'm a butterfly-faced warrior. -- DeeDee Trotter
The most difficult challenge that Governments have faced since the dinosaurs roamed the earth. -- David Chaytor
I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous. -- Leslie Nielsen

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