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The blame for the 9/11 attacks lays squarely and exclusively with the Al-Qaeda network. -- Kay Granger
I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out. -- John Brown
Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land. -- Wole Soyinka
I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script. -- Alexis Denisof
Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue. -- Woody Allen
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. -- Michael Korda
Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace. -- Paul Robeson
What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way. -- Mary Hunter Austin
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. -- Martin Heidegger
Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego to get in the way. It's what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general. -- John Ortberg
I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I? -- Otto Dix
The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point. -- Eliot Spitzer
My feminism is what came squarely up against my faith. There's a lot of ecstatic post-patriarchal Christians who have stuff they do with that. But at that point, you're doing Christianity with a double-superscript. The Bible, and especially the book of Genesis, is pretty unapologetically patriarchal. -- John Darnielle
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. -- Orison Swett Marden
A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds. -- Bill Kurtis
Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its entirety at night, and as I've said before, then baseball will be squarely in the amusement, the entertainment business along with wrestling, midget auto racing and the trotting tracks. -- Larry MacPhail
In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium. -- Jonathan Larson
Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt. -- Warren G. Bennis
The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership, -- Chinua Achebe
Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation. -- Richard Dawkins
All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is. -- Gautama Buddha
Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers -- Stephen Fry
The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death. -- Albert Camus
When you decide to face your life squarely, you stop moving round in circles. -- Chinonye J. Chidolue
The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win. -- Vince Lombardi
Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude. -- Vladimir Lenin
Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular. -- Saul Alinsky
It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves -- Arthur Miller
I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out. -- John Brown
The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely. -- Ted Williams
I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely. -- Alexander Lowen
Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation. -- Francis Collins
There's nothing that America can't handle if we actually look squarely at the problem. ...Change depends on our actions. -- Barack Obama
Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence. -- Meredith L. Young-Sowers
Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I've tried to live so I can look squarely back at him. -- Harper Lee
Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found. -- Peace Pilgrim
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
There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. -- Mark Twain
Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience. -- Nancy Mairs
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I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another's river views -- John Cheever
I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another's river views. -- John Cheever
The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it. -- Horace Greeley
Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and realities. -- Peace Pilgrim
There's no faster way or surer way to consolidate power and disenfranchise critics than to operate in secret. So this plays squarely into the promotion of the unitary executive. That's one factor. -- Ted Gup
What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way. -- Mary Hunter Austin
The fact that we don't read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that are about a hundred times as big as the newspapers anywhere else. -- Bennett Cerf
There are things we could do like let Brad Dourif play Charles Lee Ray's brother or father , something like that, but I think any of those options would've been squarely in the horror-comedy realm. -- David Kirschner

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