Top 100 Confront Quotes
#1. Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people of color when reacting to the [racist] event.
Eileen O'Brien
#2. I have a feeling of - wanting to confront my enemies. No, of wanting to confront the enemy part of my friends.
James Kirkwood Jr.
#3. I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.
Nina Bawden
#4. You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.
J. D. Hayworth
#5. At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is.
Michel Foucault
#6. I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.
Damien Hirst
#7. Anger, [Evagrius] wrote, is given to us by God to help us confront true evil. We err when we use it casually, against other people, to gratify our own desires for power or control.
Kathleen Norris
#8. You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like Rembrandt and Vermeer, it's not completely a matter of opinion. The pictures confront you, and you see exactly what it is. In modern art, a lot of it is suggestive, and it becomes a matter of opinion.
Peter Saul
#9. Need was a funny thing; you were never sure if you had it by the tail or the jaw. Being needed forced her to find strength; being needed too much forced her to confront failure.
Michelle Sagara
#10. As we try to make the financial system safer, we must inevitably confront the problem of moral hazard.
Ben Bernanke
#11. Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol.
Allen West
#12. My lady, don't you think you might be over-extending yourself? You've decided to confront the gyorn, liberate the court women from masculine oppression, save Arelon's economy, and feed Elantris. Perhaps you should just let this man's subterfuge go unexplored.
Brandon Sanderson
#13. To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do."
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Walt Whitman
#14. Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.
Hannah Arendt
#15. We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
J. William Fulbright
#16. We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!
Maya Angelou
#17. Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.
Barack Obama
#18. They were self-effacing people who constantly asked questions and had the ability to confront the most brutal answers - that is, to look failures in the face, even their own, while maintaining faith that they would succeed in the end.
Carol S. Dweck
#19. Even now, over a half-century later, the engraved words stirred emotions in him he would rather not confront.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#20. It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?
Terry Eagleton
#21. To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang.
Adam Arkin
#22. Confession and ordinary counselling can satisfactorily help to resolve most of the issues that confront people on a daily basis. Some
Lazar Puhalo
#23. To finally confront the worst there is, to look it squarely in the face and say, I know you. You have hurt me, almost to death, but still I live. And I will go on living.
Robin Hobb
#24. Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them with difficult choices
Amin Maalouf
#25. Do not confront me with my failures, I have not forgotten them. - Nico (Royal Tenenbaums)
Remy Charlip
#26. Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront.
John Negroponte
#27. The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#28. People will believe thousands of different lies in succession rather than confront a single scintilla of truth.
Steve Hely
#29. As I came down the stairs, all attention turned from the girls, and everyone looked to me as though this were some sort of drama taking place on a stage, and I was the scorned lover come to confront my erstwhile beloved.
I was not. I was just a whore, nothing else. Nothing more.
Aislinn Kerry
#30. You cannot change what you refuse to confront.
John Spence
#31. What makes you so dare to challenge me, kiddo?
It ain't about you, Sir. I just wanna confront my fear.
Toba Beta
#32. So friends, get out of your comfort zone. Don't be afraid of pain. Confront your pains
Sunday Adelaja
#33. If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood and be forced to confront human limitation for what it is: a fixture of life.
Jonathan Franzen
#34. Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the "enemies" who appear from time to time in our lives.
Dalai Lama XIV
#35. If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.
Agatha Christie
#36. I was desperate not to confront the fact that this really could be it - that "nineteen" didn't matter, that there really was a point at which even young bodies fail. I was not immortal.
Aspen Matis
#37. When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
Philip Yancey
#38. Not that I lack confidence in the outcome," Ferrin said, "but would you consider entrusting the piece of my neck to somebody who is not about to confront one of the most deadly beings in the world?
Brandon Mull
#39. For me, integrity is the consistency of words and actions. Part of the way that you do that is to ask people questions on some of the most difficult issues that you confront. 'Take me through where you felt you had to compromise your values.'
Kenneth Chenault
#40. I want to be the voice of change and hope. I want to confront the big challenges this country faces.
David Cameron
#41. O thank you, Uncle Omar. Thank you for instilling a helpless youth with such grave suspicions of women and all their works, that here and now, in my maturity, in my thirty-second year, I cannot confront a lovely and half-naked lady without getting cramps in my toes and saying gahr.
John D. MacDonald
#42. Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.
Elliott Abrams
#43. Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.
Sun Tzu
#44. The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.
David Toop
#45. To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.
H.L. Mencken
#47. In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.
Adolf Hitler
#48. True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#49. If you keep finding yourself in the same situations, the Universe is prompting you to confront self! YOU are the common denominator.
Sanjo Jendayi
#50. The handling of a problem seems to be simply the increase of ability to confront the problem and when the problem can be totally confronted it no longer exists.
L. Ron Hubbard
#51. We can follow the example of those who remembered that the role of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as much integrity as possible, but rather to confront and take down those systems.
Derrick Jensen
#52. Like all art, nonfiction film should invite, seduce, or force us to confront the most difficult, frightening or mysterious aspects of what it means to be human.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#53. I claim the right to be who I want to be. Regardless of my choice, I will find those who agree and those who don't. I will gain support, and I will confront opposition, but I will stand firmly as me.
It is my choice.
It is the only real choice I have to make.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#54. Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.
Marianne Williamson
#55. Miss Greaves drifted behind them, silent as a wraith. He had the most persistent urge to turn and confront her - make her say something to him.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#56. I was scared of the way I felt as I ran away, knowing that if I stopped, I might have to confront the reason I was always running - and I'd have to admit that there was no reason. Run, run, run. Was it toward something or away from something else?
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#57. Someone must stand up to confront and dissipate darkness.
Sunday Adelaja
#58. It was time to confront the old bat with the damage she'd caused this time. Then, he promised himself, he'd strangle her for meddling in affairs that were none of her business, and kidnapping a goddamn innocent fairy.
Eden Ashe
#59. Here is the answer to every problem that will confront you, today and tomorrow and throughout time. In
Foundation For Inner Peace
#60. Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based political resentments.
Tim Wise
#61. We are not capable of union with one another on the deepest level until the inner self in each one of us is sufficiently awakened to confront the inmost spirit of the other.
Thomas Merton
#62. Our greatest problems in life come not so much from the situations we confront as from our doubts about our ability to handle them.
Susan L. Taylor
#63. The moral dilemma that the little mermaid must confront - that she can only live by killing the one she loves - is the ethical choice at the heart of love. The other person, their identity and feelings, can be sacrificed for our pleasure.
Rod Dubey
#64. We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.
John R.W. Stott
#65. We should never shy away from the challenges that face us out of fear of failure or an unwillingness to battle the odds. We should confront our problems head on and make no excuses.
Kyle Maynard
#66. wild discipline by a dozen red-shirted men. The remaining half of the black-armored Arsiyah dismounted to confront the barred gate. They could not know, as Zelikman saw plainly from the top of the rise, that the Rus had abandoned, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say they
Michael Chabon
#67. In other words Jesus went into the desert to confront His enemy and throw down the gauntlet. He would prove Himself to be the legitimate shepherd of Israel by overcoming the temptations that had undone all of Israel's previous kings, including His mighty ancestor, King David.
Charles R. Swindoll
#68. The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you're most afraid of.
David D. Burns
#69. Winning is an effect of trying. You have to want it badly enough to go through pain, discipline, and failure to find it. To confront it. To claim it. But most of all, you have to fight for it. Everything else - anything else - is absolute surrender
Chelsea Fine
#70. Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday.
Amish Tripathi
#71. Without economic growth and job creation in Mexico, we won't be able to confront the migratory phenomenon.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
#72. We need to confront the life-killing stereotype that says we're all about suffering. We need to bear witness to our pleasures.
Harriet McBryde Johnson
#73. To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.
Johannes Tauler
#74. All the problems of heaven and earth, though they were to confront us together and at once, would be nothing compared with that overwhelming problem of God: That He is; what He is like; and what we as moral beings must do about Him.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#75. The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the equations don't work.
Brian Greene
#77. Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive ... to live now ... to have the courage to confront each day.
Bernie Siegel
#78. I admit. I confess. I confront. The three likely phrase to live stressless.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#79. You cannot change what you will not confront.
T.D. Jakes
#80. History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.
P.D. James
#81. I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
Barbara Walters
#82. Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field.
John Mott
#83. How is it that we can entrust the solutions for the problems that confront our country today to those who are complicit in their creation?
Cynthia McKinney
#84. We shall remain prisoners of culture unless we become aware of the process and force ourselves to confront it and to deprogram it.
John Howard Griffin
#85. It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.
Kirstie Alley
#86. The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.
Hillary Clinton
#87. A conscious fruit fly would have to confront exactly the same difficulties, the same kind of insoluble problems as man.
Emil Cioran
#88. To be strong, you have to know your weaknesses, confront them, and ultimately accept them. A person isn't strong because they lack weakness but because they don't let it guide them.
Nicole Williams
#89. A lot of my fears and anxieties are the fears and anxieties of a six-year-old boy. When I finally confront them, they're really small.
Bill Burr
#90. We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.
Carl Mydans
#91. The great allure of government programs in general for many people is that these programs allow decisions to be made without having to worry about the constraints of prices, which confront people at every turn in a free market.
Thomas Sowell
#92. Yes, it was possible that the little world, on its voyage among all the stars, might become like that; a boat on which one could travel no longer, from which one could no longer look up and confront those bright rings of revolution.
Willa Cather
#93. Nothing so stubborn could change until it became more painful to avoid than to confront.
Edward St. Aubyn
#94. It is people's willingness to take personal risks and confront the powerful by daring to speak the truth, not the truth itself, that ultimately leads to change.
Ivan Krastev
#95. If we enter into ourselves, find our true self, and then pass beyond the inner "I", we sail forth into the immense darkness in which we confront the "I AM" of the Almighty.
Thomas Merton
#96. Available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.
Marianne Williamson
#97. But then I stopped allowing myself to dream, because it was more painful to long for things and never get them than to deal with whatever was in front of me. [ ... ] I'm too old to hear confront nonsense anymore. Too old to believe that everything will be alright.
Veronica Roth
#98. I think that grief is a profound spiritual, metaphysical, and - oddly - physical reckoning with death, which we don't understand well. It's both the process by which you relearn the world in the absence of someone who was a pillar in it, and the process in which you confront the reality of death.
Meghan O'Rourke
#99. There's no need to let your family know the details of what you throw out or donate. You can leave communal spaces to the end. The first step is to confront your own stuff.
Marie Kondo
#100. I have always wanted a solo career, deep in the darkest pit of myself, but I didn't dare admit it to myself even. It took me a long time to confront my fears.
Geri Halliwell
