Facing Things Quotes

#1. If she'd ever had any doubts that she loved him, really loved him, she knew now. It was easy to love somebody when love was happy, but when it was hard, when it meant facing things you feared ... that was different. He'd done it for her, many times. And now she had to do it for him.

Rachel Caine

#2. Anne's awfully sensitive,' said Rhoda. 'And she's bad about - well, facing things. If anything's upset her, she'd just rather not talk about it,

Agatha Christie

#3. The Art of Facing Things What people have forgotten is what every salmon knows. - ROBERT CLARK

Mark Nepo

#4. It's only by facing things that you ever put them behind you.
-Mrs. McConnell to Susan

Lois Duncan

#5. Those who ask without fear learn to say two things, with or without words, to those they are facing: I deserve to ask and You are welcome to say no. Because the ask that is conditional cannot be a gift.

Amanda Palmer

#6. We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don't have that problem because they're not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity.

Chris Noth

#7. You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.

Larry Ellison

#8. I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.

Albert Einstein

#9. Honestly facing your lack of sovereignty over your own life produces either anxiety or relief. Anxiety is God-forgetting. It is the result of thinking that is life is on your shoulders, that it is your job to figure it all out and keep things in order.

Paul David Tripp

#10. Life requires us to do things anyway, despite what sort of fear or monster or tragedy or suffering lurks behind that anyway.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#11. Synthetic biology can help address key challenges facing the planet and its population. Research in synthetic biology may lead to new things such as programmed cells that self-assemble at the sites of disease to repair damage.

Craig Venter

#12. Difficulties, opposition, criticism-these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm and I begin to wonder what I should do about it.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

#13. For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.

Cai Guo-Qiang

#14. We did hard things for each other. Risked our lives. Gave up our lives and faced death, and then faced life again. You might be surprised to find that facing life can be much harder than facing death.

Robin Hobb

#15. Realtechnik is skeptical about linear progress. It encourages humility, a state of mind in which we are most open to facing problems and reconsidering decisions. It helps us acknowledge costs and recognize the things we hold inviolate.

Sherry Turkle

#16. Facing sexism and racism and classism and transphobia, there are ways to choose to act in those situations, and there shouldn't be a prescriptive list of things that you have to say.

Kathleen Hanna

#17. Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing.

Joyce Meyer

#18. Falling hard for somebody makes you do things you never thought you'd do before. Like pulling off an A in History or finally facing the truth about yourself

Steve Kluger

#19. Facing my addiction was one of the hardest things I've had to do in my life.

Lynda Carter

#20. We're facing headwinds from Europe. Europe doing the right things here to stabilize their situation is important to our small businesses, our workers, the middle class here, and overall economy.

David Plouffe

#21. I think that when you're kind of just shoved out there and you have to be tough and you're facing tough people and people are saying bad things about you, that all of a sudden, you have to become a little less sweet.

Farrah Fawcett

#22. We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them.

Julian Barnes

#23. Maybe it was a consequence of reaching the end of the end, finding out the dark, mad, gleaming tale had concluded the only way it could in the real world
with mortal people doing mortal things, a father and daughter, facing their deaths.

Marisha Pessl

#24. Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

Joyce Meyer

#25. It was a fear that was all too easy to fall into when one's focus was too narrow. To be caught up in an environment, facing down a relentless torrent of negative experiences. Even the minor things added up, if you couldn't step back to look at things in perspective.

Wildbow

#26. I can't help but smile. This is so like you: to turn towards making things better, always facing the light instead of the darkness.

A.J. Waines

#27. Courage is a requirement for facing your fears, doing things differently, and applying any new habits that align with and support your goals.

John Manning

#28. Right now over 70 percent of the world population is convinced that something serious has to be done about the dangers facing the planet ... Most of humanity wants to know how to make the change. It's one of those tipping-point times where things can change unbelievably fast ...

Paul Ray

#29. If you think about the actual problems we are facing - all the crises - we have the means to solve these crises. The past has shown us we are able to do things we never imagined we would be able to do.

Neil Turok

#30. Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.

Lucy Powell

#31. Confidence comes from hard work. It comes from facing different situations and making putts. It comes from knowing you've worked on the right things, so when you get under the gun, you can execute what you've practiced.

David Duval

#32. I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics.

Michael Bennett

#33. Persistence is victory. Just . . . keep . . . going. It doesn't matter if things aren't going the way you thought they would or if you're facing a disappointment. The only defeat is in quitting. If you keep going, you're winning.

Mara Schiavocampo

#34. If someone is facing a difficult time, one of the kindest things you can do for him or her is to say, I'm just going to love you through this.

Molly Friedenfeld

#35. Our leaders were assassinated, one of the things I was reading today was - 28 Panthers were killed by the police but 300 Black Panthers were killed by other Panthers just within - internecine warfare. It just began to seem like we were in an impossible task given what we were facing.

Angela Davis

#36. Perfection may be an impossible goal, but habits help us to do better. Making headway toward a good habit, doing better than before, saves us from facing the end of another year with the mournful wish, once again, that we'd done things differently.

Gretchen Rubin

#37. I'm used to really struggling and facing a hard time to get things going, until I'm comfortable at all with them.

Seth Rogen

#38. Then again, when you were facing the right person? None of the things they talked about on television, no Vera Wang dress, no champagne waterfall, no DJ or place setting or party favor mattered. "'I,

J.R. Ward

#39. Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.

Italo Calvino

#40. Luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You don't have a boss in the cab with you, and you are not facing the people that you are making money from.

Fran Lebowitz

#41. My husband once said he'd never met anybody who walked so fast and ran so slowly. As I said, it's a little hard for me to try new things, and this was me facing a fear that I'd had my whole life. Since I had no experience running, I felt like a failure before I'd even begun.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#42. Antarctica, one of the things that was so remarkable about it was that the ice itself is a kind of pure geometry, so say, for example, if I was facing someone wearing I don't know, a Joy Division t-shirt with the mountains on it or something like that.

DJ Spooky

#43. The only way to survive is to intently focus on how the art world operates. Once you understand how things work, you can find a solution to the problems you are facing.

Mark Edward

#44. The way to transmute the pain of life is to reveal the wounded side of things, evil, even, and then place the wound inside of sacred space. The Bible is about naming, facing, and then forgiving the wounds of history.

Richard Rohr

#45. It's okay to have fear - we're all human; it happens - but in facing your fears, you can really open yourself up to things you never thought possible.

Katherine McNamara

#46. For one thing, one of the wonderful things that we now have is instead of the huge budget surpluses that President Clinton left us with, we now have these huge deficits that we're going to be facing into the future.

Geraldine Ferraro

#47. All thinking things fear. Sentience, perhaps, is facing that fear and conquering it rather than succumbing. A tiger will drown in a tar pit, but a man who can clear his thoughts may survive.

C.E. Murphy

#48. That was how I was going to get things back to normal - by working. I never thought I would use the words "working" and "normal" in the same sentence, but I'll try anything to avoid facing reality.

Gary Reilly

#49. Facing my mistakes from years ago has been one of the hardest things I've ever dealt with.

Justin Bieber

#50. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do."
And facing death changes that?
"Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials.

Mitch Albom

#51. There were worse things than death, as she'd discovered. Sometimes living took far more courage. Facing another day. Enduring. Those things took strength. Far more than dying.

Maya Banks

#52. Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It's facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause other people pain. Renunciation is a commitment to let go of things that create suffering. It is the intention to stop hurting ourselves and others.

Noah Levine

#53. Standing in the heat and noise, facing the rows of bent heads, Ethan Figman willed himself to leave that long sleep in which you dream that the inhuman things that people do to one another on a distant continent have nothing to do with the likes of you.

Meg Wolitzer

#54. This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

Warren Rudman

#55. Various kinds of self-forgetting, usually accompanied by illusions and myths, make it possible to live without the intransigent facing of death-in the sense of always thinking about it and what it means for life and the things dear in life-which is characteristic of a serious life.

Allan Bloom

#56. Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

Jose Mourinho

#57. As an actor, I relish and delight in doing things that I'm not necessarily the demographic for. This is a demographic that is touching the psyche of a certain age group, facing the real internal questions of people who are going through rites of passage into adulthood. It's earth-shaking stuff.

Ray Stevenson

#58. Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

Sarah Dessen

#59. For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

David Cameron