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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
I want to confront myself. I challenge and doubt myself. Basically, what I don't like is to get bored.
I'm not even scared of the devil. If the devil confronted me, I'd confront him as well.
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.
The silent thing onstage allows for a kind of intimacy that no conversation can have. If I just shut up, we're forced to look at each other and really confront that moment.
The money from wealthy nations to confront some very real global poverty and economic issues is largely given out of guilt.
Fear depends on time for it's strength! Confront that which you fear with speed.
Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.
It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront, but I don't see enough people up in arms about that. We need to be.
Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps.
True leadership knows not to go to extremes but knows how to confront and appreciate challenges.
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.
All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.
Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.
In pursuing reform, we have to navigate uncharted waters. We may also have to confront protracted problems because we will have to shake up vested interests.
The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.
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.
I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.
The idea of ignoring your past, only to confront it later in life, is a familiar experience whether you come here from Hungary or French Canada or Ireland.
I want to be the voice of change and hope. I want to confront the big challenges this country faces.
We are not in prison so we are free and happy? No. We're in a different kind of prison in this life. We have to confront it, and we have to liberate Istanbul and ourselves, as well.
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.
There's a thing you confront when you're going into something new and you come to this sort of abyss, and then you push yourself. It makes you try different things.
We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and reproductive health
In the interweave of mind and body, dance is a mode that allows people to work through difficulties, anticipate the future, recollect the past, and confront the present.
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.
I know of no better answer to the foul practices that confront our young people than the teachings of a mother, given in love with an unmistakable warning.
We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.
Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.
To live the life you've always wanted, you must confront the issues you've always avoided.
What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.
At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is.
Sometimes the best thing we can ask for is change, and a fresh start forces us to confront change head-on.
Forced to confront a reptile or an international financial crisis, I'll take the reptile every time.
Many of us stay in situations that don't serve us because we don't want to confront the fact that we've failed.
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?
America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists.
If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them!
Many good journalists have attempted to confront Trump about his many lies and failures, and have failed.
Look, pain is there in the world, and there's catharsis through that. I feel like there's... a rapture, if we can get through it, if we can confront things.
I'm definitely old-school when it comes to dating. I'm not into the 'game' so much. If I like you, I'll confront you and be open about it. Then I expect you to come after me.
My professional background has prepared me for a moment like this - to confront and defeat a deadly virus that threatens Americans and people around the globe.
The overall concept of 'Only You' is a reflection on the illusion of love, how we confront, understand and manifest our self identities within relationships.
To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.
In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge of sustaining both--without losing either.
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
One of the hardest challenges posed by the modern world is how to deal with abundance. It's even harder to confront because admitting that it's a problem seems spoiled.
When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.
I prefer to be someone who has to confront his many fears instead of someone who has the illusion he doesn't fear anything
We do need to confront evil in this world, but we do need to work with the other nation.
But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
I prefer to write about ordinary people who find themselves in a singularly bizarre situation - that is to say, the one moment in their lives when they are forced to confront danger or mystery.
The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.
Having children made me confront my true fears and trust in God many times over in a much more intensified manner.
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.
... new EU embassies lack the expertise in the field of culture and given the budget cuts in all Member States it is important to confront this challenge together.
I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.
