Confronting Quotes - Page 7

• These are people that don't want to protect the American people... [T]hey will do anything, spend all the time and resources they can, to avoid confronting evil.

  Tom DeLay

  Evil, People, Hey

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• As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Grace, Guilt, Debt

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1975). “The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life”

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• Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure; if they obstruct it, they are characterized as simply villainous or cowardly. Hence every typical character...tends to have his moral opposite confronting him, like black and white pieces in a chess game.

  Northrop Frye

  Character, Black And White, Opposites

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• Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man!

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Littles

  "Thief Of Time". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2001.

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• Transmit your vision emotionally by gaining credibility, demonstrating passion, establishing relationships and communicating a felt need. Transmit it logically by confronting reality, formulating strategy, accepting responsibility, celebrating victory and learning from defeat.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Passion, Responsibility

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• The trick is not escaping your fear, but confronting it and allowing it to drive and teach you. Only by getting to the bottom of your fears can you find their valuable lessons and move forward stronger than before.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Moving, Escaping

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• Many writers struggle with exposition in their novels. Often they heap it on in large chunks of straight narrative. Back story – what happens before the novel opens – is especially troublesome. How can we give the essentials and avoid a mere information drop?
  Use dialogue. First, create a tension-filled scene, usually between two characters. Get them arguing, confronting each other. Then you can have the information appear in the natural course of things.

  James Scott Bell

  Struggle, Writing, Character

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• A problem is solved not by confronting it directly, but by going to a level where no problem exists.

  Deepak Chopra

  Levels, Problem, No Problem

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• Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power

  Andrea Dworkin

  Bravery, Feminism, Males

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• I have come to Germany to learn at first hand the problems involved in the reconstruction of Germany and to discuss with our representatives the views of the United States Government as to some of the problems confronting us.

  James F. Byrnes

  Government, Views, Hands

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• Confronting this regime and opposing Zionists are a national duty, as well as religious and Islamic duty, and a human duty. Even the people of Europe and America despise the Zionists. They hate them. They feel humiliated by the Zionists, who are a burden on them.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Religious, Hate, Islamic

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• ...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of nihilism and has nihilistic implications. I will not pretend that the case against nihilism and for civilization is an easy one to make. We are here confronting the most fundamental of philosophical questions, on the deepest levels. In short, the matter of pornography and obscenity is not a trivial one, and only superficial minds can take a bland and untroubled view of it.

  Irving Kristol

  Philosophical, Views, Civilization

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• By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains refute our excessive trust in the man-made. They pose profound questions about our durability and the importance of our schemes. They induce, I suppose, a modesty in us.

  Robert Macfarlane

  Men, Profound, Mountain

  Robert MacFarlane (2009). “Mountains Of The Mind”, p.275, Granta

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• Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.

  Margaret Spellings

  Education, Numbers, Challenges

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• My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite embarrassing, it's quite unpleasant, it's quite awkward.

  Wallace Shawn

  People, Awkward, Style

  W. Davies King, Wallace Shawn (1997). “Writing Wrongs: The Work of Wallace Shawn”, p.23, Temple University Press

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• I have that gene mutation too and it’s not something I would believe in for myself. I wouldn’t call it the brave choice. I actually think it’s the most fearful choice you can make when confronting anything with cancer. My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It’s the stress that will turn that gene on or not.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Stress, Cancer, Believe

  "Rippin’ & tearin’ & strippin’". Interview with Joey DiGuglielmo, www.washingtonblade.com. June 13, 2013.

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• The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens... within I don't know how many years, but in not too long a time, it's going to become basic common sense that you are not some alien being who confronts an external world that is not you, but that almost every intelligent person will have the feeling of being an activity of the entire universe.

  Alan Watts

  Intelligent, Years, Taught Us

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• We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Ostriches, Hands, Issues

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• Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What we call art here, is the application of a knowledge to an action.

  Rene Daumal

  Art, Climbing, Mountain

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• Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and problems - that can all be listening to God too.

  Peter Kreeft

  Pain, Simple, Listening To Others

  Peter Kreeft (1990). “Prayer: The Great Conversation : Straight Answers to Tough Questions about Prayer”, p.34, Ignatius Press

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• Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear, striking his imagination. Once this love has been kindled, all problems confronting the educationist will disappear.

  Maria Montessori

  Beautiful, Children, Problem

  "To Educate the Human Potential".

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• We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.

  Sam Brownback

  Iraq, Aggressive, Syria

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• There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger than them all.

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

  Eye, Men, Angry Man

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• We have certain rules for traditional lyric poetry in Korea. I twist my body, confused by what to say and how to act, facing these rules. Confronting traditional lyricism, I speak with a bare body without the tattoos of culture on it.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Tattoo, Confused, Korea

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties.

  Pope Francis

  Moving, Order, Steps

  Pope Francis (2016). “The Name of God Is Mercy”, p.50, Random House

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