Confronting Quotes - Page 2

• By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.

  Thomas More

  Spiritual, Soul, Vision

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• With the defeat of the Reich and pending the emergence of the Asiatic, the African and, perhaps, the South American nationalisms, there will remain in the world only two Great Powers capable of confronting each other-the United States and Soviet Russia. The laws of both history and geography will compel these two Powers to a trial of strength, either military or in the fields of economics and ideology. (2nd April 1945)

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Russia, Law

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• The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism.

  Tony Blair

  Important, Terrorism, Britain

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• Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Catholic, Way, Ghost

  "An interview about Will in the World". "Bookworm" with Michael Silverblatt, stephengreenblatt.com. March 16, 2013.

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• So the real question confronting you now is: How can you afford not to be in God's Word?

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Real, Study, Real Questions

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book/Living By the Book Workbook Set”, p.14, Moody Publishers

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• A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this means is that we must address trees as we must address all things, confronting them in the awareness that we are in the presence of numinous mystery.

  Brian Swimme

  Mean, Self, Roots

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• At a time when threats to the physical environment have never been greater, it may be tempting to believe that people need to be mounting the barricades rather than asking abstract questions about the human place in nature. Yet without confronting such questions, it will be hard to know which barricades to mount, and harder still to persuade large numbers of people to mount them with us. To protect the nature that is all around us, we must think long and hard about the nature we carry inside our heads.

  William Cronon

  Believe, Thinking, Numbers

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• Kosovo is now the biggest problem confronting Yugoslavia.

  Josip Broz Tito

  Yugoslavia, Problem, Kosovo

  "Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War". Book by Julie Mertus, August 9, 1999.

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• Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the soul - forcing us to define ourselves and our relationship to the world.

  Matthew Scully

  Animal, Soul, Guilt

  Matthew Scully (2003). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.305, Macmillan

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• Adventure is something out of the usual pattern, a point at which you cannot avoid confronting the unknown, so that you have to dig inside yourself to find the courage and resources to deal with what may lie ahead, and to succeed.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Lying, Adventure, Usual

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• Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

  David D. Burns

  Fear, Perfection, Humans

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• As a Jew and a psychologist, I understand the stress that religious communities feel in connection with questioning of circumcision... I raise these questions out of deep caring and compassion, for our community generally, and our male infants in particular. We are inflicting, generally, unrecognized harm with circumcision, and the perpetuation of this harm is far greater a concern than the discomfort that comes from confronting the advisability of this practice. Many Jews who do not circumcise in North America, South America, Europe, and Israel support this view.

  Ronald Goldman

  Religious, Stress, Caring

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• I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.

  Michael Trucco

  Birthday, Airplane, Interest

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• I have a really hard time stepping out of a limousine and confronting a sh*tload of photographers who are all screaming at you, because it's like saying, 'yeah, yeah, here I am!'

  Julia Ormond

  Hard Times, Here I Am, Photographer

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• As science is more and more subject to grave misuse as well as to use for human benefit it has also become the scientist's responsibility to become aware of the social relations and applications of his subject, and to exert his influence in such a direction as will result in the best applications of the findings in his own and related fields. Thus he must help in educating the public, in the broad sense, and this means first educating himself, not only in science but in regard to the great issues confronting mankind today.

  Hermann Joseph Muller

  Mean, Responsibility, Science

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• There is no doubt in my mind that this is the greatest problem confronting mankind at this time and that it has reached the level of a state of emergency.

  David de Kretser

  Doubt, Mind, Levels

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• There are some historians who say that democratic republics dont last more than 200 years. Well, weve got to show that you can last more than 200 years. Weve got to continue to sustain the system, and the only way you can do it is by sustaining the constitution and by confronting lies face to face, head on, aggressively.

  Maurice Hinchey

  Lying, Years, Republic

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• Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Motivational, Peace, Wall

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• Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Home, Eye, Degrees

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• A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

  Marie Curie

  Children, Fairy Stories, Hair

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse, November 30, 1936.

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• Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death - ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.

  James A. Baldwin

  Passion, Army, Sacrifice

  "Letter from a Region of My Mind". The New Yorker, November 17, 1962. Republished in "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin as "Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind", 1963.

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• Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.

  Emma Goldman

  Trifles

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

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• When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.

  Zoë Heller

  Existence, Possession, Thinness

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• The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.

  Pope John Paul II

  Religious, Communication, Men

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• I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I was beginning to sense that to stare into the heart of such a fearful mystery wasn't a bad thing. To be afraid is a priceless education. P 99

  Lance Armstrong

  Heart, Facts, Priceless

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