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No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea which belongs in the pulpit.
— Thurman Arnold
Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It shouldn't have to be said, " Arash went on, "but when confronted by crazy, Do Not Engage.
— Sylvia Day
I have finally come to realize that it's being forced to be honest with myself that's made my pain painful all along.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.
— Benjamin Graham
When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.
— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.
— Placido Domingo
Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite
— Gillian Flynn
we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.
— Patricia Crone
Confronted by seven tall, cloaked figures, dark and foreboding, all armed.
— Alan Dean Foster
After all the great religions have been preached and expounded, man is still confronted with the Great Mystery.
— Luther Standing Bear
I almost regret having to tell him this. No one should be confronted with the depths of darkness they're capable of all at once.
— Cristin Terrill
diagonally polarized photons are in a quantum quandary when confronted by a vertical Polaroid filter.
— Simon Singh
As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.
— Andre Malraux
When people are confronted with something they've never seen before, they really don't know how to react.
— Kirk Hammett
man Gil had confronted
— Paty Jager
Future is not to be feared but confronted -Halo — Alexandra Adornetto
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man public opinion. — Clarence Darrow
No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence.
— Steve Irwin
Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.
— P.D. Ouspensky
Confronted with the vision of a beautiful garden, we see something beautiful about ourselves.
— Jeff Cox
I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.
— Tab Hunter
Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.
— George Santayana
I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
— Jodi Rell
At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
— Aldous Huxley
When we are confronted with death, we become great actors. Great actors, nothing more.
— Sait Faik Abasiyanik
For me, 'The Kite Runner' became about a guy who's emotionally shut down because he hasn't confronted his past.
— Marc Forster
When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.
— Colin Wilson
Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.
— Patsy Kensit
in town. She confronted him and he protested too much for her comfort. Mum had very good intuition, and her suspicions were soon confirmed.
— Eileen Rockefeller
Evil must be confronted in its womb and, if it can't be done otherwise, then it has to be dealt with by the use of force.
— Vaclav Havel
All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.
— Derrick Bell
Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life.
— Herman Melville
It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, in fact, most people don't really work like that.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Sometimes in life you have to make difficult choices. The best time to make those choices is before you're confronted with them.
— Perry Morris
but one never really understood life in the New World until confronted with the actual rude experience.
— Michael Crichton
Fathers teach their best lessons to their children by the way they handle life when confronted with adversities. — Lynda Lovejoy
A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility.
— Nicky Wire
Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
— Margaret Halsey
A phased decision can avoid there being a key moment when the moral issue about killing civilians has to be confronted.
— Jonathan Glover
Everywhere man is confronted with fate, with the chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
— Viktor E. Frankl
When confronted with challenge,I discover my inner strength.
— Celeste Cooper
The great lesson of our time is that evil still exists, and when evil is on the march, it must be confronted.
— Stephen J. Solarz
Editing is a very tough period. You're confronted with yourself. It's a deep, dark, truthful mirror.
— Thomas Bidegain
So government did what government always does when confronted with an opposition which can't be brought down by fair and legal means. It cheated.
— Peter F. Hamilton
When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
A moral man is essentially dumbfounded when confronted by a man who is amoral - everything the latter does is met with a certain disbelief.
— Andrew Holleran
The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
After I won the title, I was confronted with the real world. People do not behave naturally anymore - hypocrisy is everywhere.
— Boris Spassky
Words are powerless when confronted by catastrophe; they're pitiable, wretched, and easily distorted
— Aharon Appelfeld
Paul confronted his son then, aiming the eyeless sockets at Leto. "Do you really know the universe you have created here?
— Frank Herbert
Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I'm afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?
— Candace Bushnell
Guilt is a spiritual pain in the soul that tells us something is evil and needs to be confronted and cleansed. To
— John F. MacArthur Jr.
Jenny Fields felt undone, the way only a person who has been careful can feel when confronted by a mistake.
— John Irving
Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.
— Berenice Abbott
Don't be afraid ... " We need this reassurance. Even for those of us who believe implicitly in angels, to be confronted by one is an awesome thing."
— Madeleine L'Engle
Being confronted with one's worst nightmares is both a way of testing your mental fortitude and seeing where your heart lies.
— Rachel Hawkins
You're the only man I know who makes the sign of the cross when confronted with broccoli.
— Simon R. Green
When one has suspected a thing for weeks, why is being confronted with stark evidence so much worse?
— Teresa Grant
There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.
— Alice Miller
I have the instinctive reaction of a Western man when confronted with sublimely incomprehensible. I grab my camera and start to photograph it
— Douglas Adams
A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption.
— Peter Dunne
When confronted with a major emotional trigger like this, I have two modes - fight or flight -
— Lex Martin
Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.
— I. F. Stone
The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand.
— Frederick Sommer
When farmers and ranchers are confronted by weather-related disasters that are beyond their control, we need to do something to help.
— Byron Dorgan
Confronted by something she couldn't explain, she pretended it wasn't there. Dude, ostrich much?
— Karen Marie Moning
To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury ...
— Richard Hofstadter
When I'd confronted him, he'd left me and, like a parasite finding a fresh host, moved in with her.
— Fleur Gaskin
It's good netiquette to avoid information that offends or challenge errors when confronted.
— David Chiles
Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.
— Fred Rogers
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
— Aleister Crowley
Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
— Al Sharpton
When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.
— Andy Andrews
The obscure unease that Pluto has always inspired, a dog owned by a mouse, daily confronted with the mutational horror of Goofy.
— Michael Chabon
These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
When confronted with a clear definition of what it is to be Mexican, we encounter ourselves in a never ending allegory of mixes and chaos.
— Gael Garcia Bernal
We are confronted by insurmountable opportunities." - Walt Kelly (Pogo)
— Eleanor Gustafson
The key to handling pressure is to enjoy it when you're confronted with it rather than worry about it too much.
— Steve Waugh
It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction ... [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.
— Gentry Lee
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
— Mahatma Gandhi
He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves.
— Terry Pratchett
For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
— Benjamin Carson
He had no notion of meeting danger half-way. When it came upon him, he confronted it, but it must come before he troubled himself.
— Charles Dickens
We only think when we are confronted with problems.
— John Dewey