Everyday the opportunity exists to change your life. But most days, the idea of having to change the big things in life just seems like too much work. Should I lie on the couch and watch a movie, or shuld I confront my personal demons?
Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?
Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field.
You have a responsibility to confront the war games - the American killing machine.
Without an understanding of the issue of race and a willingness to confront it head on, the working class will not build its strength.
We cannot point to a single definitive solution of any one of the problems that confront us — political, economic, social or moral, that is, having to do with the conduct of life. We are still beginners, and for that reason may hope to improve. To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind. There is no need to be dismayed by the fact that we cannot yet envisage a definitive solution of our problems, a resting-place beyond which we need not try to go.
You cannot change what you refuse to confront.
We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.
The reason we don't often confront the larger question of whether or not war is survivable is because of a failure of imagination. We honestly cannot imagine having reached a state in our own evolution in which we do not fight.
The public feels that if it's on the Internet and you can access it, you deserve it. You haven't committed any kind of crime. We may even have to rename piracy. But in any case, we have to confront it.
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago. [. . . ] The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the Iron Curtain that divided Germany and Europe, and indeed the world, into two blocs.
Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.
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.
But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.
Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
We must confront the reality that his [Donald Trump] comments have provoked, and consider whether we want to import such hatred to this country.
As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.
No one country can confront them alone…the only way forward is together.
Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.