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Quotes About Facing

Contemporary materialism is not a solution but a stubborn refusal to face up to the problem.
~ Philip Goff
Painted by a gentle dawn one is proud that like one's own planet now one will not wince at what one is facing, since putting up with nothing whose company we cannot lose hardens rocks and -rather fast- hearts as well. But rocks will last.
~ Joseph Brodsky
Yes. What you have here is what might be translated into raw individualism, you see, if you didn't realize that the center was also right there facing you in the other person. This is the mythological way of being an individual. You are the central mountain, and the central mountain is everywhere.
~ Joseph Campbell
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.' " "I figured you'd be in.
~ Ace Atkins
It doesn't hit you until you pull up to the hospital, and you see 'cancer' in big letters, and you're the patient. Then it all kind of comes home.
~ John Prine
I prayed to God from the bottom of my heart that this day would never come, but it has and we have to face it with courage and faith.
~ Piers Paul Read
Cinta itu indah, Minke, juga kebinasaan yang mungkin membututinya. Orang harus berani menghadapi akibatnya.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
It is the Labour party that has always sought to address the problems facing British Muslims, because we believe it is one of our primary functions to tackle the problems faced by the most vulnerable in our society.
~ Sadiq Khan
The thing that I get so often with network comedies - and, I think, some of the most brilliant people in the world do them - but it's easy to hide behind a joke. I kind of feel like when you have to face things, and you don't have humor, it becomes very vulnerable; it exposes your deepest and darkest fears in some aspects.
~ Kenya Barris
I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
~ Jaclyn Smith
Succeeding against an army of strawmen might feel good as a speech, but in reality, the world is filled with extraordinarily difficult challenges and very real consequences as a result of how we face them.
~ Pete Hoekstra
Let us honestly state the facts. Our America has a bad name for superficialness. Great men, great nations have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Azzal, hogy elfut a problémák elÅ'l, még nem oldja meg Å'ket.
~ Joseph Heller
If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.
~ Joss Whedon
Notice there's nothing provided to protect our backside! That's because God never intended us to run from our enemies. His plan was and still is that, with Him at our side, we confront any issue in our life that is a problem. People are so skilled at not facing real issues, and they're even better at trying to cover them up by living make-believe lives and inventing false personalities. It is time to take a stand and confront fear!
~ Joyce Meyer
Sometimes we have to face the things that hurt us most. Maybe you won't heal till you do. You haven't yet." They both knew that was true. "You can't move ahead until you bury the past.
~ Danielle Steel
But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter what sort of a state we're in.
~ Darren Shan
Global warming is part of natural cycle and there's nothing we can actually do to stop these cycles. The world is now facing spending a vast amount of money in tax to try to solve a problem that doesn't actually exist.
~ DAVID BELLAMY
Writing it all down was purging. Putting those stories on paper took them out of the nightmare realm and made me almost love myself for being able to finally face them. More subtly, it gave me a way to love the people I wrote about—even the ones I had fought with or hated.
~ Dorothy Allison
This is no time for refusing to look facts in the face.
~ Agatha Christie
It is always better to face the truth. It is no use evading unhappiness by tampering with facts.
~ Agatha Christie
No. It is always better to face the truth. It is no use evading unhappiness by tampering with facts.
~ Agatha Christie
You can't really spare anyone anything,' she said. 'Things always have to be faced sooner or later. And therefore it had better be sooner.
~ Agatha Christie
And most men can stand what they've got to stand, when it steps up and looks them straight in the eye. Like they're doing all over the world right now.
~ Raymond Chandler