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Quotes About Facing

When you confront the monster you
~ David D. Burns
By ostentation and propinquity to the throne, small men are able to avoid facing their own inadequacy.
~ David Eddings
Of course there has to be an end,' she said. 'Of course. For that is what everyone has faced since the world began. And that is – what do you call it? – intolerable. It's intolerable! So you must not think of it. You must not face it. Because it is a – certainty it has to be forgotten. One cannot – must not – fear a certainty.
~ Winston Graham
Nadie rezará un kaddish por Weinstein -Harriet, ¿Cuál ha sido nuestro error? -Jamás nos enfrentamos a la realidad. -No fue mía la culpa. Dijiste que estaba al norte. -La realidad está al norte, Ike. -No, Harriet. Los sueños están al norte. La realidad está al oeste. Las falsas esperanzas, al este, y creo que Luisiana está al sur.
~ Woody Allen
I musn't run away.
~ Hideaki Anno
The end of a gun looks very big and very back when it's staring you in the face.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
You're facing it now, and it's never too late.
~ Unknown
It's easier to run Replacing this pain with something numb It's so much easier to go Than face all this pain here all alone.
~ Unknown
Truly, we do live on a 'water planet.' For us, water is that critical issue that we need. It's the most precious substance on the planet, and it links us to pretty much every environmental issue, including climate change, that we're facing.
~ Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
Running away from any problem only increases the distance from the solution. The easiest way to escape from the problem is to solve it.
~ Unknown
And in my case I kept thinking, If I only was stronger mentally, psychologically, and everything, to bear these responsibilities. And in point of fact there was no way anybody could stand that situation. No way. It was not an indication of psychological weakness. It was an indication of not facing reality, but a peculiar kind, you see.
~ Philip K Dick
Who was that?" said Will, trembling, facing the two angels. "That was Metatron," said Balthamos.
~ Philip Pullman
The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.
~ David Gemmell
We cannot hide behind high walls, our hearts trembling. For that is not life. We must accept the needs and the duties of each day, and face them one at a time.
~ David Gemmell
I need to be doing something, because doing nothing is just as harmful as facing danger head-on.
~ David Levithan
The beginning of a solution to a problem is never far away. All you have to do is ask. That's not weakness. That's the strength of knowing that you have to face your problems.
~ Unknown
We are soldiers, Highness. We understand tomorrow could be the last day. Or the day after. A soldier has so little control over the time or manner of his ending. He can always choose how he faces it.
~ Conn Iggulden
Lord, reveal what holds my mind hostage. Show me what I fear the most. Go ahead, help me face what terrifies me.
~ Craig Groeschel
the essence of some stories lies precisely in this: they do not change, but remain like citadels or lighthouses facing the irresistible assault of time
~ Unknown
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
~ D. H. Lawrence
We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.
~ Aleksander Kwasniewski
In fact, few landowners of his rank seem to understand what they're facing." "But you and Lord Trenear do?" West grinned suddenly. "No, we don't either. The only difference is, we know it.
~ Lisa Kleypas
What we deny owns us. You can't control what you don't first own and face. You simply delay the moment it owns you.
~ Lisa Renee Jones
World don't turn backward. Turns forward. Future belongs to the man that faces hisself straight on.
~ Unknown