Confronts Quotes

You don't have all that many rights when a police officer confronts you, but when you exercise them, they become very powerful. - Tom Farrell

You can't wear it out. It'll never die. It watches you while you sleep. It confronts you around every corner. It chases you down like a running dog. - Jim Goad

Writing, like dreams, confronts, pushes you up against the evasions, self-deceptions, investments in opinions and interpretations, the clutter that blinds, that disguises that underlying, all-encompassing design. . . - Toni Cade Bambara

While largely unnoticed by investors, global urbanization is going to be one of the most powerful and important trends. The world's resource base confronts unprecedented demand as a new urban world unfolds. Against this backdrop, the secular bull market in energy and basic materials is just beginning. - Joseph Quinlan

We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep school manners, the aristocratic calm, the Skull and Bones mystery, the dappled lawns stretching before New England summer homes. How else can you explain the Bush vs. Kerry match-up that confronts us this year? - David Brooks

Tony's book confronts head-on the idea that the reason [the men] joined up is because of these movies... It gave me the opportunity to shoot this moment where you're shooting a bunch of guys about to go to war who are watching a movie about a bunch of guys at war, knowing that our film will be seen by a bunch of guys who are possibly going to go to war. It's all a weird discussion of how movies affect us. - Sam Mendes

Today's CIO confronts a formidable array of management and technical issues. The good news is that as they face challenges and opportunities, they benefit from the federal marketplace reforms put in place by the Clinger-Cohen Act. - Paul Wohlleben

To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation... this is the difficult task which confronts our age. - Albert Schweitzer

This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation. - Bill Frist

There?s been no movement toward democracy. The economic troubles Syria confronts will force reforms, but it?s unlikely that economic reforms will bring more democracy. - Joshua Landis