“ Some allow themselves to be overcome by panic, and others charge because they dare not remain at their posts. Some may be found whose courage is strengthened by small perils that prepare them to face greater dangers. Some are daring when facing swords but dread facing bullets; others dread bullets little but fear facing swords a lot. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea. ”
- Patricia Cornwell- Copy
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“ Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me. ”
- Jim Elliot- Copy
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“ A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness. ”
- E. M. Forster- Copy
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“ And I think the real problem that we're facing already is that the government doesn't accept that it got a minority. ”
- Stephen Harper- Copy
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“ People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing. ”
- Kay Hutchison- Copy
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“ The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis. ”
- Carl Levin- Copy
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“ As I see it, Iraq is only one facet - albeit the bloodiest one - of a constellation of dangerous challenges facing the United States today. ”
- Robert Byrd- Copy
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“ Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
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“ Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood — we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we. ”
- Jean Rostand- Copy
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“ Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible. ”
- Dr. Karl Menninger- Copy
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“ And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? ”
- Thomas B. Macaulay- Copy
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“ Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening… Being "fearless" means being without fear. ”
- Penelope Leach- Copy
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“ Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst. ”
- Italo Calvino- Copy
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“ Once the "what" is decided, the "how" always follows. We must not make the "how" an excuse for not facing and accepting the "what.". ”
- Pearl S. Buck- Copy
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“ Partnering with executives and companies facing major challenges or significant opportunities to create extraordinary team focus, alignment and commitment. ”
- Jim Donovan- Copy
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“ The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ Time is a fixed income and, as with any income, the real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within our daily allotment. ”
- Margaret B. Johnstone- Copy
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“ When facing impossible conditions, sometimes it is in your best interests to retreat. ”
- Confucius- Copy
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“ You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice? ”
- Peter De Vries- Copy
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