I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you wont deny.
formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate
Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.
I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
The best thing, on 'Question Time,' is when the reality confronts the rhetoric.
To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
I think I'm attracted to subjects that I'm afraid of. It's a way to approach things I am afraid of, things that bring fear in my heart, and try to understand them, try to deal with them. It's like demons. I try to approach it and understand it... I'm just visiting fears.
You have to acknowledge a problem exists before you can actually go about finding a solution.
"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."
Hello,Pepper. It´s been a while," I said. "The last time we met up, you tried to kidnap me, isn´t that right?" Nora (p.303)
You can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been, it's all been a pack of lies.
Anonymous comments? You're not in the arena, man. If you can't say it to me in person in front of my kids, don't say it.
What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.
If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.
True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.
Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man!
GSP can't hide from me forever, you know.
Whenever I'm terrified of anything, I jump to it.
There's no dignity in hiding from an undignified story. You don't want to die the death of 1000 cuts. Just get the whole thing out… the entire thing, every detail, answer the questions and move on.
Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.
We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
If you're afraid of something, you definitely have to try to tackle it.
I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
Only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them.
Kosovo is now the biggest problem confronting Yugoslavia.