#confront

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#any #back #beginning #compliment #confronts

Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#confront #ensure #expense #hostile #insurgency

Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated. ↗

— Kim Y. Sam

#confrontation #definitely #korea #major #military

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point. ↗

— Matthew Shipp

#certain point #confrontational #element #iconoclastic #jazz

It was this weird confrontation of these two delicious flavors that got me consciously or subconsciously combining Lincoln and vampires as an observational in-joke with myself. ↗

— Seth Graham-Smith

#confrontation #consciously #delicious #flavors #got

I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#care #confront #enough #gay #i

In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away. ↗

— Lord Hailsham

#away #center #confrontation #melted #politics

Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from ↗

— Rolf Potts

#running-away #work #art

The Rochester group [of VOTF], however, was met with some concern as they found it hard to believe my account as it unfolded before them. I feel that some people have a hard time with the truths around us, not only the sexual abuse by priests, but all bad things. I call it chosen ignorance. This modified form of ignorance is found in people who, if confronted with certain truths realize that they have to accept them and thereby acknowledge evil, and that scares them. Opening up and letting the truth in might knock them off their perceived center. It is too hard, period." (VOTF - Voice of the Faithful - a Catholic group that wants to change the Church, keep the faith.) ↗

— Charles L. Bailey Jr.

#catholic #church #confronted #disbelief #evil

Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#faith