#confront

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue. ↗

— Woody Allen

#comedy #confronts #dessert #drama #just

Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#am #any #because #confront #directly

Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#does #fear #mean #readiness #worry

It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#because #cannot #coke #confront #encompasses

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#because #christian #clear #confront #difficult

I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society. ↗

— Alan Bates

#always #believed #confront #different #different personalities

The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium. ↗

— Rand Beers

#crime #dangerous #expansion #millennium #most

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#been #between #confronted #could #i

This marched was planned to be non violent and non confrontational, and gladly it stayed that way. What really impressed me was the self discipline of the Black Block. ↗

— John Blair

#block #confrontational #discipline #gladly #impressed

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#great #height #made #music #political