#confronted

You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#better things #confronted #educate #grind #halt

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#complete #confront #confronted #fantasy #make

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer. ↗

— Jodi Rell

#cancer #confronted #had #i #mortality

Considering what Americans have been confronted with in the last ten years, domestically and internationally, it's clear that we need emotional outlets; we have to have some peace from our problems. ↗

— Pete Rozelle

#clear #confronted #considering #domestically #emotional

There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all. ↗

— Alice Miller

#benefited #confronted #past #people #therapy

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

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#beings #between #communicator #compound #computer

When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#closed #come #concept #confronted #europe

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#beyond #comes #confronted #danger #deceit

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#bombarded #confronted #constantly #days #escalating