Facing Quotes - page 2

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental/population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!" (Jared Diamond)
True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid... View quote
L. Frank Baum
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. View quote
Jim Elliot
The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat. View quote
Bell hooks
If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed. View quote
Joss Whedon
[T]he toughest thing is facing yourself. Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough. View quote
Joe Strummer
The struggles I'm facing, the chances I'm taking. Sometimes they knock me down, but, no, I'm not breaking. I may not know it, but these are the moments I am going to remember most, just got to keep going. View quote
Miley Cyrus
The problem facing our people here in America is bigger than all other personal or organizational differences. Therefore as leaders, we must stop worrying about the threat we seem to think we pose to each other's personal prestige; and concentrate our united efforts towards solving the unending hurt that is being done daily to our people here in America. View quote
Malcolm X
We are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars... We are dealing with those who are extremists, who only know the language of killing and criminality. View quote
Bashar al-Assad
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. View quote
Carl Levin
Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history. (Mitt Romney)
And so we stood there in the kitchen, my mother and I, facing off over everything that had built up since June, when I was willing to hand myself over free and clear. Now I needed her to return it all to me, with the faith that I could make my own way. View quote
Sarah Dessen
These two entities - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing. View quote
Barney Frank
If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy. View quote
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them. View quote
Irving Kristol
If a general and his men fear death and are apprehensive over possible defeat, then they will unavoidably suffer defeat and death. But if they make up their minds, from the general down to the last footsoldier, not to think of living but only of standing in one place and facing death together, then, though they may have no other thought than meeting death, they will instead hold on to life and gain victory. View quote
Yoshida Shoin
The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark, divisive clouds of Marxist socialism and bring together men and women from all walks of life who share a belief in freedom. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm President of the United States of America. View quote
Barack Obama
I think it is the most important subject facing this country, but I cannot get any of my ministers to take any notice. View quote
Winston Churchill
We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by the slightest derangement of my room. I would burst into a fit of weeping if the kettle was not facing due east. (Quentin Crisp)
The major problems facing the development of products that are safer, less prone to error, and easier to use and understand are not technological: they are social and organizational. View quote
Donald Norman
But what's true about comedians is that we've all got a huge hole in our personality. In a room of 3,000 people, we're the one person facing in the opposite direction - yet we have this overwhelming desire to be liked. View quote
Jimmy Carr
In fact, in the far North one sees the northern lights facing south! View quote
Vincent Massey
The economic distress of America's inner cities may be the most pressing issue facing the nation. The lack of businesses and jobs in disadvantaged urban areas fuels not only a crushing cycle of poverty but also crippling social problems such as drug abuse and crime... A sustainable economic base can be created in the inner city, but only as it has been created elsewhere: through private, for-profit initiatives and investment based on economic self-interest and genuine competitive advantage. View quote
Michael E. Porter