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Letter "F" » faced
«Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Change
| Keywords:
changed, faced
«The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Past
| Keywords:
attach, backwards, faced, flavor, march, most recent, objects, rear, rearing, rear view, Rear View Mirror, recent, totally
«My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.»
Author: Peggy Noonan
(Author, Journalist, Political analyst)
| About:
Choice,
Generations
| Keywords:
Cabernet, chose, existential, faced, grew, marijuana, My Generation, religious belief, religious beliefs
«I walked abroad, / And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge / Like a red-faced farmer. / I did not stop to speak, but nodded, / And round about were the wistful stars / With white faces like town children.»
«Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.»
«More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
common good, faced, individualism, more and more, reaction
«My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.»
«The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| Keywords:
dominions, East, east wind, faced, impassive, interloper, poniard, The East, treacherous, tyrant, westerly
«Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
faced, middle, middle age, nine, temptations
«There can be no real peace while one American is dying some place in the world for the rest of us. We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening. . . . If we lose freedom here [in America], there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
American history, astonishment, faced, swamp, swamps, The Swamp, world record
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