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I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.

- Cat Stevens

If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.

- Tom Wilkinson

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

- Claude Chabrol

To me, adventure is a concept that applies only to those men and women of earlier historical times, like the medieval knights who traveled into the unknown. The concept has degenerated constantly since then... I absolutely loathe adventurers, and I particularly hate this old pseudo-adventurism where the mountain climb becomes about confronting the extremes of humanity.

- Werner Herzog

The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.

- Pope John Paul II

It is important to rescue the people who are working hard to come up with new ideas if we are to have any chance of confronting the big issues in our world.

- Robert Quinn

We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.

- Sam Brownback

We`ve heard stories that police confronting people at Bob Woodruff Park...and talking to people about voluntary compliance.

- Jim Fox
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I have deep respect for people`s individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

- Andrew Denton

By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.

- M.C. Escher

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.

- Alan Reiter

We`ve got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions.

- Alex Laughlin

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

- Alfonzo Surrett

Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

- Alfred Edward Housman

Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.

- Alyn McCauley

We are confronting a situation in which the Administration, in my view, is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy.

- Amy Canaday

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare`s way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.

- Andreas Marx

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.

- Andrew Corty

Success in confronting terrorism on the regional or international levels is contingent upon addressing its root causes and protecting the right of peoples under foreign occupation to resistance,

- Angela Walter

With the winning line in sight the last thing they (England) expected was that Australia -- aggressive, positive, confronting Australia -- might be prepared to shorten the game,

- Ann Bonham