Famous quotes containing the word confront:
“Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)
“The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Marvelous Truth, confront us
at every turn,
in every guise,”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)