Top 425 Facing Quotes

We know enough to stand here in truth – facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims’ families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.
Aleksander Kwasniewski
What we need to do is to come together as a people and solve the problems facing our country. And unfortunately, Washington is just not doing enough of that these days.
Evan Bayh
Adrian Neville should expect absolutely everything out of me. Like I said, he is going to be facing Tyson Kidd at his absolute best. I’ve got nothing to lose, and there’s nothing more dangerous than a guy with nothing to lose.
Tyson Kidd
I love sitting at my desk and facing a quiet day with a pen in my hand, and putting myself into a story. It’s kind of weird, isn’t it? I mean, to absent myself from real life and make up stories is strange, but I started doing this when I was ten years old. It was all I wanted to do.
Philip Kerr
The man-made apocalypse we are facing was not written in the stars; it is a notion that grew like mould from the texts of a few frustrated, feather-wielding monks.
Anohni
Like many animals, wild ponies can sense a drop in barometric pressure. When a storm threatens, they know to seek shelter in hilly areas and huddle together with their rumps facing the oncoming wind.
Diane Ackerman
My agent advised me to quit the business. He told me th

My agent advised me to quit the business. He told me that if I continued acting I was facing a few bad years and probably wouldn’t work very much.
Nicholas Hammond
Facing a great server makes a match so much more difficult, even for the best players in the world.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
There’s a lot of strength in the U.S., but there’s a lot of froth also. The froth will blow off. We’re going to have to face up to some realities that we’re not fully facing up to right now.
Jeffrey Sachs
It’s kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more under the radar facing a 2:03 guy and facing a lot of dudes who are faster than I am, whereas, before Beijing, I had one of the top 10 times in the field, or something like that.
Ryan Hall
And you know, it’s not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They’re devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona – drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We’re facing all of it.
Jan Brewer
We shouldn’t have someone working in the Oval Office trying to discredit and smear a private individual who’s just speaking their mind about an important issue facing the country. That is not going to move our nation forward.
Evan Bayh
We are the greatest country in the world but we are facing serious issues.
Rick Larsen
I always said when Edge and I were tag team partners that we had great chemistry together. Then we ended up parting our own ways and facing each other, and we found that chemistry again as opponents. It doesn’t matter how you put Edge and myself in the ring, we’re going to make sure that we give you what you pay for.
Rey Mysterio
The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.
Freeman Dyson
I have never lived through any time in my career when there haven’t been grave challenges facing newspapers.
Donald Newhouse
A year of service has the power to bring young people together from different races, ethnicities, incomes, faiths, and political backgrounds to work on pressing problems facing U.S. society today.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Synthetic biology can help address key challenges facing the planet and its population. Research in synthetic biology may lead to new things such as programmed cells that self-assemble at the sites of disease to repair damage.
Craig Venter
There is a danger for Britain as we perceive ourselves, or as we are – less wealthy, facing economic austerity – that we essentially draw back. I think there is a recoil in parts of the country, and in parts of the government actually, from the multilateral system, and I think that’s dangerous and wrong.
David Miliband
Alabama seniors all across the Third Congressional District continue facing high drug costs.
Mike Rogers
We are facing extreme volatility.
Carlos Ghosn
We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism.
Gary Locke
We’re facing last orders in the last chance saloon when it comes to climate change.
Bez
All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today – from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments.
Geoff Mulgan
Canadians no longer have any financial room. Half of Canadians are $200 away from insolvency. They are facing a slowing economy with a diminishing number of jobs, and a rising cost of living to go along with it. That is the consequence of the Trudeau, Morneau tax-and-spend agenda, which is driving our economy down.
Pierre Poilievre
At times, I felt bad because while giving a shot, I would just forget facing the camera, or knowing the right angle.
Nidhhi Agerwal
The challenges facing our Armed Forces are increasingly complex.
Cindy Hyde-Smith
For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you’re not facing these things on your own.
David Cameron
In politics, I am facing a lot of structural sexism.
Brianna Wu
The liberal-run institution of journalism does not allow probing of real problems facing black people. That is prohibited. It might lead to actual solutions. It might provoke black people to wake up every day looking for solutions rather than excuses and meaningless verbal offenses.
Jason Whitlock
Going into hospitals and being able to meet kids that are in similar situations to those that the characters are facing in the ‘Red Band Society’ allows us to see the truth of these real humans’ lives.
Nolan Sotillo
The story of the American Jewish community is one of resilience and transformation. While often facing antisemitism and discrimination, the Jewish community fought to build better lives for themselves while making this nation a better place for all.
Jamaal Bowman
You can’t be allowed to take away the rights of others, and then use your own rights to avoid facing the consequences.
Chris Grayling
For all the challenges facing governments and their economies around the world equality for disabled people is not just a big part of the answer; it is the entire margin of victory.
Penny Mordaunt
Since my dimples only appear whenever I smile, facing everything in life with that smile is a wonderful feeling. Eyes are also the window to one’s self. Just a look can reflect your identity and experiences.
Liu Wen
If you’re facing rejection right now, it’s very important to realize, especially in a down market, that it’s not personal. Really. Truly. The indifference of the system is also crushing. But perhaps it’s better than thinking that someone was out to get you.
Timothy Morton
I’d feel OK facing anyone for the welterweight title.
B. J. Penn
It's hard to be happy when you are facing 120 to 140 de

It’s hard to be happy when you are facing 120 to 140 degree temperatures and nothing seems to be moving in a direction that you think or they think or you’ve been told it’s supposed to be moving in.
Janis Karpinski
The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Being a champion is not just being a frontrunner and being ahead, but it’s facing adversity.
Andre Ward
I have no problems with failures, I’m afraid of failing within myself. At times when I know I did something wrong, I don’t sleep that night. I’m scared of facing myself.
Anushka Shetty
It’s frightening to be facing an audience. There is always the fear of what they think of you, what they are saying about you.
Amitabh Bachchan
Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.
Nelson Mandela
When you’re facing an investor or the institutions or a distributor, it’s you yourself with your own ideas and your own project.
Martin Villeneuve
When I’m actually making a film and trying to find solutions, I like to watch making-of documentaries about huge films, like ‘Gladiator.’ That couldn’t be more apart from what I’m doing, but you see Ridley Scott facing huge problems and fixing them.
Philippe Falardeau
A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.
Virat Kohli
When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.
Placido Domingo
There are a lot of peripheral things that you have to deal with in this league, and I dealt with a lot of them when I came in. It’s everything from being on your own to facing the media.
Alex Smith
We’re grappling with the same issue facing all advanced economies – how to revive growth and distribute its fruits more fairly. An America that can tackle that problem head-on can perhaps help revive a stagnant global economy.
David Ignatius
As a young founder in high-stress situations, I often used alcohol to escape facing things. I’ve struggled with this for a long time, and while I think I’ve gotten better over time, I believe that this is the last thing preventing me from actualizing my 100 percent conscious self.
Justin Kan