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"To hell with the handkerchief," said Walter Mitty scornfully. He took one last drag on his cigarette and snapped it away. Then, with that faint, fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last.
james thurber— The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1942)
One is faced with a dilemma: If one places total trust in all other users, one is vulnerable to the antisocial behavior of any malicious user consider the case of viruses. But if one tries to be totally reclusive and isolated, one is not only bored, but one's information universe will cease to grow and be enhanced by interaction with others. The result is that most of us operate in a complicated trade-off zone with various arrangements of trust and security mechanisms.
fernando j. "corby" corbató— p. 79 (On Building Systems That Will Fail (1991))
Pray to God with tears in your eyes whenever you want illumination or find yourself faced with any doubt or difficulty. The Lord will remove all your impurities, assuage your mental anguish, and give you enlightenment.
— Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda. Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations. p. 344.
My whole life I have suffered from poverty and have faced many disappointments and pain, like a man is used to. That is why I want to make other people happy and want them to feel at home.
jim jones— (1978). Translated back from Dutch to English, indirectly sourced, Messiahs: The vision and prophecies for the Second coming by John Hogue
If we are to be the last of the White men who conquered the world; if we are finally to be overwhelmed by a pack of rats, let us at least face the death of our race as our ancestors faced their death---like MEN. Let us not crawl down amongst the rats begging for mercy or trying to out-sneak them and pretend to be rats ourselves!
George Lincoln Rockwell— In Hoc Signo Vinces
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
lucille ball
Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going.Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.
Clint as Dirty Harry Eastwood— 1928 20 Hours: 40 MinutesOur Flight in the Friendship, ch.5. US actor and director. He achieved fame initially for his roles in westerns, but more recently has directed several well- respected films, including Unforgiven (1992) and Mystic River (2003).
Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, tobe faced with philosophyand investigated by science.
— 1871-2 Middlemarch, bk.1, ch.11.
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
— Quoted in Reader's Digest, Mar1966.
Then, with that faint fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful,Walter Mitty, the undefeated, inscrutable to the last.
— 1939 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', in the NewYorker,18 Mar.
Life cannot have had a random beginning ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all in a random trial is only one part in 1040,000, an outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup.
fred hoyle— Fred Hoyle and N. Chandra Wickramasinghe, Evolution from Space (London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1981)
The right response when, in the army, you are given an unlawful order, is to refuse that order. The right response of a chief executive in this state and in this nation, when faced with an order by a court that he conscientiously believes violates the constitution he is sworn to respect, is to refuse their order!
alan keyes— Rally in defense of marriage, Boston, Massachusetts, May 14, 2004.[34]
There is a deep connection between Bernoulli's dictum and John Kelly's 1956 publication. It turns out that Kelly's prescription can be restated as this simple rule: When faced with a choice of wagers or investments, choose the one with the highest geometric means of outcomes.
william poundstone— Part Four, St. Petersburg Wager, Natures Admonition To Avoid The Dice, p. 191
During the years I was on the board of directors of the National Organization for Women [chapter] in New York City, the most resistant audiences I ever faced in the process of doing corporate workshops on equality in the workplace were not male executives they were the wives of male executives. As long as her income came from her husband, she was not feeling generous when affirmative action let another woman have a head start vying for her husband’s (her) income.
warren farrell— p. 46. (Part 1: The Myth of Male Power)
Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.
david gemmell— Ch. 18 (Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde)
Jack stood up as he said this, the bloodied knife in his hand. The two boys faced each other. There was the brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of longing and baffled common-sense.
william golding— Ch. 4: Painted Faces and Long Hair
Nearly anyone in this line of work would take a bullet for the last pregnant dodo. But should we not admire the person who, when faced with an overwhelmingly sad reality beyond and personal blame or control, strives valiantly to rescue whatever can be salvaged, rather than retreating to the nearest corner to weep or assign fault?
stephen jay gould— "The Dodo in the Caucus Race", p. 234
We are faced this year with the choice between the "work ethic" that built this Nation's character and the new "welfare ethic" that could cause that American character to weaken.
richard nixon— Labor Day Message to the nation (3 September 1972)
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
bertrand russell— Ch. 12: Free Thought and Official Propaganda.
When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.
gerry spence— Ch. 6 : The Power of Prejudice : Examining the Garment, Bleaching the Stain, p. 92
There is little doubt left in the minds of professional biologists that Earth is currently faced with a mounting loss of species that threatens to rival the five great mass extinctions of the geological past.
— Niles Eldredge, "The Sixth Extinction", 2001
Vamana Purana is that in which the four faced Brahma taught the three objects of existence , as subservient to the account of the greatness of Trivikrama, which treats also of the Shiva Kalpa , and which consists of ten thousand stanzas. It contains an account of the dwarf incarnation of Vishnu ; but it is related by Pulastya to Narada , and extends to but about seven thousand stanzas. Its contents can scarcely establish its claim to the character of a Purana.
— H.H.Wilson, in "Oriental Translation Fund, Volume 52 (Google eBook), Volume 52 (1840)}, P. xivii
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
james baldwin— As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 114
We were not faced (in the cold war) in a conflict with people who are prepared to die for their cause. We weren't in conflict with people whose idea is to kill as many as they could.
— John le Carré Interview with Ramona Koval. The Book Show, Australian Broadcasting Commission Radio National. (19 November 2008)
faced with the nonsense question 'What is the meaning of a word?' and perhaps dimly recognizing it to be nonsense, we are nevertheless not inclined to give it up.
j. l. austin— p. 58 (Philosophical Papers, (1979))
faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
john kenneth galbraith— Economics, Peace and Laughter (1971), p. 50
faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake.
norman vincent peale— Opposing the candidacy of ?John F. Kennedy? for US President, as quoted in "The Religious Issue: Hot and Getting Hotter" in Newsweek (19 September 1960)
