I'm not a hero. The Hongkongers who confronted tear gas in the streets are the heroes.
Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal.
We are confronted with an unprecedented increase in people embarking on dangerous journeys, to escape wars.
When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me.
The price of confessing is to be confronted with the truth of who you are - you have to bear your faults, your frailties.
When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.
When you are confronted with a level of devastating disease and death, you never lose that sense of unbelievable humility.
When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.
I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.