Face Quotes
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I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation; but as to the gentleman, let them be solicitous to possess only strength and valour: let their motto be:Hunt, shoot, and fight: the rest is not worth a flip.
Charlotte Bronte
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Our first surface experiment was complete, and we’d literally changed the face of the moon.
Alfred Worden
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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.
Marcel Proust
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See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.
J. P. Donleavy
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I think there's a knowingness in my face.
Rebecca De Mornay
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From childhood to adolescence, girls face mixed messages about displaying power and authority.
Rachel Simmons
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Over time, your quickness with a cocky rejoinder must have gotten you many punches in the face.
Alan Sepinwall
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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
Georges Bataille
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My face is not that expressive!
Cate Tiernan
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As a beauty I am not a star, There are others more handsome by far, But my face - I don't mind it For I am behind it. It's the people in front get the jar.
Anthony Euwer
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But sometimes even the sky is dangerous. I look up and see your face in the stars.
Carole Maso
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And I fell violently on my face.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!
Alfred Austin
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Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.
Homer
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The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength to recognize - and to live with the recognition - that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones. He creates himself by fashioning his own values; he has the pride to live by the values he wills.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.
George Bernard Shaw
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The Orphic Machine is the poem: a severed head with face turned away that sings.
Allen Grossman
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I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him.
Martin Luther
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Arguing face to face can be a powerful thing, and done deftly and persistently, it can reinforce and build respect itself, even across major differences.
Anthony Weston
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When you’re confronted by a really difficult thing in your life, you’re faced with a choice: you can runaway from it, or you can face it, confront it, and work through it. But to work through it, sometimes feels like holding your own head below water when you’re already drowning. Your natural instinct when drowning is to get back up to the surface and give yourself some relief from that terrible situation…you just want to breathe again.
Buck 65
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When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
Arthur Ashe
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He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping soundly, and upon her eyelashes there lingered tears.
Thomas Hardy
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Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow...
Hannah Whitall Smith