Face Quotes
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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.
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We face a severe shortage of dentists, for example. It would work for veterinarians, too.
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Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face.
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Some of the Scotland players need to look themselves in the face.
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The Orphic Machine is the poem: a severed head with face turned away that sings.
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Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
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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.
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I have spent my life dreaming of your face. Now, I have found it.
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I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.
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THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.
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Are the odds you face (in life) defeating or motivating you?
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If I gaze at my beloved she may feel embarrassed and if I do not, she will feel neglected. I can see the stars reflecting in the calm water of her face but if I look away I lose my clarity.
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Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.
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The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.
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I lean with the hill. I know I'm doing it right if it feels like I'm going to fall on my face but I don't.
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I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon.
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My father had put these things on the table. I looked at him standing by the sink. He was washing his hands, splashing water on his face. My mamma left us. My brother, too. And now my feckless, reckless uncle had as well. My pa stayed, though. My pa always stayed. I looked at him. And saw the sweat stains on his shirt. And his big, scarred hands. And his dirty, weary face. I remembered how, lying in my bed a few nights before, I had looked forward to showing him my uncle's money. To telling him I was leaving. And I was so ashamed.
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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything could be better but isn't and so it is easy to be bitter 'unless you decide to look on the bright side will fall behind you.
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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O sleep! O sleep! Do not forget me. Sometimes come and sweep, Now I have nothing left, thy healing hand Over the lids that crave thy visits bland, Thou kind, thou comforting one. For I have seen his face, as I desired, And all my story is done. O, I am tired.
