Faces Quotes - Page 5

• The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beauty, Eye, Half

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• A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.

  Nikki Giovanni

  White, Black, Mind

  1971 Conversation with James Baldwin, London, 4 Nov. Collected in A Dialogue (1973).

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• It doesn't matter what you all think, what you all say about me, because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face, my family that I love, that's all that really matters to me.

  Marshawn Lynch

  Love, Family, Home

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• She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and melting with the moonlit sky, conveyed to her excited fancy. As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.

  Kate Chopin

  Sky, Space, Water

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.71

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• There is nothing love cannot face; there is limit to its faith, its hope and endurance.

  Paul the Apostle

  Endurance, Limits

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• [On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Men, Expression, Serious Person

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• All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

  Charles Lamb

  Gone, Joyful, Familiar

  "The Old Familiar Faces" l. 1 (1798)

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• A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Squares, Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.96, Harvard University Press

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• A crisis allows us the opportunity to dig deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn't think we possessed. Through adversity, we come face to face with who we really are and what really counts.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Adversity, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Education today does not impart to the students the capacity or grit to face the challenges of daily life. The educational field has become the playing ground of ignorance.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Ignorance, Challenges

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• Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Integrity, Character, Commitment

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• The wind in ones face makes one wise.

  George Herbert

  Wise, Wind

  George Herbert (1853). “The poetical works of George Herbert [and The synagogue, by C. Harvey.]. With life, critical diss., and notes, by G. Gilfillan”, p.314

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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

  Laughing, Devil, Satan

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• Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble, and discovers the angel beneath.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Angel, Black, Trouble

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.1028, Discovery House

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• When you speak of heaven, let your face light up...When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Light, Heaven, Everyday

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• Beauty does not lie in the face. It lies in the harmony between a person and his or her industry. Beauty is expression. When I paint a mother I try to render her beautiful by the mere look she gives her child.

  Jean-Francois Millet

  Beauty, Beautiful, Mother

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• Even through such simple acts as telling the truth, being kind, and encouraging others, we bring a smile to God's face.

  Rick Warren

  Positive, Simple, Be Kind

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.88, Zondervan

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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.

  Walt Whitman

  Gratitude, Fall, Grateful

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• The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.

  H. L. Mencken

  Law, Pockets, Hocus Pocus

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• If you can stare hard at your problems, they almost always shrink or disappear, because you almost always find a better way of dealing with them than if you don't face them head on. The more difficult the problem, the more important it is that you stare at it and deal with it.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Growth, Important

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• A true friend will tell you the truth to your face - not behind your back.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Honesty, True Friend, Your Face

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• The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.

  Michelangelo

  Heart, Power, Sublime

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• In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.

  William Shakespeare

  Loyalty, Truth, Character

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.486

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• This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Kind, Unusual, Ends

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.

  Zoe Kazan

  Moving, Writing, Laughing

  "The Exploding Girl Blows Up". Interview with Meryl Cates, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2011.

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