Face To Face Quotes

• How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.

  Judy Blume

  Fear, Determine, Handle

  Judy Blume (2014). “Tiger Eyes”, p.97, Pan Macmillan

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• When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strong Women, Courage, Fear

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• Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• For just as some people want a purely spiritual Christ, without flesh and without the cross, they also want their interpersonal relationships provided by sophisticated equipment, by screens and systems which can be turned on and off on command. Meanwhile, the Gospel tells us constantly to run the risk of a face-to-face encounter with others, with their physical presence which challenges us, with their pain and their pleas, with their joy which infects us in our close and continuous interaction.

  Pope Francis

  Faith, Running, Spiritual

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.29, BookBaby

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• God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Fake People, Being Yourself

  William Shakespeare, Nick De Somogyi (2001). “Hamlet: The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke : the First Folio of 1623 and a Parallel Modern Edition”, p.106, Nick Hern Books

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• Take the wold, but give me Jesus;
  In His cross my trust shall be,
  Till, with clearer, brighter vision
  Face to face my Lord I see.

  Fanny Crosby

  Jesus, Giving, Vision

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• Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Faces, Prose, Written

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.145, Vintage

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• I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with mosquitoes everywhere and when we got there the gorilla's just sat there doing nowt.

  Karl Pilkington

  Weather, Mosquitoes, Gorillas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some misguided quest for efficiency.

  Richard Branson

  Communication, Phones, Years

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• One of the main reasons I don't like leaving the house is because I might find myself face to face with a Canadian.

  Maria Semple

  House, Leaving, Might

  Maria Semple (2012). “Where'd You Go, Bernadette”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Twilight, Farewell

  'Crossing the Bar' (1889)

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• It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.

  Edna O'Brien

  Faces, Firsts, Madness

  Edna O'Brien (2012). “Country Girl”, p.26, Faber & Faber

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• God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him.

  David Platt

  People, Inability, Needs

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• Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Honesty, Book

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• I don't want to be just a voice on the phone.
  I have to get to know these guys face-to-face and develop a sincere relationship.
  That way, if we run into problems in a deal, it doesn't get adversarial.
  We trust each other and have the confidence we can work things out.

  Wayne Huizenga

  Inspirational, Confidence, Running

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• The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Yoga, Practice, Faces

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “The Synthesis of Yoga: Art of living”, p.55, editionNEXT.com

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• Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.

  Nelson DeMille

  Worry, Devil, Faces

  Nelson DeMille (1992). “Three Complete Novels”, Wings

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• Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

  Henri Bergson

  Art, Reality, Order

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• To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Able, Faces

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.454, Courier Corporation

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• [Kubrick] was unique in the sense that with each new film he redefined the medium and its possibilities. But he was more than just a technical innovator. Like all visionaries, he spoke the truth. And no matter how comfortable we think we are with the truth, it always comes as a profound shock when we're forced to meet it face-to-face.

  Martin Scorsese

  Unique, Thinking, Profound

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• We must see the face of the Lord .... There are things that God says to me that I know must take place. It doesn't matter what people say. I have been face to face with some of the most trying moments of men's lives when it meant so much to me if I kept the vision, and if I held fast to that which God had said. A man must be in an immovable condition. The voice of God must mean to him more than what he sees, feels, or what people say.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Mean, Men, Voice

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• To meet God or Medusa face to face, even if it means risking everything human in myself. I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the naked self merges with the nonhuman world and yet somehow survives still intact individual, separate. Paradox and bedrock.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Mean, Self

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.166, Holt Paperbacks

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• When she saw him face to face their eyes met and brushed like birds’ wings. After that everything was all right, everything was wonderful, she knew that he was beginning to fall in love with her.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Falling In Love, Eye, Birds Wings

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.360, e-artnow

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• But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells; wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping.

  Ann Voskamp

  Earth, Faces, Firsts

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• That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever. Like water, the world ripples across you and for a while you take on its colours. Then it recedes, and leaves you face to face with the void you carry inside yourself, confronting that central inadequacy of soul which you must learn to rub shoulders with and to combat, and which, paradoxically, may be our surest impetus.

  Nicolas Bouvier

  Water, Soul, Would Be

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