Faces Quotes - Page 13

• Your work is a very sacred matter. God delights in it, and through it, He wants to best His blessings on you. This praise of work should be inscribed on all tools, on the forehead and the faces that sweat from toiling.

  Martin Luther

  Blessing, Sweat, Sacred

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• Sometimes it's hard to face your own...life.

  Jon Stewart

  Sometimes, Hard

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• We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.

  Jefferson Davis

  Sacrifice, Honor, Liberty

  Jefferson Davis (1963). “The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Complete)”, p.381, Library of Alexandria

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• Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place.

  Walter E. Williams

  Creating, Firsts, Problem

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• It's a hard truth for Americans to face, that neither team in Washington is going to guard what we love the most. That is something we are going to have to face. Liberty is for the citizens to guard themselves.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Team, Liberty, Citizens

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• Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.

  John Fowles

  Art, Use, Statements

  John Fowles (1970). “The Aristos”, Signet Book

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• You may wish that some parts of (your face) were different, but the actual fact is shown in the mirror. Now, can you look at your conditioning in a similar way?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Mirrors, Wish, Different

  Jiddu Krishnamurti “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1953-1955 : What are you seeking?”

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• I can remember the time when, if we wanted a house or housing, we relied on private enterprise. In fact, Americans built more square feet of housing per person than any other country on the face of the earth. Despite that remarkable accomplishment, more and more people are coming to believe that the only way we can have adequate housing is to use government to take the earnings from some and give these earnings, in the form of housing, to others.

  Leonard Read

  Country, Believe, Feet

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• The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

  Horace

  Passion, Men, Tyrants

  'Odes' bk. 3, no. 3, l. 1

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• All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of your being and thus distorts you. Everything you can think of as you face your childhood, is good. Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Thinking, Blood, Childhood

  "Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter Nine (November 04, 1904), 1929.

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• I went horseback riding and got a big chunk of horse manure kicked into my face. It has a way of slapping you right back into reality.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Horse, Reality, Riding

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• The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.

  Martin Buber

  Fire, Pyramids, Tradition

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• The biggest truth to face now - what is probably making me unfunny now for the remainder of my life - is that I don't think people give a damn whether the planet goes or not. It seems to me as if everyone is living as members of Alcoholics Anonymous do, day by day. And a few more days will be enough. I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dream, Grandchildren, Thinking

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.70, Seven Stories Press

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• From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night,
  The hum of either army stilly sounds,
  That the fixed sentinels almost receive
  The secret whispers of each other's watch.
  Fire answers fire, and through their play flames
  Each battle sees the other's umbered face.
  Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs
  Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents
  The armorers accomplishing the knights,
  With busy hammers closing rivets up,
  Give dreadful note of preparation.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Army, Night

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, chorus, l. 1

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• An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.

  Agatha Christie

  Voice, Ugly, Ugly Face

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I'd prefer it if the coach said certain things to me face to face.

  Samir Nasri

  Certain, Said, Coaches

  "'I'd stab myself with a sausage!' - French football quotes of 2011" by Tom Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 21, 2011.

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• But the truth is that we could win every other fight that we face and if we lose the climate fight, the other victories will be pyrrhic. I don't think even people who are worried about climate change quite understand the scale and speed with which we're now shifting the planet.

  Bill McKibben

  Fighting, Winning, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think if your goal is for everything to be okay, that's a mistake. To achieve that goal, the only obstacle you'd have to face tomorrow is to eliminate all risk ... I've made the decision that I'm never trying to make everything okay. I'm trying for there to be more loose ends, not fewer loose ends.

  Seth Godin

  Mistake, Thinking, Goal

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• Too often, in novels that are speculative, God is a kind of kryptonite, and that's about all that it is, and it goes back to Dracula, where someone dumps a crucifix in Count Dracula's face, and he pulls away and runs back into his house. That's not religion. That's some kind of juju, like a talisman.

  Stephen King

  Running, Kryptonite, House

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• I shall never forget the faces of the boys and the girls in that little Welhausen Mexican School, and I remember even yet the pain of realizing and knowing then that college was closed to practically every one of those children because they were too poor. And I think it was then that I made up my mind that this nation could never rest while the door to knowledge remained closed to any American.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Girl, Children, Pain

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• I'm not good looking. I'm very strange - a very bony face on an enormous skull, and I don't like to be naked because I don't like how I look naked. And - no, no. I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything. So I could have a lot more trappings of wealth if every time I had 20 extra dollars I didn't pay off more of the mortgage.

  Dan Savage

  Skulls, People, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The west is very concerned and actually afraid because the media is not informing them. There are too many moderate Muslims who are trying to whitewash the fears and concerns of the West. It's time for us to face reality - nobody is against Muslims. When I'm speaking about this situation, it's about Islamic doctrine. Islamic doctrine promotes violence and hatred against non Muslims. 60% of the Koran is dedicated to cursing and spreading hatred and violence against non-Muslims who are called 'Kaffir'.

  Reza Aslan

  Islamic, Reality, Media

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?

  Alan Alda

  Thinking, Names, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with incredible determination in the face of all the commonsense arguments, and at the cost of 20 million lives at least, in Russia, to build the socialist Utopia.

  Martin Amis

  Determination, Russia, Ideas

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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