Top 27 Countenances Quotes
#1. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away ... the whole tenor of His conduct by which He sometimes positively asserted and at others countenances His disciples in asserting that He was God.
John Quincy Adams
#2. Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.
Samuel Johnson
#4. Our battered armor and scarred countenances will render more glorious our victory above, when we are welcomed to the seats of those who have overcome the world. We
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#5. We young Filipinos are trying to make over a nation and must not halt in our march, but from time to time turn our gaze upon our elders. We shall wish to read in their countenances approval of our actions.
Jose Rizal
#6. A few minutes after the initial excited greetings they found themselves journeying in a maxi cab with a contended expression on their fatigued countenances as the moment held promise of forthcoming days of bliss and catch-up prattle that usually follows a family reunion.
Neetha Joseph
#7. People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.
Jeremy Collier
#8. We have a nasty habit of flushing down the memory hole "the people who lost." Or demonizing them. Going back in time and painting Snidely Whiplash mustaches on their luckless countenances.
Bill Kauffman
#9. What are we doing to keep the light shining in our own eyes and countenances; Much of that light comes from our discipline dedication and consecration.
James E. Faust
#10. The destructive power of pride is that it countenances nothing higher than itself. Because of an inherent fault in our nature, man's bias is on the side of error. In our willful desire to live independently of God, we have severed the lifeline that flows from the source of all life.
Billy Graham
#11. Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her.
Charles Lamb
#12. Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires.
Thomas Hardy
#13. Poverty and Discontent appear in every Face (except the Countenances of the Rich) and dwell upon every Tongue." He spoke of a few men, fed by "Lust of Power, Lust of Fame, Lust of Money," who got rich during the war.
Howard Zinn
#14. It was too sweet a moment to ruin by speaking mere words. Happiness was the bright blue moon, beaming amidst the bright stars of smiles that enveloped their countenances.
Sonali Dabade
#15. What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
Petrarch
#16. There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.
Francis Bacon
#17. If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.
Jonathan Swift
#18. There are young men of whom it can be said that their countenances chatter. One looks at them and one knows them.
Victor Hugo
#19. Often people with fine countenances and fit bodies were mistakenly assumed by others to have the brains to match.
J.R. Ward
#20. The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
W. H. Auden
#21. Use video to train assistants you'll be surprised how quickly they learn.
Andrew Mayne
#22. Havana is like Beirut, without having gone through the civil war to achieve the destruction.
Theodore Dalrymple
#24. In an ideal world I could do hellish things to her and she'd love it but in this world I came to save Perry. No one else seemed to give a shit.
Karina Halle
#25. I fully grant that mysterious invisible room-cleaning is in a way great, every true slob's fantasy, somebody materializing and deslobbing your room and then dematerializing - like having a mom without the guilt.
David Foster Wallace
#26. I think it's keeping a surprise element, so that the audience never gets ahead of you. I like to pull the rug out from audiences, I don't like for them to think they know what's happening next.
Jason Graae
#27. I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.
Lars Von Trier
