Top 100 Human Face Quotes
#1. I had come to appreciate the long open stretches of two-lane highway across the sagey sea and mountain-studded plateau of the Great Basin, but the towns and cities were another thing. I liked the natural face of Nevada, but was not as impressed by the human face.
Neil Peart
#2. The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.
Eliza Farnham
#3. Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every detail is expressive.
Henri Matisse
#4. The human face is the subtle yet visual autobiography of each person,
John O'Donohue
#5. The idea of a socialism with a human face was something that I absolutely could support, because it was my idea from the very first.
Stefan Heym
#6. The fundamental task of the evangelization of culture is the challenge to make God visible in the human face of Jesus.
Pope Benedict XVI
#7. Her voice changed slightly as she remembered, "But most he loved a happy human face.
Louise Penny
#8. I wanted to put a human face on anxiety disorders. I thought people who suffer from anxiety might recognize themselves and gain some comfort from my story and for those who don't suffer from anxiety disorders gain some understanding.
Scott Stossel
#9. Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to be replaced by the gorgeous imagery of things that have never been and never will be? The most special effect in movies is always the human face when its mind is being changed.
Edward Jay Epstein
#11. I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.
Imre Kertesz
#13. Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo
#14. I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me
Martin Buber
#15. The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never wholly succeeds in overtaking the reality.
John Edgar Park
#16. The moon sets. The next day you wake up in sheets that smell of fabric conditioner. There is CNN. There is coffee. There is weather. There is your human face in the mirror. The world, you discover, is a place of appalling continuity.
Glen Duncan
#18. We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
Kofi Annan
#19. Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type of human face, and, without our being able fully to tell why, affect our spirits as we look at them with as many moods and meanings.
William Hurrell Mallock
#20. She has a human face and as far as the groin she is a girl with lovely breasts, but below she is a monstrous sea creature, her womb 430 full of wolves,
Virgil
#21. What is it about the human face that it should be the most memorable thing in existence and yet its atoms are the quickest to disperse?
Marius Kociejowski
#22. If you want a vision of the future, imagine someone watching a boot stamping on a human face - forever...and 'liking' it.
Dean Cavanagh
#23. The smile is a very important feature of the human face.
Dalai Lama XIV
#24. The human face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no room for crying.
Rohinton Mistry
#25. When power corrupts, it keeps a log of its progress, written into that most sensitive memory device, the human face. Who could withstand the light? What viewer could believe in the war, the system, the countless lies about American freedom, looking into these mugs shots of the bought and sold?
Thomas Pynchon
#27. There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book. Do not abandon me.
Diane Setterfield
#28. I just don't think CGI is up to manipulating the human face yet. I feel like you can get away with it with aliens or monsters or something that's intentionally foreign, but I have yet to see anything digital to do with the human face that doesn't just look ridiculous.
Rian Johnson
#29. The first voice they hear is mine, the first touch they feel is mine, the first human face they see is mine. They just think I'm a strange tiger who walks on two legs.
Roy Horn
#30. For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.
Ingmar Bergman
#31. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever.
George Orwell
#32. Royalty puts a human face on the operations of government.
Robert Runcie
#33. It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no greater experience in a studio than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry.
Carl Theodor Dreyer
#35. Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Pablo Picasso
#36. Every human face is more enigmatic than the timeworn expression on the famous Sphinx out there in the sands of Egypt.
Dean Koontz
#39. I support freedom and I support a free market economy, but it should be a socially oriented market economy. I support globalization, but it should be globalization with a human face.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#40. To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.
Vaclav Klaus
#41. If we had had time and the occasion to develop a new socialism in the GDR, socialism with a human face, with democracy, this might have been an example also to West Germany. The development would have run the other way.
Stefan Heym
#42. Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any.
Marilynne Robinson
#43. But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#44. Intellectual disgrace
Stares from every human face,
And the seas of pity lie
Locked and frozen in each eye.
W. H. Auden
#45. Ethan thought he understood how a propaganda-stuffed young soldier must feel the first time in combat, stumbling by some sudden chance over his enemy's human face. He had gloried for a red moment in his power to break her. Now he stood foolishly with the pieces in his hands. Not at all heroic.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#46. The human face shines as it speaks of things
Near itself, thoughts full of dreams.
The human face shines like a dark sky
As it speaks of those things that oppress the living
Robert Bly
#47. He'd never seen such a look on any human face: such a wilderness of innocent malice. A
Clive Barker
#48. I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred, that death could be dressed in a uniform or a raincoat, queue up at a cinema, laugh in bars, or take his children out for a walk
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#49. Very early in life, I fell in love with the landscape of the human face, where all the emotional states of life are to be found.
Burton Silverman
#50. In the service of the people we followed such a policy that socialism would not lose its human face.
Alexander Dubcek
#51. We are custodians of deep and ancient thresholds. In the human face you see that potential and the miracle of undying possibility.
John O'Donohue
#52. The human face is as strange to me as a countenance, which, the more one looks at it, the more it closes itself off and escapes by the steps of unknown stairways.
Alberto Giacometti
#53. The best way to think of the ageing process in relation to a human face is to imagine a map of an area of innocent land which slowly becomes a city with many long and winding routes.
Matt Haig
#54. Laughter is like sunshine; it chases winter away from the human face. Cosette
Victor Hugo
#55. There are a number of fascinating stories included in 'The Human Face of Big Data' that represent some of the most innovative applications of data that are shaping our future.
Rick Smolan
#56. She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.
Dean Koontz
#57. A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.
William Blake
#58. The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
#59. A personal story of the horrors that Poles lived through during World War II. When God Looked the Other Way, above all else, explains why there is still a Poland ... One of the most remarkable World War II sagas I have ever read. It is history with a human face.
Arnold Beichman
#60. Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.
Blaise Pascal
#61. Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
Thomas Sowell
#62. Words are important. Words shaper our perceptions. When they define, they can also distort. There is a far better way to describe this man whose face is the most human face of all. Jesus is beautiful.
John Eldredge
#63. The typical Western is kind of a good-guy/bad-guy thing, and that's great, but initially when I heard about 'Into the West,' and what I love about it is it delves into both sides of our cultural past, and it puts more of a human face on the Native Americans.
Matthew Settle
#64. My aim here is to put a human face - a child's face - on the "collateral damage" of gun violence in America.
Gary Younge
#65. Baji-naji, nand' paidhi. Fortune has a human face and bastard Chance whores drunken down your streets.
C.J. Cherryh
#66. This man looked like curiosity would look if it had a human face.
Jenny Doe
#67. The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.'
Adam Michnik
#68. [Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.
James Nachtwey
#69. The human face does not always reflect the beauty that may repose in the soul.
Frank Delaney
#70. The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.
Rohinton Mistry
#71. While we too always seek other signs, other wonders, we do not realize that he is the real sign, God made flesh; he is the greatest miracle of the universe: all the love of God hidden in a human heart, in a human face.
Pope Benedict XVI
#72. It is not enough to say prayers: we must become, be prayer, prayer incarnate. All of life, each act, each act, every gesture, even the smile of the human face, must become a hymn of adoration, an offering, a prayer. One should offer not what one has but what one is.
Paul Evdokimov
#73. For Mercy has a human heart
Pity, a human face:
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace, the human dress.
William Blake
#74. If the stillness is Volcanic
In the human face
When upon a pain Titanic
Features keep their place-
If at length the smoldering anguish
Will not overcome-
And the palpitating Vinyard
In the dust, be overthrown?
Emily Dickinson
#75. Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.
Charles Bukowski
#76. He would pray ... for everyone who knew pain, which meant everyone who wore a human face.
Dean Koontz
#77. In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.
Steven Biko
#79. Where we find hate and darkness, may we bring love and hope, in order to give a more human face to society.
Pope Francis
#80. What do you think is the world's most recognisable container of information? It's the human face. We are constantly reading each other and responding.
Jan Chipchase
#81. True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#82. The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial and military look but the great gift still has to come from Africa - giving the world a more human face.
Steven Biko
#83. Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.
Slavoj Zizek
#84. In Jesus Christ, God took on a human face and became our friend and brother.
Pope Benedict XVI
#85. Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.
George Packer
#86. The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and optimistic. No species could survive for even a generation under such program. This is not a program of eternal, or even long-range dominance. It is clearly an extermination program.
William S. Burroughs
#87. Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.
Albert Camus
#88. Jesus is the human face on the kingdom of God. He makes it concretely accessible.
Dallas Willard
#89. Can you picture it, this splendid domesticity, dim lamps, the vampire father singing to the vampire daughter? Only the doll had a human face, only the doll.
Anne Rice
#90. I'VE never seen such a look of mortal agony on a human face before. She screamed quite a bit before she died, and the last shriek was forever frozen on her face.
Robert Bloch
#91. Theology should be a discourse that helps the sociopolitical approach to justice to maintain its human face and not to become impersonal.
Namsoon Kang
#92. The peasants of Asturias are convinced that in every litter of wolves there is one dog, which is killed by the mother because, otherwise, as he grew up, he would devour the other little ones. Give to this dog-son of a wolf a human face, and the result will be Javert.
Victor Hugo
#93. She realized she'd never been naked outside before. In the city, everywhere outdoors was public, but she hadn't seen another human face for days. The world seemed to belong to her. Even in the cool air, the sun felt wonderful on her skin.
Anonymous
#94. I aimed my flashlight at the ground - and leapt back, gasping. Incredibly, a human face seemed to be rising out of the earth.
Jeff VanderMeer
#95. Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God.
Warren Ellis
#96. This fascination with the human face has never left me ... Every face I see seems to hide and sometimes, fleetingly, to reveal the mystery of another human being ... Capturing this revelation became the goal and passion of my life.
Philippe Halsman
#97. The idea that stories slavishly obey deep structural patterns seems at first vaguely depressing. But it shouldn't be. Think of the human face. The fact that all faces are very much alike doesn't make the face boring or mean that particular faces can't startle us with their beauty or distinctiveness.
Jonathan Gottschall
#98. There's nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we're not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge.
Ayn Rand
#99. Who knows when a trenchant line becomes a human face?
Ben Shahn
#100. More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.
Ken Kesey
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