Lineaments Quotes

#1. Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.

Sophie Swetchine

#2. I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?

Rick Perlstein

#3. A sweet attractive kinde of grace, A full assurance given by lookes, Continuall comfort in a face The lineaments of Gospell bookes.

Mathew Roydon

#4. If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves no admiration. The resemblance which he ought to obtain is that of the soul.

Auguste Rodin

#5. Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.

Thomas Carlyle

#6. On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the present the lineaments of times to come.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#7. The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

William Blake

#8. What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.

William S. Burroughs

#9. He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.

William Blake

#10. The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.

Thomas Jefferson

#11. Things thought too long can be no longer thought, For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, And ancient lineaments are blotted out.

William Butler Yeats

#12. It is the lineaments of the years which form the countenance of the century.

Victor Hugo

#13. If so far we have been unable to see clearly or to reflect the eternal lineaments of truth, is it not because we too are still moving towards some end-because we are still alive?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#14. In a wife I would desire / What in whores is always found / The lineaments of gratified desire.

William Blake

#15. Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#16. I'm unable to ignore the gift that God gave me, so I'm going to sing.

Lisa Nicole Carson

#17. At one point, 'feminist' became a pejorative term. How did that happen? If you're a feminist, you're basically saying you're a humanist.

Julianne Moore

#18. I didn't want to think there was something out there that I just hadn't been able to see, hadn't been able to stop.

C.E. Dimond

#19. You know it's very important, the role of a mother ... I don't know, but it's feminism to me to love your kids.

Carine Roitfeld

#20. Dear God, I am only what you made me and I appreciate everything that you gave me, but like, I don't want to do it any more, sort of lost sight of what I'm doing it for.

Nicki Minaj

#21. People will say, 'There are a million ways to shoot a scene,' but I don't think so. I think there are two, maybe. And the other one is wrong.

David Fincher

#22. My dream is to work with people like Meryl Streep, Michael Fassbender, Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett. To me, those are true storytellers - genuine people who have stories to tell and make incredible films.

AJ Michalka

#23. The brevity of his life makes the sky a dark lid against which he will forever crack his head, to fall back onto earth, where everything alive eats and can be eaten.

Milan Kundera