Quotes About Faces

#1. Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?

Adam Johnson

#2. Many smiling faces hide a bleeding heart

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#3. The lights, the azaleas, the dresses, the pink faces, the velvet chairs, all became one beautiful flying wheel.

Katherine Mansfield

#4. He was trying to save both his faces.

John Gunther

#5. Joy melts away the frown from our faces, it takes away anxiety, worries and fears.

Euginia Herlihy

#6. It's a fool who is afraid of nothing," I say. "And a brave man is one who knows fear and rides out and faces it.

Philippa Gregory

#7. I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and false hearts, its howling righteousness on the surface and utter hollowness beneath and, above all, its sanctified shopkeeping!

Swami Vivekananda

#8. The fear was visible on their faces and in their trembling voices. Neither of them had wanted to think about what life would be like without the man who made them feel safe.

Vicky Pattison

#9. The Emperor and his ministers might dance Western dances and even, in violation of traditional Japanese propriety, smile Western smiles. But their underlying and deadly earnest aim was always to wipe the smiles off European faces.

Niall Ferguson

#10. I put my hands behind my head and lay on my back, trying to hold on to the memories of my family. Their faces seemed to be far off somewhere in my mind, and to get to them I had to bring up painful memories.

Ishmael Beah

#11. Philosophy has been a masked ball in which a religious image of humankind is renewed in the guise humanist ideas of progress and enlightenment. Even philosophy's greatest unmaskers have ended up as figures in the masquerade. Removing the masks from our animal faces is a task that has hardly begun.

John N. Gray

#12. Why do you look so eagerly and so curiously into people's faces, / Will you find your lost dead among them?

Ezra Pound

#13. No man can know his deliverer, nor yet the thief of his soul. Their faces are covered; they swirl in the mob at the masquerade ball. Wine flows, and dance follows dance, and we are never certain of their names until that Midnight when all masks are removed

Robert V.S. Redick

#14. His perpetual grin was wider than any I'd ever seen, and that included several guys I'd known at Dreadgrave's with no skin on their faces.

Yahtzee Croshaw

#15. No surgical tweaks. No Botox either. I think it is terrible, these girls in their late 20s injecting their faces and lips. One told me, If I kill my muscles now, I'll never get wrinkles. Can you imagine?

Salma Hayek

#16. Painted faces laughed. It was like a mad carnival where everyone was oblivious, lost in the bliss of chaos, a throng unaware of a bomb planted beneath the
floorboards.

Kelly Creagh

#17. Those that in good earnest set their faces heaven-ward, and will live godly in Christ Jesus, must expect to be set upon by Satan's temptations and terrors.

Matthew Henry

#18. Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

Elyn R. Saks

#19. The economic crisis, so conveniently operated and driven by the markets, by financial groups, by the needs of a globalized economy, faces the task of restoring social control, which the crisis of modernity lost sight of.

Zygmunt Bauman

#20. Every time I find a picture of him with other women, or read in magazines that he's involved with 'groupies,' I don't go and show up where he is making a huge scene and getting our faces put all over the TV and papers.

Kim Mathers

#21. Edward helped, making faces every so often at the raw ingredients-human food was mildly repulsive to him.

Stephenie Meyer

#22. I also know that every person faces adversity in life. Abraham Lincoln held this seat in Congress in one term. But few faced as many defeats in his personal, business and public life as he did,

Aaron Schock

#23. Susan Bordo's Unbearable Weight is a masterpiece of complex an nuanced thinking not only about a significant problem that faces women but about our culture. A very valuable book.

Susan Griffin

#24. You can't micromanage. People who try to do that often fall on their faces. Incentivize those who work with you so you get the best work you can. Every career is a team effort, even if you're the one in front.

Michael Franzese

#25. Helping people and putting smiles on their faces is a great, great thing. God only knows why more people don't do it more often.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#26. My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death ...

Osamu Tezuka

#27. The fields and the flowers and the beautiful faces are not ours, as the stars and the hills and the sunlight are not ours, but they give us fresh and happy thoughts.

John Lancaster Spalding

#28. Three stones for the faces of the mother, four bones ... for whatever reason the charlatans came up with that I can't be bothered to remember.

Sarah J. Maas

#29. Some people...no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty.They merely move it, from their faces into their hearts.

Martin Buxbaum

#30. There's a way of doing comedy that feels true to the person doing it, that doesn't feel like clown-work or silly faces and antics, but that feels real - like you're playing a real person who has real thoughts and feelings, and it's very grounded. I started to watch all comedy through that prism.

Andy Daly

#31. Once I got home, though, and saw several packages on my front porch, all the crap from the day disappeared. A few had smiley faces on them. Squealing, I grabbed the boxes. Books were inside
new release books I'd preordered weeks ago.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#32. The soldier can only be human. He can never be a dragon." Ember started to reply, but i leaned down so that our faces were maybe an inch apart. She froze, and i brushed a palm across her cheek.
"I can be both

Julie Kagawa

#33. The most vexing problem Israel faces is its relations with its neighbors. From the inception of the state until today, Israelis have felt besieged, surrounded by enemies who want to make them disappear.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

#34. How rarely did other
people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost
trembling thought?

Ray Bradbury

#35. Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.

Vicente Fox

#36. Suppose we took a thousand negatives ...
combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city - that would be my favorite picture.

Berenice Abbott

#37. So we bloom where we are planted, turning our faces to the sun. - From the 2013 Call the Midwife Christmas Special

Heidi Thomas

#38. For me, a great story is one in which the protagonist faces unimaginable odds; where the stakes are high that failure constitutes a disaster.

Michael Boatman

#39. At this point, I wouldn't be able to digest meat, and I don't like eating things with faces.

Joely Fisher

#40. I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.

James Spader

#41. The worst thing for an actor is to be stuck in one kind of thing. But if you're not in people's faces all the time, you can lose traction. And that affects the choice of things you get offered.

Joanne Whalley

#42. Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.

Nicolas Chamfort

#43. Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Lester Bangs

#44. I'm constantly embarrassed. I fidget and twist my hair and pull weird faces and stutter. Some days I feel quite confident, then others there's a microscopic flaw about myself physically, which will make me embarrassed to walk the streets.

Graham Coxon

#45. What's going on with the Oakland Raiders? You know, I don't want to say the Raiders are bad, but you know, now, a lot of fans are painting their faces just so they won't be recognized.

Jay Leno

#46. It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things.

Andy Partridge

#47. In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.

Wang Shi

#48. Females of domestic reputation lounged upon the balconies they passed with faces gotten up in indigo and almagre gaudy as the rumps of apes and they peered from behind their fans with a kind of lurid coyness like transvestites in a madhouse.

Cormac McCarthy

#49. Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.

Aberjhani

#50. When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old enough now to identify them very strongly as being young - whereas before, of course they were young, because you were young. Now it's not like that.

Martin Amis

#51. All the doors were open, all the faces were frightened; one felt that Death was there.

Tom Reiss

#52. Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content to entrust their faces to Andy Warhol's mingily cosmetic Polaroidising, but one would bet they would rather go to Sargent.

Robert Hughes

#53. This is one of the most important moments in your life. Nothing will ever be the same. We might get rich. We might get killed. We might just have an adventure or lean something. But we have been changed. We are standing close the Heraclitean fire, feeling its heat on our faces.

Neal Stephenson

#54. Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.

G.K. Chesterton

#55. I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.

John Oliver

#56. Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.

Sam Kean

#57. In appearance the locusts were like horses equipped for battle. On their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces, 8 their hair like women's hair, and their teeth like lions' teeth;

Anonymous

#58. When in doubt, make funny faces.

Amy Poehler

#59. They're weak and strong and they make mistakes, like anyone, like he has. And love and care have all kinds of different faces, and within them, there's room for understanding, and for forgiveness, and for more. More and more and more. Sometimes

Patrick Ness

#60. When I look out into your faces, you know what I see? I see a little bit of Elvis in each and every one of you out there.

Mojo Nixon

#61. After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

Cynthia Ozick

#62. All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.

Helena Rubinstein

#63. So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again. Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.

Billy Joel

#64. If we've learned anything, it's that the combination of yellow smiley faces and blue polyester vests are irresistible to the inbred.

Zach Braff

#65. A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes.

Bob Dylan

#66. It was odd and intimate, their hands connected, their heads in different rooms. They could talk. They could hold hands. But they couldn't see each other's faces.

Jess Walter

#67. Mothers took their mothering so seriously now. Their frantic little faces ... Ponytails swinging. Eyes fixed on the mobile phones held in the palms of their hands like compasses.

Liane Moriarty

#68. She and I, we were girls who never said anything. Never wanted to assume anything. It was a coping mechanism, saving our faces for when guys like Quin came along and acted all nice towards us.

Mina V. Esguerra

#69. The couples were dancing with hands on each other's hips, yelling in each other's faces, streaming with sweat. An orchestra in Bavarian costume whooped and drank and perspired beer. The place stank like beer

Christopher Isherwood

#70. Maybe there are only so many faces in the world. You get old enough, you start seeing 'em used again. Craw

Joe Abercrombie

#71. Love lasts because it changes and not because it stays the same and never faces any challenges.

Paulo Coelho

#72. Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

George Eliot

#73. Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of ... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.

Ellen Glasgow

#74. The light flickers on all of us and makes us look softer and more beautiful than we really are. But sometimes it makes us darker and scarier too, when the faces go into shadow and you can't see the eyes, only the eye sockets. Deep pools of blackness welling out of our heads. My

Margaret Atwood

#75. A fact regarding Max Vandenburg
He would search the faces on Munich street for a book-thieving girl.

Markus Zusak

#76. The wise maketh every thing the means of advantage; and with the same countenance beholdeth he all the faces of fortune: he governeth the good, he conquereth the evil; he is unmov'd in all. Presume not in prosperity, neither despair thou in adversity.

Robert Dodsley

#77. The kids today, they think they can dance with their faces.

Ginger Rogers

#78. With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

Alain Robert

#79. If everyone is a hero, then disasters and atrocities lose their meaning. It's only when certain people are heroes and others are not that these tragedies and disasters that mankind faces take on meaning.

Gao Xingjian

#80. The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#81. We just wanted to put a smile on people's faces. That's all we ever wanted to do.

Joe Elliott

#82. East DR Congo Faces Catastrophic Humanitarian Crisis 4,450

Alain De Botton

#83. With faces entirely invisible through suits, it was hard to be sure, but my impression was that he was watching me and copying my every move. I felt this proved he was intelligent.

Janet Edwards

#84. Particularly nauseous were the blank expressionless faces of people in trains and omnibuses; they seemed no more my fellow-creatures than dead bodies would be, so that I did not dare to travel unless I was assured of being alone.

H.G.Wells

#85. The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.

Caitlin Moran

#86. Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.

A.E. Coppard

#87. So the first season about halfway through he just sort of put us together and then broke us up all within one episode. One of the ideas is to have us do that once a year - to have everything blow up in our faces and not work out.

Sarah Chalke

#88. I wish I looked more like my mother, but I think I look like my father. I wish I had one of those naturally beautiful faces. Or a more quirky face. I'm right down the middle: not interesting enough, not pretty enough.

Chloe Sevigny

#89. What is the modern mind?" asked Grant.
"Oh, it's enlightened, you know, and progressive
and faces the facts of life seriously." At this moment another roar of laughter came from within.

G.K. Chesterton

#90. I'm not sure," I answer. "I'll look at our game schedule and his game schedule and see if it works out. But I know Wes would be happy to come if his schedule allows it." All of their faces light up.

Sarina Bowen

#91. Genetics determine whether we get fuck-all or fuck; whether the party doors are opened or closed in our faces.

Plamen Chetelyazov

#92. The coral that grows at the edge of the reef is always the strongest and most colourful because it faces the greatest battering. It's the same if you're called Honeysuckle. I'd have had a totally different life if I'd been called Mary.

Honeysuckle Weeks

#93. Yes, librarians use punctuation marks to make little emoticons, smiley and frowny faces in their correspondence, but if there were one for an ironic wink, or a sarcastic lip curl, they'd wear it out.

Marilyn Johnson

#94. I loved nuns when I was growing up. I thought they were beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun. I saw them as really pure, disciplined, above average people. They had these serene faces. Nuns are sexy.

Madonna Ciccone

#95. Minds differ still more than faces.

Voltaire

#96. When abandoned women follow their fleeing males with tear-stained faces, screaming you can't do this to me, they reveal that all that they have offered in the name of generosity and altruism has been part of an assumed transaction, in which they were entitled to a certain payoff.

Germaine Greer

#97. ...the boy saw faces disinigrate before his eyes, faces that fell to pieces, then disappeared, leaving a hole.

Charles D'Ambrosio

#98. It was possible, Trixie supposed, that everyone had two faces: Some of us did a better job of hiding it than others.

Jodi Picoult

#99. Wearing makeup is an apology for our actual faces.

Cynthia Heimel

#100. New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

Euripides