Quotes About The Faces

#1. The faces of these young people, especially those who were military men, bore that expression of condescending respect for their elders which seems to say to the older generation, "We are prepared to respect and honor you, but all the same remember that the future belongs to us.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.

George Wald

#3. As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives.

Brian Moore

#4. Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the faces of) his cows, and of another such patient, an attendant in a Natural History Museum, who mistook his own reflection for the diorama of an ape

Oliver Sacks

#5. Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines.

Margaret Atwood

#6. Most words for ghost are pieces of mica that carefully layered
will make a window out of fire. It's cold and the faces at the window
do what faces usually do they open onto a genetic history
that looks up suddenly and it's the eyes everyone says you can't say that's not alive

Cole Swensen

#7. We only have to recall the color of the faces of those who were most devastated by Katrina, to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans.

Jimmy Carter

#8. The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they're forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again.

Claudia Black

#9. The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

Elizabeth Peyton

#10. Age continually alters the faces of those who think or study, and so their portraits differ from one another and don't even resemble them for very long. I dream so much and live so little that I'm sometimes only three years old. But the next day I'm three hundred, if the dream has been sombre.

George Sand

#11. Masks camouflage the faces of both good and evil.
Keeps hidden what is a truth and what is a lie.

Patti Roberts

#12. The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.

Kailash Satyarthi

#13. Certain empty houses that seemed to stare like the faces of people suffering from terrible mental illness. An empty barn on the outskirts of town, the hayloft door swinging open and closed on rusty hinges, first disclosing darkness, then hiding it, then disclosing it again.

Stephen King

#14. To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.

Virginia Woolf

#15. Really! But weren't you fearfully tempted?'
'In the abstract but not in the concrete,' said Ursula. 'When it comes to the point, one isn't even tempted - oh, if I were tempted, I'd marry like a shot. I'm only tempted NOT to.' The faces of both sisters suddenly lit up with amusement.

D.H. Lawrence

#16. Emma still had a joyless look, and, habitually, at the corners of her mouth, she had that tightness that crumples the faces of old maids and bankrupts.

Gustave Flaubert

#17. We wear on our faces the results of what we believe and how we behave, and such behavior is most evident in the eyes and on the faces of those who have lived many years.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#18. Sometimes
when i wake up
in the morning
and see all the faces
i just can't
breathe
from Sometimes

Nikki Giovanni

#19. You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#20. If Allah wants to send me a message,
he'll do so on the faces of my brothers and sisters.

Michael Muhammad Knight

#21. Let me apologize for all the faces I've worn, none of them my own.

Ruth Whitman

#22. All thoughts of newbloods and Maven, my brother and Cal and Kilorn are gone entirely. Even the faces that haunt me, the faces of the dead, have disappeared.Funny, now that I'm dying, my ghosts decide to leave. I wish they would come back. I wish I didn't have to die alone.

Victoria Aveyard

#23. When I write, I speak with ghosts for years, and I see images that are a little bit out of focus. I see faces, but the faces change. At the moment that it's a real human being that's flesh and bone, it changes a character. It's much more precise and complex.

Jaco Van Dormael

#24. Those who were beginning to grow old had an air of youth, while there was something mature in the faces of the young.

Gustave Flaubert

#25. Little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent values of hard work and accomplishment and service to city and nation still exist.

David Dinkins

#26. Just looking at all the faces here reminds me of some of the great work that was done this year ... by cosmetic surgeons.

Ricky Gervais

#27. Winning cannot become your habit unless defeats have torn you apart
and you sit in the battle field
stitching back yourself
one piece at a time
laughing in the faces of all defeats.

Chetan M. Kumbhar

#28. I always remember the faces and names of my enemies. I don't want to forget to kill anyone.

Maria V. Snyder

#29. The last thing I remember is the look of horror on the faces of the audience. But what had caused me to feel the most humiliation was when I noticed Blake Jansen, the coolest boy in our class, staring down at me in disbelief.

Katrina Kahler

#30. It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.

Nadine Gordimer

#31. I don't need to read the news. I see it on the faces of everyone I meet.

Greg Brown

#32. It wasn't fair. I wanted to take her to friend court. I wanted to sue her. But I could see the faces of the jury when it was revealed that her mother had just died. Died.

Leila Howland

#33. Courage is not measured by
Marching bands and banners in the wind.
If you have not walked
The bloody lines and seen the faces,
You have no right to describe it so.
We die here to keep you safe at home,
And what we suffer
Pray you may never know.

Charles Todd

#34. I do not need love now, I needed it while I was down and the majority of the faces that are showing up, were not anywhere to be found when I really needed their support. Now they swarm like flies.

D. Hunter

#35. I learned that man lives differently, depending on whether he is in a horizontal or vertical position. The shadows on the walls, on the faces, are not the same.

Elie Wiesel

#36. Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Khalil Gibran

#37. Prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet - seems

Susan Cain

#38. Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.

Georges Rouault

#39. Grind the faces of the poor.

Isaiah

#40. You're much the senior in years, Master Axl, but in matters of blood, it may be I'm the elder and you the youth. I've seen dark hatred as bottomless as the sea on the faces of old women and tender children, and some days felt such hatred myself.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#41. I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.

Robert Breault

#42. And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.

Shane Claiborne

#43. Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band ... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.

Stan Kenton

#44. The lawn and drive had been crowded with the faces of those who guessed at his corruption - and he had stood on those steps, concealing his incorruptible dream, as he waved them good-by.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#45. It's all the same, only the names will change, everyday it seems we're wasting away. Another place, where the faces are so cold, I'd drive all night just to get back home.

Jon Bon Jovi

#46. His regret was cold and offered no comfort. Filled up with words that he wished he had spoken and the faces he wished he had spoken them to.

Matthew FitzSimmons

#47. It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.

S.D. Gordon

#48. You can recognize the people who live for others by the haunted look on the faces of the others.)

Elizabeth Gilbert

#49. The people moved sluggishly through the warmth, and he moved with them, conscious of his height among the seated figures, nodding to the faces he now recognized.

John Edward Williams

#50. Even if we forget the faces of our friends, we will never forget the bonds that were carved into our souls.

Jun Maeda

#51. Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad; yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life.

Fernando Pessoa

#52. A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings.

Francis Henry Taylor

#53. The impending separation from love, more than the ending of life, had kept all that faith alive. It was the hope of having a little more time to love that had made her mother hold crosses, and look to the faces of statues, and cast words up into the air.

J.R. Ward

#54. The greatest joy a man can know is to conquer his enemies and drive them before him. To ride their horses and take away their possessions, to see the faces of those who were dear to them bedewed with tears, and to clasp their wives and daughters in his arms.

Conn Iggulden

#55. I glance into the faces of all these people out for a Sunday stroll, but I'm not seeing eyes and noses and mouths. I'm seeing stories. Every person has a story. All the hopes and dreams. And fears. And secrets.
In every face.

Andrew Clements

#56. If you want proof of what the country is really all about, just walk through the National September 11 Memorial Museum. Here it is, in the faces of the victims, in the stories of bravery, in the souls and memory of the survivors, the next of kin.

Mike Barnicle

#57. The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.

Kevyn Aucoin

#58. When I look at the faces of turning drivers, I mostly see them looking in the direction of oncoming motorists rather than at the people they're about to turn into.

Robert James Thomson

#59. The masks had been made in Korea, delivering back to the West the faces they had given the rest of the globe: presidents, screen stars, and mass murderers. The rubber filament inevitably snapped from the staple after five minutes. The graft wouldn't take.

Colson Whitehead

#60. There is nothing more frightening than the faces of people whom one does not know but who seem to know one, and be amused by one.

Rebecca West

#61. As he still groped for that one moment, Father Dowling began to think that the whole city for years had been whispering its story to him out of the darkness in snatches, in a huge confessional where he could not see the faces ...

Morley Callaghan

#62. 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

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

Markus Zusak

#64. 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

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

G.K. Chesterton

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

Tom Reiss

#67. 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

#68. If there was a light at the end of the tunnel, the flickering bulb above my head wasn't it. The faces of my tormentors were no angels - they were hell's minions and I'd stepped into their purgatory.

Susan Illene

#69. The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo Park.' Then the Faces just had 'Stay with Me.' So both bands could be considered one-hit wonders in America, even though we had several huge hits in England.

Ian McLagan

#70. Some wounds never show, not even in the mirror, until we see them in the expressions on the faces of people we love.

Cameron Jace

#71. It is by studium that I am interested in so many photographs, whether I receive them as political testimony or enjoy them as good historical scenes: for it is culturally (this connotation is present in studium) that I participate in the figures, the faces, the gestures, the settings, the actions.

Roland Barthes

#72. One of the faces of God is the face of a woman.

Paulo Coelho

#73. For too many families, the aftershock of the war in Afghanistan will be felt every day, most probably for the rest of their lives. I know because I've looked into the eyes and the faces of grieving mothers.

Ross Kemp

#74. Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#75. I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow ... for bitter bread, earned under the frowns of some who have no natural or divine right to be above me, and entirely owe their grandeur and honor to grinding the faces of the poor ...

James Otis

#76. There was some murmuring, but also some grins on the faces of the men looking on: the sight of their Captain sitting on the ground and eye to eye with a young hobbit, legs well apart, bristling with wrath, was one beyond their experience.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#77. One by one, like shadows emerging from the mist, they appeared. The faces of the people she had loved with her heart of wildfire.

Sarah J. Maas

#78. For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

Emma Donoghue

#79. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which. November

George Orwell

#80. The faces were empty as plates, and nobody seemed to be breathing.

Sylvia Plath

#81. War was waged to make peace. Abuse was love. Welcome to the funhouse, where strange mirrors reflect the faces of hell.

Dean Koontz

#82. Designers used to be kept behind veiled doors. Now they are often the faces of companies.

Charles Pelly

#83. On my last ride on the RR train I looked almost as lovingly at the faces and expressions of my fellow passengers as if I were staring a a photograph of times long past. They did not know that they made a photograph. They did not understand the vanishing background of their lives ...

Mark Helprin

#84. Then they were all standing and applauding, yeah, they were giving him a fucking standing O, and in their faces he saw what every poet or would-be poet hopes to see when he or she finished reading: the faces of people suddenly awakened from a dream brighter than any reality.

Stephen King

#85. We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#86. But they are only the faces of the dead. Coming into detail as we hurtle toward them. They see us, too. Fingers scratching at the ice's rough underside, desperate to be the first to pull us down.

Andrew Pyper

#87. Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless.

Ray Bradbury

#88. They had forgotten their own names, the voices of their mothers, the faces of their fathers.

Joe Hill

#89. You're looking through the kaleidoscope of God and seeing God's face in so many ways, as friends, as strangers, passersby, country roads, jammed freeways, the cancer ward, the maternity ward - all the faces of God surround you at all times.

Frederick Lenz

#90. There was something stunned in the faces of the children, blinking and tentative. The slow, dark, dull submarine of the lives in which they were the human cargo had abruptly surfaced. Their blood was filled with a kind of crippling nitrogen of wonder.

Michael Chabon

#91. You could say that it's in talking movies that inner life begins to appear. You can see things happen to the faces of people that were neither planned nor rehearsed.

Mike Nichols

#92. Insanity is a very lonely and empty existence - it's painfully true. They may laugh and smile, and skip and dance, but behind all the faces there is hollowness like a bottomless pit. The living dead, depression is a terrible illness, so is psychosis, the mentally inflicted beyond cure.

Stephen Richards

#93. I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity ... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

Paul McCartney

#94. The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.

Bruce Springsteen

#95. Some Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the desert. They were fighting men, trained for battle, expert with shield and spear. Their faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as gazelles on the mountains. e

Anonymous

#96. The way things are going the faces on next year's bubble-gum cards will be lawyers.

Reggie Jackson

#97. He ran his hands along the faces of the machines, the flashing lights like happy eyes trying to soothe his anger, the electrical hum like whispers to their master, hoping to calm him.

Hugh Howey

#98. There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met.

Jodi Picoult

#99. We know - more from the faces immortalized on a handful of photographs than from the words of survivors - that the women and men who experienced that moment in Hiroshima believed they had encountered the beginning of the end of the world. There will never be enough future to prove them wrong.

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

#100. I have loved the feel of the grass under my feet, and the sound of the running streams by my side. The hum of the wind in the tree-tops has always been good music to me, and the face of the fields has often comforted me more than the faces of men.

John Burroughs