Top 94 Quotes About Two Faces
#2. Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
Adam Mansbach
#3. A secret needs two faces to bounce between; a secret needs to see itself in another pair of eyes.
Stephen King
#5. Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit.
Lionel Blue
#6. According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
Plato
#7. That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.
Albert Camus
#8. Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
William Osler
#9. I came to abominate my body, I came to sense that two eyes, two hands, two lungs are as monstrous as two faces.
Jorge Luis Borges
#10. I am so used to having two faces. A face that I had for black America and a face for white America. When Obama became president, I lost both faces. Now I only have one face.
Lee Daniels
#11. You told me a love story. I honestly believe your parents wanted the best for you, but their love almost destroyed your life. If Our Lady, as she appeared in my grandmother's painting, was treading on a snake, that indicates that love has two faces.
Paulo Coelho
#12. The cult of Mao and the cult of Lei Feng were two faces of the same coin: one was the cult of personality; the other, its essential corollary, was the cult of impersonality
Jung Chang
#13. When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.
William Faulkner
#14. Happy is the moment we sit together, with two forms, with two faces, yet one soul. You and I.
Rumi
#15. The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
Italo Calvino
#16. Vish, the creator; and Shiv, the destroyer, are simply two faces of the very same coin.
Ashwin Sanghi
#17. I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.
Abraham Lincoln
#18. The world has two faces :
The day or the bright moment when
we naturally stay alive (awake).
The night or the dark moment when
we naturally remain dead (sleep).
Rohan Nath
#19. How often it happens in life that a man has one thing in his heart and another upon his lips, and wears two faces at one and the same time!
John Of Kronstadt
#20. Let us see rather that like Janus - or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death - religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy ...
Arthur Schopenhauer
#21. Who's the clown in life, the one with the two faces and characters or the persons who Laugh about them?
Jan Jansen
#22. Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Lester Bangs
#23. It was possible, Trixie supposed, that everyone had two faces: Some of us did a better job of hiding it than others.
Jodi Picoult
#24. All to prove to her I'm not lying and I'm not sleeping around on her. She's a vagina with arms, and legs, and two faces. Do you know what it's like to have your penis ridden by a two-hundred thirty pound woman?" He stood now, looking traumatized.
Lucian Bane
#25. Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.
Lee Daniels
#27. For love ... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together
Virginia Woolf
#28. The darkness inside you allows for a more human experience. Giving you the very thing you lacked before: an insider's knowledge of the two faces of man - the constant struggle between darkness and light.
Alyson Noel
#29. According to history, he wrote of humans originally having four arms, four legs, and a single head made up of two faces." I stared awkwardly at him. "But, in fear of their power, Zeus split them all in half, condemning them to a life of searching for their other half...
K.A. Poe
#30. Michael Varus drew his sword. 'My father is Janus, the god of two faces. I am used to seeing through masks and deceptions.
Rick Riordan
#31. Yes, nature has two faces: The pretty one and the ugly one, the disasters! Love the first face and be prepared for the second one!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#32. The darkness lives in everyone. She knew this better than anyone. Everyone had two faces, and she looked deep into us until she found it.
Megan Miranda
#33. Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.
Jack Schwartz
#34. The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
Maureen Murphy
#35. Almost every organization ... exhibits two faces a smiling face which it turns toward its members and a frowning face which it turns to the world outside.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#36. To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin.
Sally Potter
#37. But the old woman said that some have no choice. She said that for the poor any choice was a gift with two faces.
Cormac McCarthy
#38. I met a girl and we ran away, I swore I'd make her happy every day. And how I made her cry, two faces have I.
Bruce Springsteen
#39. Condemning and condoning are two faces in the mirror; but it takes more courage to forgive than to criticize someone.
Kavita Kane
#40. He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.
John Dryden
#42. Plato claimed that we were all joined to someone else once, we were humans with four arms and four legs, and a head of two faces, but we were so powerful we threatened to topple the Gods. So they split us from our sole mates down the middle, and doomed us to live forever without our counterparts
Sarah Crossan
#43. Exploration and invention were the two faces on the coin of progress, and progress was the spirit of the age
David Von Drehle
#44. Love has two faces, one makes you alive and the other destroys you ...
Nourhan Mamdouh
#45. Each and every one of us, at the end of the journey of life, will come face to face with either one or the other of two faces ... And one of them, either the merciful face of Christ or the miserable face of Satan, will say, "Mine, mine." May we be Christ's!
Fulton J. Sheen
#46. I suppose memory has at least two faces, and capricious ones at that.
Darin Strauss
#47. People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
Abbe Pierre
#48. two Lesbian Agents with glazed faces of grafted penis flesh sat sipping spinal fluid through alabaster straws
William S. Burroughs
#49. This is my favorite part of the day. "Good morning, Class Two C," I say. The entire class leaps up and sings out, "Good morning, miss!" Twenty-three faces are smiling at me. Sometimes they shout it with so much conviction that I laugh.
Jamie Zeppa
#51. One word, two lips, three four five fingers form a fist.
One corner, two parents, three four five reasons to hide.
One child, two eyes, three four seventeen years of fear.
A broken broomstick, a pair of wile faces, angry whispers, locks on my door.
Tahereh Mafi
#52. These my two hands / quick to slap my face / before others could slap it.
Gloria E. Anzaldua
#53. Musically, it's difficult to believe Jim has only two hands and one set of vocal cords. You would think that there were a dozen of him if you closed your eyes and listened. From a visual artist's standpoint, Jim is a man of a thousand faces, all spellbinding.
Jeff Mathews
#54. Like two moths clumsily bumping together, with no more weight than that, their lips touched. Then before they knew how it happened, they were clinging together, blindly pressing their faces towards each other.
Philip Pullman
#55. Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces.
Craig L. Thomas
#56. I have no face, only two profiles clapped together.
Margot Asquith
#57. Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to succeed in life. Abraham Lincoln, born to a poor family, faced defeat through most of his life. Lost eight elections, failed two businesses, had a nervous breakdown, and still became president.
Dave Winfield
#58. In the cottage, two old women stared, envy and hope mixing in their faces, at a tall, handsome woman with black hair and dark eyes and red, red lips.
Neil Gaiman
#59. I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people.
Faith Ringgold
#60. Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe.
Peter Farrelly
#61. There are billions of different faces in the world; but there are only two different characters: Good and bad! And here is a vital mission for the world: To convert the bad into the good!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#62. She was too curious to back out now. While they watched her with knowing faces, she tried the rusty doorknob. Two things happened at once. A whiff of musty air assaulted her nostrils, and her eyes were dazzled by darkness.
Erica Miles
#63. The two of them shared a look over my head. Gabriel made several threatening faces. Dick responded with rude gestures. Eventually, they looked like two inebriated mimes having a dance off.
Molly Harper
#64. The flash lights irritated the women's eyes, but in the sudden glare their faces, so empty of expression when they had sex, at last came alive, and I saw two bluecollar housewives who had ditched their husbands and aspired to the most bourgeois of lives.
J.G. Ballard
#65. The learned are said to have seeing eyes;The unlearned have only two sores on their faces.
Thiruvalluvar
#66. The Sea of Glass
I looked and saw a sea
roofed over with rainbows,
In the midst of each
two lovers met and departed;
Then the sky was full of faces
with gold glories behind them
Ezra Pound
#67. Two Polish men at Halloween with burned faces. What happened? They were bobbing for french fries.
Henny Youngman
#68. Evil is there, out there and in your faces! You have two choices, either run or fight! To run is to die a coward! To fight is to win!
Stephen Richards
#69. Statues lined the stairs and stood, dotted across the roof. But they had been brutalized by time and the weather. Some were missing arms. Many had no faces. Once they had been saints and angels. Two hundred years standing in London had turned them into cripples.
Anthony Horowitz
#70. When I see you, I think I wonder which face she sees when she looks into the mirror.
C. JoyBell C.
#71. The two brothers looked so alike now and their faces seemed to ripple under the weight of powerful emotions. Hatred, love, violence and fear. The crowd stepped back to form a circle, as though they might be caught between falling buildings.
Peadar O'Guilin
#72. I had two or three faced people, I don't like the feature that they are have a lot of faces, what's bad?
You never know which face they are using!
Deyth Banger
#73. There are two types of people: you have people that like psychological horror and you have those that like everything in their face.
Tom Six
#74. What I was is not what I am. Two men, identical faces, but different eyes. In what they have seen, in what they reflect upon the world.
Steven Erikson
#75. And there were two moons; the clock moon with four faces in four night directions above the solemn black courthouse, and the real moon rising in vanilla whiteness from the dark east.
Ray Bradbury
#76. When Miss Bobbit saw them, two boys whose flower-masked faces were like yellow moons, she rushed down the steps, her arms outstretched.
Truman Capote
#77. Only two guards remained - a pair the professor had christened Misery and Despair because of the way their faces 'drooped with the weight of their ignorance'.
A.E. Nasr
#78. Stop it." Cletus snapped his fingers in front of our faces. "I hate it when you two mind-meld through your eyeballs.
Penny Reid
#79. Any institution faces two basic choices if they hope to spark new ideas. One is to leverage the brains trust within their organization by creating a special event dedicated to new thinking. The other is to look outside themselves to stimulate solutions.
Simon Mainwaring
#80. And how sweet that would have been: the two of them back by the milk shed, squatting by the churn, smashing cold, lumpy butter into their faces with not a care in the world.
Toni Morrison
#81. I'll tell you, the screws' faces painted an even greater picture than my words can describe. We kept emptying our pots in the hall for two weeks before the screws started emptying our piss pots for us, but this didn't last too long after we started calling them bellhops.
Stephen Richards
#82. In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.
Barack Obama
#83. Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance.
Blaise Pascal
#84. Later, Thuran also found it necessary to construct a similar primitive garment, so that, with their bare legs and heavily bearded faces, they looked not unlike reincarnations of two prehistoric progenitors of the human race. Thuran acted like one.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#85. Within, there were several ponderous brazen-bound volumes of medieval date, a thin manuscript of yellowing parchment, and two portraits whose faces had been turned to the wall, as if it were unlawful for even the darkness of the sealed closet to behold them.
Clark Ashton Smith
#86. And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to.
Rosamund Pike
#87. When one faces two ghuls, waste no time wishing for fewer.
Saladin Ahmed
#88. Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
Austin O'Malley
#89. A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.
Elizabeth Bowen
#90. Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.
Rex Stout
#91. Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.
Byron Nelson
#92. Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#93. I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
John Ruskin
#94. On my own, the ordinariness of the moment is almost too much to stand. I glance around the restaurant, taking in the faces of the waiters, the customers. Two dozen noisy conversations mixing into a kind of meaningless roar. I think, What if you people knew what I knew? -
Blake Crouch
