Top 70 Save Face Sayings
#2. Whether or not you're in politics, everything is political. We all save face for others to perceive us in the best light. Nothing is real until you break down the walls and reveal the ugliness.
E.K. Blair
#3. To save face, it's better not to ask sex from the ex, but to give everything the axe.
Anthony Liccione
#4. When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face.
Sarah Dessen
#5. Stories migrate secretly. The assumption that whatever we now believe is just common sense, or what we always knew, is a way to save face. It's also a way to forget the power of a story and of a storyteller, the power in the margins, and the potential for change.
Rebecca Solnit
#6. The problem with always having to be right is that sometimes you're not. And so, if you're like me, those times when you're not, you try and save face - especially after you've seriously fucked up. You make one bad decision and then another, trying to fix that very first fuck-up.
Chris Bohjalian
#7. Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected.
Courtney Milan
#8. Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.
Conor Oberst
#9. You can only save face for just so long before you wake up and realize you have nothing left worth saving.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#10. Neither gender is routinely more jealous - although women are more willing to work to win back a lover, while men tend to flaunt their money and status and are more likely to walk out to protect their self-esteem or save face.
Helen Fisher
#11. You wanted this," he said quietly.
"I want closure," I returned, at this point mostly lying in order to save face.
"You want me."
Whoosh.
There went my breath.
Kristen Ashley
#12. Isn't the best way to save face to keep the lower part shut?
Steven Wright
#14. The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.
Lou Holtz
#15. It is time to stop waiting for someone to save us. It is time to face the truth of our situation - that we're all in this together, that we all have a voice - and figure out how to mobilize the hearts and minds of everyone in our workplaces and communities.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#16. Contestants, whether it be for an army or a posse, we must be strong. We must face our fears, if only to save me and my worldly possessions. So reapply your lipstick, we're going to the Fearnasium, Mrs. Wellington announced stoically before exiting the dining room.
Gitty Daneshvari
#17. After we hung up, I took the joint. If I was going to die here, in the creepy basement out of a horror movie, in an epic snowstorm that was like an icy prison, with a wife unwilling to pretend-like Bananarama to maybe save her husband's life, I should at least go out with a smile on my face.
Eric Spitznagel
#18. To save the audience we must fill the stage with murderers, adulterers and madmen; in short, we must fire a salvo of monsters at them. They are our monster which we will temporarily free ourselves from only to face another day.
Nelson Rodrigues
#19. We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.
Jefferson Davis
#20. Perry," he said quietly, his fingers trailing down the side of my face, "you'll never have to save my life. You gave me life. I never lived a single day until the first day I met you.
Karina Halle
#21. I've got such effeminate hands. I could never be strong. Whenever I even got to a save, my fingers would just bend back and the ball would hit me in the face.
Robert Pattinson
#22. For to save mankind's future freedom, we must face up to any risk that is necessary. We will always seek peace
but we will never surrender.
John F. Kennedy
#23. She clung to the memories of her youth as if they were the only way she could save a piece of her soul from whatever it was she was about to face.
Emmie White
#24. My name is Llian. I've come to save you."
Said to Karan just before Llian falls flat on his face in front of her.
Ian Irvine
#25. If you have the guts to do anything,then you better save enough to face the consequences. Becoming bigger than life requires guts & instinct.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#26. We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our lives at all ... the more you understand, the more you will realize your own responsibility.
Chogyam Trungpa
#27. Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.
Robert Hunter
#28. The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
H.L. Mencken
#29. One smile upon your face can save another's day from waste.
Patty Smith
#30. Keep strong, if possible. In any case, keep cool. Have unlimited patience. Never corner an opponent, and always assist him to save his face. Put yourself in his shoes - so as to see things through his eyes. Avoid self-righteousness like the devil - nothing is so self-blinding.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#31. All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever.
Ethel Lynn Beers
#32. The older I get the funnier I get ... Think what I'll save in not having my face lifted.
Linda Martin
#33. Mia looked over the new bruises on Tric's face, shook her head. 'My brave centurion. Riding in on his charger to save his poor damsel? Hold me, brave sir, I fear I shall swoon.
Jay Kristoff
#34. Science is important, but so is ethics, so is balancing life. To destroy life to save life - it's one of the real ethical dilemmas that we face.
George W. Bush
#35. You couldn't save your mom because you weren't strong enough to do so. As for me, I couldn't stand and face the titan because I simply didn't have the courage! Forgive me... Forgive me.
Hajime Isayama
#36. How did you decide when someone was irretrievably lost - when they were so evil or toxic or just plain set in their ways that you had to face the fact they were never going to change? How long could you keep trying to save them, and when did you give up and grieve for them as though they were dead?
Rick Riordan
#37. Yes," Jace said, "I regret having disobeyed you."
No! Clary thought, but her heart sank. Was he giving up, did he think it was the only way to save her and Simon?
Valentine's face softened. "Jonathan-"
"Especially," Jace said, "since I plan to do it again. Right now.
Cassandra Clare
#38. I hate hats! Hats just give you really bad hair! I had a hat sometimes. Frankly, you get burnt so much anyway, it's beside the point. And when you're walking into the western sun, no hat in the world is going to save your face and neck from being sizzled.
Robyn Davidson
#39. If something happened to Gillian, I'd rip the world down to save her, even if she spat in my face when I did. That's what parenthood means.
Seanan McGuire
#40. The dangers that face the world can, every one of them, be traced back to science. The salvations that may save the world will, every one of them, be traced back to science.
Isaac Asimov
#41. If I can save a few lives, I'm going to feel much better about myself when this war finally ends. Or if I die, I'll be able to face the Lord.
Dean Hughes
#42. Pitch tugged at Orias's coat. "Don't. Don't do it." Mactalde set his goblet on a nearby table and rose. The fire lit his face from the bottom up. "You've come so far on your quest to save your people. I don't think you can abandon them now." And the gut-wrenching truth was ... he couldn't.
K.M. Weiland
#43. The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
#44. America is still a free country - nobody is saying it isn't - but we accept that, in the face of discernible risk, or even imaginable risk, the government has an obligation to step in and save us.
Patrick Bedard
#45. I'm worthless," Lionheart says. "I couldn't save her. I couldn't redeem my honor." "You never can," the Prince replies. He takes Lionheart by the shoulders and forces him to sit up, to face him. "But do you think my grace insufficient to forgive you?
Anne Elisabeth Stengl
#46. Fang looked at me, hope in his eyes, and I smirked at him. I save the huge emotional kissy-face for imminent death scenes. This probably didn't qualify.
James Patterson
#47. What the jogger's face shows is not boredom but contemplation, which Thomas Aquinas described as man's highest activity save one - contemplation plus putting the fruits of that contemplation into action.
George Sheehan
#48. Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.
Alan Dershowitz
#49. It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.
Margaret Cho
#50. The purpose of God is not to save us from hell; the purpose of God is to save us to make us like Christ and to make us like God. God will never be done with us until the day we see His face, when His name will be on our foreheads; and we shall be like Him because we shall see Him as He is.
A.W. Tozer
#51. I don't deserve your love, Eden. You have my heart, but yours should remain in your chest. Save it for a better man. Save it for someone who's worth it." His eyes shimmered as tears threatened to spill over. "You need to leave me."
"No," I told him, grabbing his face. "I need to love you.
Karina Halle
#52. Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save his face? He didn't ask for your opinion. He didn't want it. Why argue with him? Always avoid the acute angle.
Dale Carnegie
#53. It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's face ...
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
#54. You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So you could save me back.
Jodi Picoult
#55. Save someone's face once and your influence with him rises. Save his face every time you can, and there is practically nothing he won't do for you.
Dale Carnegie
#56. I would never kiss you!" The siren's screech brought me back to the Everneath, and I drew away from Cole.
He had a devilish grin on his face, and he turned toward the siren. "I know. But the real Nik would - if it was to save my life." He looked back at me. "Hey, Nik.
Brodi Ashton
#57. Shall hope prevail where clamorous hate is rife,
Shall sweet love prosper or high dreams have place
Amid the tumult of reverberant strife
'Twixt ancient creeds, 'twixt race and ancient race,
That mars the grave, glad purposes of life,
Leaving no refuge save thy succoring face?
Sarojini Naidu
#58. She must face the forest of her mother's past in order to save herself and the one she loves.
Carrie Ryan
#59. The results would have stayed on the watch face until the batteries died. But trying to make time stand still this way would have been a mistake. It is just as important to erase times eventually as to save them at first.
Joe Henderson
#60. Here we are standing face to face, isn't this world a crazy place, just when I thought the chance had passed, you go and save the best for last.
Vanessa L. Williams
#61. To save myself I must face myself, which may be the hardest of all things to face.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#62. The frailest woman will become a heroine when the life of her own child is at stake. And only the will to save the race and native land or the State, which offers protection to the race, has in all ages been the urge which has forced men to face the weapons of their enemies.
Adolf Hitler
#63. We need new words for what this is, this hunger entering our loneliness like birds, stunning our eyes into rays of hope. we need the flutter that can save us, something that will swirl across the face of what we have become and bring us grace.
Lucille Clifton
#64. Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again ... Scarlett, always save something to fear - even as you save something to love ...
Margaret Mitchell
#65. Are you mad?" She breathes from behind me. I spin around to face her.
"What do you think?" I clip.
"That you're going to save me." She says quietly.
K. Lars
#66. On rare occasions, we'll still align. I will pass through your shadow and bask in your sunlight; my face awash in gold and red and I'll remember the way things were. But lunar eclipses, they're few and far between and they're not enough to save us.
Stephanie Georgopulos
#67. Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#68. I'm stuck fighting. (Acheron) You're stuck fighting. But you're welcome to come share my beach any time you get tired of the brawl. (Savitar) Save me a spot. If this blows up in my face, I'll be back with my tail forever tucked between my legs. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#69. To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.
Dejan Stojanovic
#70. Who dreams of a son,
save one,
childless, having no bright
face to flatter its own,
who dreams of a son?
Hilda Doolittle
