Face Quotes - page 3

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. (W. Somerset Maugham)
No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face. View quote
John Donne
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions. View quote
Georges Rouault
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements. View quote
Helena Bonham Carter
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. View quote
Henry James
God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. View quote
Henry Miller
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen. View quote
John Dryden
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. (Iris Murdoch)
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it. View quote
Lynne Cheney
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world. View quote
George H. W. Bush
They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not. View quote
Katherine Anne Porter
I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well." View quote
Emo Philips
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. View quote
W. Clement Stone
Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out. View quote
Norman Rockwell
It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. View quote
Edward Steichen
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. (William Cowper)
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own. View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. View quote
Bertrand Russell
We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World! View quote
Henry Fielding