Face Quotes - page 7

Altars should face the east, and should always be placed on a lower level than are the statues in the temples, so that those who are praying and sacrificing may look upwards towards the divinity. (Vitruvius)

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it. (Rolling Stone magazine 1997)

Robert Smith (musician)

What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.

Learned Hand

It's unpleasant to find that what you had thought of as moral scruples suddenly seem not quite so important in the face of a stack of money.

John Varley

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

Richard Savage

The human face is the organic seat of beauty.... It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

Eliza Farnham

How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.

Matsuo Bashō

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Lord Byron

I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.

Albert Kesselring

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)

The most entertaining surface on earth is the human face.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and Amaranta Úrsula were the only happy beings, and the most happy on the face of the earth.

Gabriel García Márquez

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Søren Kierkegaard

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

William Shakespeare

God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.

William Shakespeare

Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face you are me.

Toni Morrison

I still think the worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

Max Eastman

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race I love the languid patience of thy face.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed - if we are not willing - we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Don't be negative. It shows on your face.

Shahrukh Khan

Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.

Tony Blair

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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