On the evening of Sofia Claremont's seventeenth birthday…

Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

— William Ellery Channing

Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked…

— Paul Theroux

“Gerber, who studied seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ottoman court decisions, points to examples of Ottoman muftis (official jurists) who, despite being paid by the government,…

— Mustafa Akyol

“True love is like a ghost; everyone talks of it, but few have met it face to face.”

— Anonymous

“Even when you're talking to them face to face you have this feeling of not connecting, as if the words just pass through them.…

— Ryū Murakami

“Each time we come to savasana, we practice dying—we surrender the body to the earth and prepare for our destiny in this life. Facing…

— Darren Main

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Though science makes no use for poetry, poetry is enriched by science. Poetry “takes up” the scientific vision and re-expresses its truths, but always…

— L.P. Jacks

“The goal of human life," says Ramakrishna, "is to meet God face to face." But the magic is this: if we look deeply into…

— Stephen Cope

“Do you want to know something from the beyond? Do you want to chat with divine beings face to face? It is indispensable to…

— Samael Aun Weor

Relationships start out face to face...and end back to back.

— Anonymous

While I was still going to embrace social media, I knew I had to do things that nobody else was doing. I decided I…

— Mark Edward

“It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world. They are the two principles that have…

— Abraham Lincoln