Faces Quotes · Page 97

Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.

— Carl Sandburg

Let's face it, the Obama administration was handed a pretty poor deal from the previous administration.

— Richard Armitage

I may be able to put a good book tape on in the car on the way home and I will have…

— Stuart Pearce

But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while.

— Martin Amis

To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.

— Rumi

Sometimes I even amaze myself, and sometimes I do things that make me want to punch myself in the face.

— Freddy Adu

The face of the sun is not without expression, but it tells us precious little of what is in its heart.

— Armin Joseph Deutsch

See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God. Your rhyme is like an empty prison...a waste of bars.

— Lord Finesse

How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons…

— Sonia Johnson

Nobody likes to see that which they've invested in disappear from the face of the earth before they've even died. This is…

— Twyla Tharp

It's important to leave your face without makeup for a while after waking up...Let your skin breathe a while before applying your…

— Diane von Furstenberg

It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White…

— Alan Bennett

When an elder turns to face the dead, that means he turns away from facing the future and his own retirement in…

— Robert Bly

I have seen a lifetime of transgender people and it was hard enough being gay in the '50s and early '60s. One…

— Patti Smith

Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to…

— Vicente Fox

There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking…

— William Powell

She moved from being a young woman into having the angular look of a queen, someone who has made her face with…

— Michael Ondaatje

A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image,--the broken glimmer of a…

— Robert Aris Willmott

At the moment I put the bread and wine into those dark hands, once stained with the blood of cannibalism, now stretched…

— John Gibson Paton

You look out into the audience and you see so much joy on people's faces. You make eye contact with people who…

— Christine McVie

The first time we did it [voice-over], I was trying to use my face and my eyes more so and really portray…

— Elle Fanning

All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated…

— Karl Marx

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium. Like the idea of seeing your parents naked or having somebody go down…

— Lena Dunham

When I was a teenager, I thought I wanted to be an actor. I worked on an Indian soap opera that was…

— Meera Menon

Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.

— Octave Mirbeau

Hurt me to see the pain across my mothers face, every time my father's fist would put her in her place.

— Christina Aguilera

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

— Carol Moseley Braun

The secret is to moisturize the face. I've been doing that since I was 17 years old. (on looking young)

— Rod Stewart

Always walk towards open doors. And if they slam shut in your face, kick that sucker in and keep going.

— Richard Gere

FACE A SINGLE FOE as if you are facing ten thousand enemies; face ten thousand enemies as a single foe.

— Morihei Ueshiba

As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck.

— John Knowles

I learned that the world doesn't want to be saved, and it will f**king punch you in the face if you try.

— Gerard Way

Every single religion that has ever been on the face of the Earth, ever, is a cult. That’s all they are.

— Joe Rogan

When we face a choice between adding features and resolving security issues, we need to choose security.

— Bill Gates

I wish I was smaller. There are things about my face I'd change. But like all women I do the best I…

— Brandy Clark

That's one of the central challenges we face - how to stay true to events and compress the fundamentals.

— Paul Greengrass

The face staring back at me isn't beautiful but she isn't something that would scare the horses, either.

— Libba Bray

By the age of six or seven, I was already doing voices and faces, making my friends and my mother laugh.

— George Carlin

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

— P. J. O'Rourke

It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.

— Arthur Schopenhauer