Faces Quotes · Page 116

I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.

— Ansel Elgort

A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the…

— Aldo Leopold

I want to be the only American actress who doesn't do any plastic surgery or anything. I think older faces are great.

— Kathy Baker

Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of…

— Dalai Lama

There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but few who will face a hostile society.

— Thiruvalluvar

All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different…

— Mackenzie Crook

Ahmadinejad is just a buffoon, sort of a clown on the international scene who tries to be provocative so he can get…

— Jimmy Carter

The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.

— Eric Maisel

Kisten, please don't leave me," I begged, and his eyes opened. "I'm cold," he said, fear rising in his blue eyes. I…

— Kim Harrison

At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a Socratic method,…

— Carl Bernstein

You must earn what you have. Life does not give you anything. You must give in order to get. You must stand…

— Iyanla Vanzant

Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with…

— Edwin Newman

I told you before, Katsa. I won't fight when you're angry. I won't solve a disagreement between us with blows." He lifted…

— Kristin Cashore

But if it matters to you, you'll be able to choose Gryffindor over Slytherin. The Sorting Hat takes your choice into account."…

— Anonymous

The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is…

— John Paul DeJoria

My face is muffled in my mother's clothing. Her rhinestones injure me. See: my feet are going. Fish flee the forefinger of…

— William H. Gass

In heaven we will not longer cry, feel sad, or face death. Our bodies will be perfect, locked into eternal youth... ageless.

— Paul P. Enns

I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I…

— John Oliver

I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched.

— Greg Kinnear

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

— Patti Smith

In reality, I've probably got the lowest self-esteem of anybody I know, which has really been rubbed in my face lately in…

— Bradford Cox

At some point, you have to sit down and face the page alone. At some point, the final decisions need to be…

— John McNally

I remember being very psyched for our first tours, despite not knowing about the endless stream of situations and setbacks that we'd…

— Ariel Pink

Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and…

— Glen Duncan

A slow smile began on Gideon's face, and his blue eyes sparkled. With a shake of his head, he put his hand…

— Lisa Kleypas

The only problem we really have is we think we're not supposed to have problems! Problems call us to higher level- -…

— Tony Robbins

From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.

— Zainab Salbi

Logic was puny in the face of my wrath. Logic was puny and magic was mighty: I had just gotten rebirthed, refilled…

— C.E. Murphy

What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by government determined…

— Learned Hand

He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed…

— Tracy Chevalier

I had a dog I raised for many years. He was a Pekingese with big eyes and a flat face, very cute.

— Stephen Chow

An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

— Barry Bonds

We need to face the fact that we need more money in order to deliver Jeremy Hunt's absolutely correct drive to guarantee…

— Michael Gove

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

— Naveen Jain

When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard.

— Wassily Kandinsky

I stared at her closely, studying her face, her eyes, everything. This was the angel that tamed a demon; the soul that…

— Dan Wells

The girl in me wanted to slap Lung across his face and yell, "Get your eyes off my sticky buns, ya creep!

— Jennifer Rardin