Faced Quotes

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The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is… — Julio Cortazar
I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for… — Jerry Spinelli
You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver… — Lois Lowry
If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and… — Marcus Aurelius
Leigh did what any sane female faced with such an e-mail would do: deleted it to resist the temptation of replying, cleared her trash to… — Lauren Weisberger
Yes, my tiara sets off the whole thing nicely," said Auntie Muriel in a rather carrying whisper. "But I must say, Ginevra's dress is far… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish. — Jules Renard
...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run. — Wendelin Van Draanen
Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism… — Jonathan Franzen
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the… — Carson McCullers
I saw Jonathan after he faced the fear demon, you know. It showed itself to him as you. That told me all I needed to… — Cassandra Clare
When she faced the noise, she found the mayorâ€™s wife in a brand-new bathrobe and slippers. On the breast pocket of the robe sat an… — Markus Zusak
Sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a chance to learn the appropriate greeting. Faced with your own possibilities, the hard part… — Pearl Cleage
I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I'm jealous of your hooks," Kevin replied. "Having no hands is better than having two equally strong hands." Don't be ridiculous," one of the white-faced… — Daniel Handler
Then the room relaxed in cheers and babbling, and she turned in his arms to kiss him hard and cling to him, and he thought… — Diana Gabaldon
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence… — Anne Carson
Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become… — Karl Jaspers
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're lots easier to… — Madeleine L'Engle

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