Faced Quotes
911 quotes by 742 authors
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If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around…
— Vera Nazarian
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I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard our secrets. But…
— Gena Showalter
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I suppose he'll die soon. I'm expecting it, like you do for a dog that's seventeen. There's no way to know how I'll react. He'll…
— Markus Zusak
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I walked inside Macy’s and faced the pathetic spectacle of a department store full of shoppers, none of whom were shopping for themselves. Without the…
— Rachel Cohn
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Say the sea. Say the sea. Say the sea. So that perhaps a drop of that magic may wander through time, and something might find…
— Alessandro Baricco
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She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago,…
— Annie Dillard
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These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I…
— Marcel Proust
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We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.
— Aidan Chambers
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Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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So, my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism, or ageism, or lookism, or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask…
— Tina Fey
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The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Most people had not lived…
— James A. Baldwin
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When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of…
— Eckhart Tolle
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I have always disliked the morning, it is too responsible a time, with the daylight demanding that it be 'faced' and (usually when I wake…
— Janet Frame
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No. Haven’t you been listening?†Marcus would always remember that moment. It was to be the first time he would ever be faced with that…
— Julia Quinn
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What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.
— Henry Miller
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Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll…
— Michael Crichton
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When he faced me again, he looked ashamed of himself. "I have gravely underestimated you, Darren," he said. "I will not do so again. I…
— Darren Shan
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I turned and faced the Olympians. "We need a shroud," I announced, my voice cracking. "A shroud for the son of Hermes.
— Rick Riordan
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One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled…
— Holly Black
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The men gasped at Nicholas. "That's the most I've heard him say in three years." Sam said. He turned to the others. "You ever hear…
— Christine Feehan
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