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Faces Quotes by Alain de Botton
- If optimism is important, it's because many outcomes are determined by how much of it we bring to the task. It is an important ingredient…
- Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and…
- We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff…
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- The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull. — Kevyn Aucoin
- One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships… — J. J. Abrams
- If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times. — Lance Armstrong
- I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the… — Neil Armstrong
- I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some… — Arthur Ashe
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi
- The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
- Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people… — Margaret Atwood
- Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
- My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. — Diane Ackerman