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Faces Quotes by George Orwell
- The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation…
- A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through…
- When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement…
- But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.
- After 40, a man is responsible for his face.
- It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing…
- When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture…
- If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
- At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
- Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are…
- In the face of pain there are no heroes.
- There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston—…
- He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate…
- Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face…
- He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
- We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of…
- He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache.…
- When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.He becomes a sort of hollow,posing dummy,the conventional figure of a sahib.For…
- Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
- The crowds in the big towns, with their mild, knobby faces, their bad teeth and gentle manners solid breakfasts and gloomy Sundays, smoky towns and…
More Faces Quotes
- 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