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Faces Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish…
- After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking…
- Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river…
- Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
- Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must…
- Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's destiny…
- I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.
- Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and…
- No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
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