Facing Quotes

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Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Do you miss Susie?" Because it was dark, because Ruth was facing away from her,because Ruth was almost a stranger, Lindsey said what she felt.… — Alice Sebold
I'm so alive. As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afternoon breeze blows down from the hills behind. As… — Dave Pelzer
The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat. — Edith Hamilton
Phillip is the Paul McCartney of our family: better-looking than the rest of us, always facing a different direction in pictures, and occasionally rumored to… — Jonathan Tropper
I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future. — Ronald Reagan
Maybe that's what you got when you stood over your grief, facing it finally. A sense of its depths, its area, the distance across, and… — Sarah Dessen
I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my… — Sylvia Plath
Fireheart dashed to the warrior's side. Cloudtail was standing stiff-legged, every hair in his pelt on end as if he were facing an enemy. His… — Erin Hunter
Foul!" yelled Jamie, who seemed extremely happy not to be the one facing a blade. "Distracting technique! Put your shirt back on right now. — Sarah Rees Brennan
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow… — E. M. Forster
But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall… — Khalil Gibran
Now, I'm not very vain. If I'd ever been, making my living covered in various grease and dirt mixtures would have cured me quickly. Still,… — Patricia Briggs
If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed. — Joss Whedon
Sometimes we need a personal crisis to reinforce in our minds what we really value and cherish. The scriptures are filled with examples of people… — M. Russell Ballard
I love her bare legs from a distance. When she's standing by a pool. When she's facing the water, thinking. Her legs are white as… — Jaclyn Moriarty
... I'm the fortieth-ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what! What if someday she lets me kiss each one of her freckles… — Gary Shteyngart
Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream… — Robin Hobb
Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatusâ€”the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the… — Simone Weil
It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something… — Truman Capote

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