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Quotes About Face

I looked into his sandy brown eyes, at one with the hair. At the business- like outward presentation of the man who daily printed sneers, innuendo, distrust and spite and spoke without showing a trace of them. 'Off the record,' I said,'bash his face in'.
~ Dick Francis
every shadow of a thought or doubt.. crossed his face with the clarity of cloud shadows racing across the fields.
~ Dirk Bogarde
Nora had the face of all people who love the people – a face that would be evil when she found out that to love without criticism is to be betrayed.
~ Djuna Barnes
But the past is a dogged pursuer, a pack of wolves relentlessly running you down. Maybe it's better to turn and face it.
~ Don Winslow
He knelt in the grass and gently pulled off the helmet. A familiar face smiled up at him. Charlie couldn't speak. His astonishment, his joy was too great. He could feel the others gathering behind him, murmuring, 'It can't be!' 'Is it, really?' 'Why didn't we know?
~ Jenny Nimmo
It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface.
~ Jenny Valentine
I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes
~ Jeremy Aldana
If I may be permitted to liken America to the human body, then I think it is fair to say that California is its face, New York is its brain and Texas is its heart. If you wanna know what makes America tick, get your ten-gallon hat on, and get yourself to Texas.
~ Jeremy Clarkson
The only reality you can control is the one you're willing to face.
~ Jericho Barrons (Fever Series)
people," he said, "try to put on a poker face when they are in a panic and when they try to put on a poker face they look sulky.
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
When she cried her whole face went to pieces.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I sleep on my face, and then it does not frighten anybody in the morning.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Harry looked at him and you could see the murder come in his face. ... Harry didn't say anything, but you could see the killing go out of his face and his eyes came open natural again.
~ Ernest Hemingway
He had a face that reminded me of a frog, not a bullfrog but just any frog, and Paris was too big a puddle for him.
~ Ernest Hemingway
She should have. All woman should see it. It's a face that ought to be thrown on every screen in the country. Every woman ought to be given a copy of this face as she leaves the altar. Mothers should tell their daughters about this face. My son" – he pointed the razor at me – "go west with this face and grow up with the country.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I have never seen a man who lost the blood from his face so fast, and I wondered where it went
~ Ernest Hemingway
She had a gently modelled face and her eyes and her smile lighted up at decisions as though they were rich presents.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Sylvia had a lively, sharply sculptured face, brown eyes that were as alive as a small animal's and as gay as a young girl's, and wavy brown hair that was brushed back from her fine forehead and cut thick below her ears and at the line of the collar of the brown velvet jacket she wore. She had pretty legs and she was kind, cheerful and interested, and loved to make jokes and gossip. No one that I ever knew was nicer to me.
~ Ernest Hemingway
We still went under the system, then, that praise to the face was open disgrace.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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~ Ernest Hemingway
tried to break his face down and describe it but i could only get the eyes. under the black hat, when i had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
~ Ernest Hemlingway Hemlinway
I've observed an interesting connection between my patients' responses to betrayal and the type of justice they are likely to seek. Some mourn the loss of the connection. "I'm hurt because I lost you." Others mourn the loss of face. "I can't believe you made such an idiot of me." One is a relational injury; the second, a narcissistic one. Wounded hearts; wounded pride.
~ Esther Perel
What a hideous smile I have, Geralt thought, reaching for his sword. What a hideous face I have. And how hideously I squint. So that is what I look like? Damn.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery only a connoisseur could detect.
~ Angela Carter