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Quotes About Face

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.
~ Atul Gawande
Any hint of kindness had gone from his face. It was only hateful now, hard and hateful, and I wanted
~ Aubrey Rose
It's time to go and face them. To prepare them, as we say in the trade, a proper reception. Welcome to my island, assholes.
~ Austin Grossman
that there is no drug as powerful as hope, that the slightest sign of pessimism in the face or words of a doctor can cost his patient his life.
~ Axel Munthe
I have 'Very Rare' tatted on my face.
~ Ski Mask the Slump God
You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.
~ Daisy Ashford
The great thing about ageing is that your eyesight deteriorates at the same rate as your face. So I can't see how bad things are getting.
~ Sue Perkins
With my physicality and my face, I don't think I could pull off a completely righteous guy. There's something devious about my eyes. I like characters with flaws and to see how they overcome those flaws. I want to play real people, and they're flawed, not perfect.
~ Emraan Hashmi
The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.
~ Tony Campolo
Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego to get in the way. It's what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general.
~ John Ortberg
I am pretty bad at doing my makeup myself, so these days, I am learning from a makeup artist. I treat my face as a sketchbook and am gradually trying things that I learned from the artist.
~ Nayeon
I've been to many Games and Championships and the mascot plays a special part. It brings a certain energy to the event, to the brand and identity of the Games. Children gravitate towards it and it almost becomes the face of the Games if you like.
~ Denise Lewis
I just deal with what's at hand.
~ Cain Velasquez
That in the face of smarter women it was best to beat a continuous retreat, to slash and burn one's own personal convictions before their sure-footed advance.
~ Gary Shteyngart
with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.
~ Gaston Leroux
It had become the face of a scholar of the worst kind, of the sort of man who has studied many things hidden from common men and grown wise and corrupt. He
~ Gene Wolfe
She sighed, and all the gladness went out of her face, as the sunlight leaves the stone where a beggar seeks to warm himself.
~ Gene Wolfe
Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and colour with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.
~ George Eliot
while the expression on her pale face and in her burning eyes was what would have suited a woman enduring a wrong which she might not resent, but would probably revenge.
~ George Eliot
In the midst of life we are in death" — how the present moment is all we can call our own for works of mercy, of righteous dealing, and of family tenderness. All very old truths — but what we thought the oldest truth becomes the most startling to us in the week when we have looked on the dead face of one who has made a part of our own lives. For
~ George Eliot
I never wanted to do film. I don't have the right face, and I don't like stardom. I like the fact that I have this wonderful thing that gives you status, but I'm most interested in doing decent work.
~ Tim Pigott-Smith
I love the make-up trailer. It's a great way to start the day, drinking coffee and singing along to Elvis with the make-up artists. They work wonders on a very sleepy face.
~ Emily Berrington
I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.
~ Hillary Clinton
My intention is to show the real face of Islam. I see it as a threat.
~ Geert Wilders