Quotes About Face

Ah, horrible war, amazing medley of the glorious and the squalid, the pitiful and the sublime, if modern men of light and leading saw your face closer, simple folk would see it hardly ever.

Seeing his somber face light up, I shouted, "Come now, we're very wrong to corrupt such a man, forcing him to join us in the misery of laughter!"   Toil

My baptism was a slightly awkward affair. . . . The water trickled down my face and down my neck; though just a beakers worth, it had the refreshing effect of a monsoon rain.

What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.

Why this is hell, nor am I out of it:Think'st thou that I who saw the face of God,And tasted the eternal joys of Heaven,Am not tormented with ten thousand hells,In being deprived of everlasting bliss?

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

When he reached her, he touched a hand to her face. Smiled. " Important . That's one word. Everything . That's another. Loved ," he said, adding the most important word of all. "God, Darcy, you are so loved.

Bastards have pissed me off," Reed snarled, out of breath, as he backed into the open armory door. "They hit me in the face." Lang grabbed Reed's jaw, turned his face toward him. "It's just a scratch." It's just my fucking face ," Reed sputtered. "It needs to look good on a book jacket when I write my memoirs someday.

life will test us. For real, not a dress rehearsal. And on that day we will finally realise that we are all alone, forced to face ourselves, with no lies left to cling to.

Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

Stafford.' He backs the stranger into the light. When he sees his face, not

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.

What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression," she wondered, "that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?

Next time you'll remember not to drop your guard,' the knight says, observing the wounds on Oak's cheek. 'My vanity took the worst of the blow,' he says. 'Worried about your pretty face?' the knight asks. 'There is too little beauty in the world,' says the prince airily. 'But that is not my area of greatest conceit.

I hate you," I whisper before he can speak. He tilts my face to his. "Say it again," he says as the imps comb my hair and place the ugly, stinking crown on my head.

Perhaps I am foolish, but I am no fool. You like something about me," he says, mischief lighting his face, making its planes more familiar.

Butter-blond hair threaded with gold blew around his face.

I rub a hand over my face. By the fire, a spindly, insectile faerie stirs a big pot. "You want soup, mortal?" I shake my head. "You want to be soup?" It asks hopefully.

I don't suppose you have anything to drink around here?' Cardan asks. 'I don't imagine that whatever happens next is going to be particularly comfortable for me, and I would like to stay drunk in order to face it.' 'Do you really think I care if you're comfortable?' I demand.

She had the kind of thin bony body and hard face that speaks of addiction and the streets. There was a nearly healed cut over one eye with faint purplish bruising, and Troy tried to feel the sympathy she obviously deserved, but his heart was as hard and suspicious as an ex-girlfriend's.

While you look at the stars tonight I want you to reflect on two koans. The first one is this: Out of nowhere the mind comes forth." Masha paused. "And the second: Show me your original face, the one you had before your parents were born.

There was Kir, red hair combed back and That Expression on his sharp face. Even his freckles looked serious. I'd given up wondering how a freckle-faced teenager could look so much like a disapproving granny.