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Quotes About Face

his father lying on the bare floor in anguish. The King evidently had been struck down with some great sorrow. His face
~ V?lm?ki
Life is too short to suffer anybody's meanness, which is what you can learn eating shrimp with store-bought coleslaw, if you look it straight in the face.
~ Unknown
The challenge for human beings is not how to avoid suffering, but how to face the pain that is inherent in our lives, and how not to create more suffering by our desperate attempt to avoid pain. Addiction is, perhaps, the most desperate measure we employ to escape suffering.
~ Unknown
Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.
~ Victor Hugo
Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.
~ Homer
People strive hardest to save face, when the beauty they value is solely extrinsic.
~ Justin K. McFarlane Beau
You can always enhance your natural beauty you learn what works for your face because crazy make-up doesn't really suit anyone.
~ Caroline Winberg
I understand business and understand the ugly face of baseball, which is the business part of baseball.
~ Pedro Martinez
The press spread fears about the effects of prolonged cycling. Overenthusiastic cyclists might develop 'bicycle hump' by leaning too long over the handlebars; acute cases of 'bicycle foot' and even 'bicycle face' were reported
~ Peter Ackroyd
And then he raised the welder to his face and flicked the switch.
~ Peter David
His projected face bony and intense, Garth peered out of his booth like an aroused turtle.
~ Philip K. Dick
Asriel was a tall man with powerful shoulders, a fierce dark face, and eyes that seemed to flash and glitter with savage laughter. It was a face to be dominated by, or to fight: never a face to patronize or pity. All his movements were large and perfectly balanced, like those of a wild animal, and when he appeared in a room like this, he seemed a wild animal held in a cage too small for it.
~ Philip Pullman
Lord Asriel was a tall man with powerful shoulders, a fierce dark face, and eyes that seemed to flash and glitter with savage laughter. It was a face to be dominated by, or to fight: never a face to patronize or pity. All his movements were large and perfectly balanced, like those of a wild animal, and when he appeared in a room like this, he seemed a wild animal held in a cage too small for it.
~ Philip Pullman
Remember, always moisturize your neck. Someday it may be your face.
~ Unknown
That day. Even though my back is turned, I can see what's going on. The sound of their taunting- I know what that looks like. Words like freak and loser- I know what kind of face says them. Our teacher is ignoring it; he does not have the strength to deal with it. Or maybe he agrees with what's being said. He agrees by talking math as the notebook is pulled out of Anton's hand. Even though he sees what's going on, his back is turned.
~ David Levithan
Let's go into the woods and take some pictures, you said. I found this old camera. Let go! you screamed. Let go of me! You have to let go, the counselor told me. Let go of what you're holding inside. I can touch the picture but it's not your face. I can touch the screen but it's not your face. Let go.
~ David Levithan
It was cool to see reading become such a transparent act–it was as if her face had a different expression for each punctuation mark, and when there was dialogue you could see her actually listening to it in her head.
~ David Levithan
These naive arguments fly in the face of the scientific evidence.
~ David M. Buss
What we saw in Richard Nixon's face was the panic in his soul. – Richard Goodwin
~ David Pietrusza
Then the flight attendants, garbage bags in hand, glided down the aisle, looking each one of us square in the face and whispering, without discrimination, "Your trash. You're trash. Your family's trash.
~ David Sedaris
If you were to throw a lipoma to a dog, he'd swallow it in a single bite, then get that very particular look on his face that translates to Fuck. Was that a tumor? There'd be something to see. Turtles, on the other hand, never change expression and live with fewer regrets
~ David Sedaris
Later that evening, I found the sisters stretched out like cats in front of the woodstove. "It used to be that whenever I passed a mirror, I'd look at my face," Gretchen said, blowing out a mouthful of cigarette smoke. "Now I just check to see if my nipples line up.
~ David Sedaris
Maybe it was this: The name of a person marked for murder is just a name, but the face makes real the cost of violence, for if we have the nerve to look, we can see in any face our own vulnerability.
~ Dean Koontz
The sky was black and spitting rain on my smiling face.
~ Yann Martel