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Quotes About Faces

Well I know the secret places, And the nests in hedge and tree; At what doors are friendly faces, In what hearts are thoughts of me.
~ Unknown
Sanya told you about his beliefs.' I felt the corners of my mouth start to twinge as another smile threatened. 'Yeah.' Shiro let out a pleased snort. 'Sanya is a good man.' 'I just don't get why he'd be recruited as a Knight of the Cross.' Shiro looked at me over the glasses, chewing. After a while, he sad, 'Man sees faces. Sees skin. Flags. Membership lists. Files.' He took another large bite, ate it, and said, 'God sees hearts.
~ Jim Butcher
She handed me one of the finished mendiants . A fat black cherry made for the nose; a candied lemon slice for the mouth. She had made all her chocolates into little faces. Features added in gold leaf; almonds, raisins, poppy seeds. All of the chocolates different, all of them marked with her signature: Love me. Feed me. Free me - And all of the chocolates were smiling.
~ Joanne Harris
Respect the emotion in someones heart rather than the expression on someones faces. Because expression is just formality but emotions are reality.
~ Unknown
I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Magi Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depths of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain-beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering side by side, And all their eyes still fixed, hoping to find once more, Being by Calvary's turbulence unsatisfied, The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.
~ W.B. Yeats
I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses.
~ W.B. Yeats
They aren't capable of doing this... look their thoughts, look how they run, look their faces... So far this tells everything about them, ...(Salem's Lot)
~ Deyth Banger
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.
~ George Eliot
Flying across the faces of the buildings, the shadows resemble dragons, as if Texas has gone Tolkien.
~ Dean Koontz
and the angels were descending out of a brilliant blue summer, their huge faces streaked with light and full of pity. The sight of them cut through my heart and down the knuckles of my spine.
~ Denis Johnson
She was guilty, after all, of success, a success that stemmed from birthright and privilege. She took hope for granted, saw opportunity as her due, and had never really had to worry about vanishing into a sea of unseen faces and unseen voices.
~ Dennis Lehane
Danny could see it in their faces when they shook Steve's hand—they'd have preferred him dead. Death allowed for the illusion of heroism. The maimed turned that illusion into an uncomfortable odor.
~ Dennis Lehane
No, lady. But I do read faces, and Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â "And mine's an open book. I know," I said, resigned.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Grey took three steps back and watched as two little boys rushed out of the crowd, their faces bloated with fright, and ran off up the street.
~ Diana Gabaldon
War seldom looks on the faces of its dead
~ Diana Gabaldon
I really think this is why people have faces, to hide their souls. Has to be, or every street… would be a passage through hell.
~ Unknown
I shall remember this moment: the silence, the twilight, the bowl of strawberries, the bowl of milk. Your faces in the evening light.[...] I shall carry this memory carefully in my hands as if it were a bowl brimful of fresh milk. It will be a sign to me, and a great sufficiency.
~ Ingmar Bergman
Pensé: —Uno llega a un momento de la vida en que de la gente que ha conocido son mas los muertos que los vivos. Y la mente se niega a aceptar otras fisonomías, otras expresiones: en todas las caras nuevas que encuentra, imprime los viejos calcos, para cada una encuentra la máscara que más se adapta.
~ Italo Calvino
Anti-Semitism is the hatred that never dies. Violence that begins with the Jews never ends with them. All of this is true. What's also true is that anti-Semitism is the oldest hatred in the world because individual people have sustained it in every generation. It cannot be defeated until we look these people and their ideologies in the face.
~ Bari Weiss
Remember the movie 'The Matrix,' where virtual information popped up to help inform physical day-to-day reality? Such things won't always be the stuff of Hollywood. If the Internet is accessible via contact lenses, biographies will appear next to the faces of the people we talk to, and we will see subtitles if they speak a foreign language.
~ Michio Kaku
Bérénice avait deux visages, cette nuit et ce jour.
~ Louis Aragon
Bloodlust is like a natural disaster; it has to run its course. I have seen their faces; they are faces out of nightmares—most ordinary—so ordinary that you can't believe the brains behind them capable of genocide.
~ Unknown
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
~ John Bradshaw