Cheeks Quotes - Page 27

• They call him the Streak, he likes to turn the other cheek. He's always making the news, wearing just his tennis shoes.

  Ray Stevens

  Shoes, Social Taboos, Tennis

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• I wasn't used to living crowded cheek by jowl with numbers of other people, as was customary here. People ate, slept, and frequently copulated, crammed into tiny, stifling cottages, lit and warmed by smoky peat fires. The only thing they didn't do together was bathe - largely because they didn't bathe.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Fire, Numbers, People

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1214, Dell

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• The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and following the ignorant Negro preachers, we have thought that it was godlike to turn the other cheek to the brute that was brutalizing us.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White, America

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like mercury down her cheeks.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Stars, Moon, Light

  Jonathan Maberry (2010). “Rot & Ruin”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• Addie, please." More tears dripped down her cheeks. "Don't be so hard." "Oh, please," I muttered...and that was as far as I got. 'You broke my heart' were the words that had risen to my mouth, but I couldn't say them. That was what you said to a boyfriend, a lover, not your best friend. She'd laugh. And I'd had enough of being laughed at. I'd worked hard to get to a place where it didn't happen anymore, where I didn't move through life like a walking target, where it was just me and my paints and brushes and my big empty bed every night. "You weren't a good friend," I said instead.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Moving, Heart, Good Friend

  Jennifer Weiner (2010). “Best Friends Forever: A Novel”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• Jane was wearing a charcoal shift dress. The black dipped into a love V accented with a large black chiffon bow. A layer of delicate black lace peeked out from the bottom of her dress. Her long blond hair was pulled back tightly into a straight ironed ponytail. Her makeup was simple: coral blush on her cheeks and gunmetal shadow brushed under her blue eyes.

  Lauren Conrad

  Eye, Makeup, Simple

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• Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor of unfolding leaves.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Spring, Air, Odor

  Gene Stratton-Porter (1915). “The Song of the Cardinal”

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• When we were all getting ready to leave, I walked up to my grandfather and gave him a hug and kiss on the cheek. He wiped my lip print off with his palm and gave me a look. He doesn't like the boys in the family to touch him. But I'm very glad that I did it anyway in case he dies. I never got to do that with my Aunt Helen.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Kissing, Aunt, Boys

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• A tear that runs down a believer's cheek is more beneficial than a thousand raindrops on the earth

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Running, Religious, Islamic

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• Those type of whites who are always going to jail with Negroes are the ones who tell Negroes to be loving and be kind and be patient and be nonviolent and turn the other cheek.

  Malcolm X

  Jail, Be Kind, Patient

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.

  David Coverdale

  Song, Tongue, Tongue In Cheek

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• When I'm looking for a leader who's going to fight ISIS and keep America secure, I don't want some meek and mild leader or somebody who's going to turn the other cheek.

  Robert Jeffress

  Fighting, Isis, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Jesus will press his thumb against the cheek of humanity and wipe away all tears.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Humanity, Tears

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'

  Dorothy Day

  Thinking, Mind, Turns

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• With my tongue in one cheek only, I'd suggest that were our palaeolithic ancestors to discover the peer-review dredger, we would be still sitting in caves.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Would Be, Peers, Sitting

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Enemy, Faces

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• I don't trust any white man who teaches Negroes to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent, which means to be defenseless in the face of a very brutal, criminal enemy. No. That's my yardstick for measuring whites.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Men, White Man

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• Even though people about us choose the path of hate and violence and warfare and greed and prejudice, we who are Christ's body must throw off these poisons and let love permeate and cleanse every tissue and cell. Nor are we to allow ourselves to become easily discouraged when love is not always obviously successful or pleasant. Love never quits, even when an enemy has hit you on the right cheek and you have turned the other, and he's also hit that.

  Clarence Jordan

  Love, Jesus, Hate

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• I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.

  Dane Cook

  Yelling, People, Feelings

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• . . some moment happens in your life that you say yes right up to the roots of your hair, that makes it worth having been born just to have happen. laughing with somebody till the tears run down your cheeks. waking up to the first snow. being in bed with somebody you love... whether you thank god for such a moment or thank your lucky stars, it is a moment that is trying to open up your whole life. If you turn your back on such a moment and hurry along to business as usual, it may lose you the ball game. if you throw your arms around such a moment and hug it like crazy, it may save your soul.

  Frederick Buechner

  Running, Stars, Crazy

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• As any man, I, of course, have certain preferences. Being a Scot by birth, I'm inclined to favor those with a well-scrubbed look and a hint of color in their cheeks-put there by an early walk in the chill air rather than by rouge. The smell of soap on a woman's skin or the hint of shampoo in her hair is perfume enough for me . . . Humor is important. The most beautiful woman in the world is a bore without that.

  David Niven

  Beautiful, Men, Color

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• I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.

  Carlos Mencia

  Hurt, Laughter, Cancer

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• I definitely am drawn to deeper reds and wine colors for lips and even cheeks during the holiday.

  Christina Hendricks

  Wine, Holiday, Color

  "Christina Hendricks on Life After 'Mad Men', Beauty Must-Haves, and Her New Femme Fatale Role". Interview with Lauren Valenti, www.marieclaire.com. December 21, 2015.

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• Turning the other cheek isn't submissive. It's defiant.

  Roy H. Williams

  Submissive, Turn The Other Cheek

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