Faces Quotes

• When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strong Women, Courage, Fear

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• I enjoy real people, down-to-earth people who are true to themselves and honest to your face - good or bad.

  Christina Aguilera

  Real, People, Earth

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• Don't be afraid to face the facts, and never lose your ability to ask the questions: Why? and How?

  Immanuel Velikovsky

  Facts, Ability, Asks

  Immanuel Velikovsky (1977). “Earth in Upheaval”, New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks

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• My definition of beauty is without rules. It can be the face of a beautiful 90-year-old woman that is full of stories and emotion. Beauty is what somebody's eyes communicate.

  Penelope Cruz

  Beautiful, Eye, Years

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• We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become perfect, when there will be no disease, nor death, nor unhappiness, nor wickedness. That is a very good idea, a very good motive power to inspire and uplift the ignorant. But if we think for a moment, we shall find on the very face of it that it cannot be so. How can it be, seeing that good and evil are the obverse and reverse of the same coin? How can you have good without evil at the same time?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Uplifting, Country, Believe

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  I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

  Lauren Bacall

  Love, Beauty, Memorable

  Quoted in Daily Telegraph (London), 2 Mar. 1988

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• Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Beauty

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Funny, Witty, Powerful

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• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

  Thomas Browne

  Life, Character, Soul

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.102

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  Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  Walt Whitman, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Walt Whitman Quotes... Vol. 20: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Walt Whitman”

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• Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Eye, Effort, Wicked

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.

  Judy Blume

  Inspirational, Fear, Adventure

  FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Dec 26, 2012

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• God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Fake People, Being Yourself

  William Shakespeare, Nick De Somogyi (2001). “Hamlet: The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke : the First Folio of 1623 and a Parallel Modern Edition”, p.106, Nick Hern Books

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• The eyes those silent tongues of love.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Love, Eye, Tongue

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1771). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.92

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• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love?' These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will be many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.

  Henri Nouwen

  Letting Go, Real, Healing

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• Masks are what they seem to be; not so the faces beneath them.

  Mason Cooley

  Mask, Seems

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• People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fall, People, Aging

  Bertolt Brecht (2015). “Brecht Collected Plays: 1: Baal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of Cities; Life of Edward II of England; & 5 One Act Plays”, p.167, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Inspirational, Years, Numbers

  "Cynthia Ozick, The Art of Fiction No. 95". Interview with Tom Teicholz, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1987.

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• If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Credit, Letters

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 250-52, What Will He Do With It? (1858), Book II. Title of Ch, XI., 1922.

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• A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Happiness, Foundation

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.173

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• F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

  Zig Ziglar

  Running, Fear, Forget Everything

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• A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Interesting, Mouths

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. 2, Ch. 29, § 377, 2007.

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• Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

  Gail Buckley

  Family, Past, Mirrors

  "Books of the Times" by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, www.nytimes.com. 1986.

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