Faces Quotes - Page 15

• It is important to remember that value investing is not a perfect science. It is an, with an ongoing need for judgment, refinement, patience, and reflection. It requires endless curiosity, the relentless pursuit of additional information, the raising of questions, and the search for answers. It necessitates dealing with imperfect information - knowing you will never know everything and that that must not prevent you from acting. It requires a precarious balance between conviction, steadfastness in the face of adversity, and doubt - keeping in mind the possibility that you could be wrong.

  Seth Klarman

  Adversity, Reflection, Knowing

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• Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.

  Charles Bukowski

  Four, Firsts, Empowered

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• I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here's a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.

  Billy Joel

  People, Rolling, Stones

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• I feel prettier with a naked face and ChapStick. But a good haircut makes a huge difference.

  Lena Dunham

  Differences, Naked, Chapstick

  "Lena Dunham's Glamour April Issue Cover-Shoot", www.glamour.com. April 2014.

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• I know a lot of artists say, `If you want your song on my record, I get 50 per cent' I'd like to kick them in the face.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Song, Artist, Records

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• I don't know that I'm 'hangdog'. That suggests someone skulking around, unengaged. I'm not. I'm 'engaged', believe me. I have just got a slightly sad face.

  Stephen Rea

  Believe, Sad Face, Knows

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• If you were a child and every time your relatives had a few drinks, they'd be running after you with scary faces and big hands to pull you back to sing Don't Cry For Me Argentina, you wouldn't like singing either.

  Roisin Murphy

  Running, Children, Hands

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• Death tripped down the corridor, changing step, struck out here and there, danced pirouettes; often I felt his breath on my face when he was miles away; often I fell asleep and dreamed while he stood leaning over my bed.

  Arthur Koestler

  Bed, Here And There, Pirouettes

  Arthur Koestler (2011). “Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War”, p.202, University of Chicago Press

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• In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the agnostic faith, which if a man keep whole and undefiled, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in store for him.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, May, Matter

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.272, University of Georgia Press

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• I often hear from new graduates that it's better to wait until you have more experience.... But I'm a big believer in the power of inexperience.... The world needs you before you stop asking naive questions and while you have the time to understand the true nature of the complex problems we face and take them on.

  Wendy Kopp

  Waiting, Inexperience, Needs

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• The secret to responsible trust is acceptance. Acceptance is taking from God's hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in trust and thanksgiving, knowing that the confinement of the hedge we're in is good and for His glory. Even though what we're enduring may be painful, it's good simply because God Himself has allowed it.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Acceptance, Hands, Knowing

  Charles R. Swindoll (2012). “Perfect Trust”, p.18, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Beast, Familiar, Keep Going

  Charles R. Swindoll (2012). “Perfect Trust”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Moses warned them [Israelites] that the leading spiritual danger they would face on entering the [promise] land would be forgetting the Lord. What adversity would not do, prosperity and satisfaction could. They were to be on their guard against spiritual lethargy.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Adversity, Land

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• God's loving discipline brings us face-to-face with our pride.

  Max Anders

  Pride, Discipline, Face To Face

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• Rejoicing is the essence of genuine worship. A sad face (apart from remorse for sin or regret concerning the pain of others) is an affront to a gracious and generous God.

  Max Anders

  Pain, Regret, Essence

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• Some believers tend to forget God's persistent faithfulness in the face of the spectacular and showy.

  Max Anders

  Forget, Faithfulness, Persistent

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• Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.

  Garrison Keillor

  Reality, Approval Rating, Nations

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• Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.

  Charles Colson

  Band, Oppression, Wilberforce

  Charles W. Colson (2010). “God and Government: An Insider's View on the Boundaries between Faith and Politics”, p.113, Harper Collins

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• We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christ, Mask, Righteousness

  Twitter post from Feb 12, 2016

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• The question is not whether or not you will face trials. The question is, how will you respond when you do?

  Trip Lee

  Trials

  Trip Lee (2015). “Rise: Get Up and Live in God's Great Story”, p.150, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When we behold the face of God, all memories of pain and suffering will vanish. Our souls shall be totally healed.

  R. C. Sproul

  Pain, Memories, Soul

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• If you do not receive Christ as the Lamb who saves and delivers, you will face Him as the Lion who stalks and devours.

  Steven J Lawson

  Lambs, Lions, Christ

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• As long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don't have to face my own.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Long, Faults, My Own

  Twitter post from Nov 25, 2014

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• The capitalist system has lifted mankind out of mass poverty. It is this system that in the last century, in the last generation, even in the last decade, has acceleratively been changing the face of the world, and has provided the masses of mankind with amenities that even kings did not possess or imagine a few generations ago.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Kings, Lasts, Poverty

  Henry Hazlitt (1996). “The Conquest of Poverty”

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• This is something the Democrats have talked about, and a goal we share, getting everyone insured, and solving the issue in a Republican way, which is applying a personal responsibility principle (individual mandate), reforming the market (more strictly regulating the insurance companies), and allowing people to buy private health care insurance that they can take with them from job to job that's entirely affordable. So it's a Republican way of solving a problem that we face as a nation.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Responsibility, Issues

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