Human Faces Quotes - Page 2

• Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Loneliness, Vision, Faces

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

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• While we too always seek other signs, other wonders, we do not realize that he is the real sign, God made flesh; he is the greatest miracle of the universe: all the love of God hidden in a human heart, in a human face.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Real, Heart, Miracle

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• Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Depth, Demand

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• The human face is as strange to me as a countenance, which, the more one looks at it, the more it closes itself off and escapes by the steps of unknown stairways.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Looks, Faces, Steps

  Alberto Giacometti, Valerie J. Fletcher (1998). “Alberto Giacometti”

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• I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.

  Imre Kertész

  Book, Writing, People

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• Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face.

  Carl Theodor Dreyer

  World, Faces, Humans

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• Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Men, Sky

  "To Catch the Instant", Time Magazine, April 7, 1961.

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• True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Expression, Opposites, Tablets

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• The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Light, Soul, Feelings

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.91

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• A personal story of the horrors that Poles lived through during World War II. When God Looked the Other Way, above all else, explains why there is still a Poland. . . . One of the most remarkable World War II sagas I have ever read. It is history with a human face.

  Arnold Beichman

  War, Way, Faces

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• Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

  John Milton

  Summer, Sweet, Book

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 37

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• The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never wholly succeeds in overtaking the reality.

  John Edgar Park

  Reality, Light, Grace

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• What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline, complex, circular, symmetrical. However, I do not absolutely deny the value of dramatic literature. Only, I should like the actors to be mounted on high pattens, to wear masks more expressive than the human face, and to speak through megaphones.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Childhood, Theatre

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

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• There is no sight so ugly as the human face in anger.

  Louise Fitzhugh

  Anger, Sight, Ugly

  Louise Fitzhugh (2009). “The Long Secret”, p.13, Yearling

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• Where we find hate and darkness, may we bring love and hope, in order to give a more human face to society.

  Pope Francis

  Hate, Order, Giving

  Pope Francis @Pontifex, twitter.com. September 30, 2013.

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• Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every detail is expressive.

  Henri Matisse

  Passion, Expression, Faces

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• Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.

  Sue Grafton

  Play, Feelings, Age

  Sue Grafton (1992). “"I" is for Innocent”, p.77, Macmillan

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• My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.

  Paul Klee

  Real, Writing, Heart

  Paul Klee (2015). “Paul Klee”, p.18, Parkstone International

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• We have set out on a quest for true humanity, and somewhere on the distant horizon we can see the glittering prize. Let us march forth with courage and determination, drawing strength from our common plight and our brotherhood [and sisterhood]. In time we shall be in a position to bestow upon South Africa the greatest gift possible--a more human face

  Steven Biko

  Determination, Sisterhood, Drawing

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• We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

  Kofi Annan

  Economic Globalization, Faces, Driven

  Kofi A. Annan (2015). “We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century”, p.68, Routledge

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• She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Betrayal, Kindness

  Dean Koontz (2001). “Dark Rivers of the Heart/Intensity/Sole Survivor: Three Complete Novels by Dean Koontz”

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• There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book. Do not abandon me.

  Diane Setterfield

  Book, Heart, Body

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.

  Agatha Christie

  Faces, Mask, Humans

  Agatha Christie (1962). “Make Mine Murder: Including: Appointment with Death, Peril at the End House [and] Sad Cypress”

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