face quotes

• Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past. (Harry Truman) [president/face/roots/past]
• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt) [face/dust/blood/enthusiasm]
• Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? (Pablo Picasso) [human/face]
• He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star. (William Blake) [face/light]
• This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. (Ludwig van Beethoven) [face]
• In an experience of women that extends over many nations and three separate continents, I have never looked upon a face which gave a clearer promise of a refined and sensitive nature. (Arthur Conan Doyle) [experience/women/face/nature]
• A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!. (Henry Fielding) [face/letter/nature/nature]
• False face must hide what the false heart doth know. (William Shakespeare) [face]
• Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it. (Sophia Loren) [sex/face/sex/love]
• As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him. ( Akhenaton) [face/nature/cities/rage]
• The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. (Fred Astaire) [face/etiquette]
• I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. (Lauren Bacall) [think/life/face]
• You never find yourself until you face the truth. (Pearl Bailey) [find/face/truth]
• When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself. (James Baldwin) [order/face]
• For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros. (Ethel Barrymore) [face/memory]
• The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event. (Roland Barthes) [face]
• I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. (Georges Bataille) [truth/face]
• Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. (Jean Baudrillard) [time/face]
• A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth -- either epileptic or dead. (Jean Baudrillard) [society/face]
• He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star. (William Blake) [face/light]
• A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly. (Emily Bronte) [willpower/face/willpower/ugly]
• A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face. (Billie Burke) [past/mind/face]
• Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny. (Albert Camus) [culture/men/face]
• Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face. (Albert Camus) [age/face]
• When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter. (Albert Camus) [happiness/face/light/night]
• At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. (Albert Camus) [feeling/strike/face]
• No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment. (Thomas Carlyle) [thing/face/quality/art]
• I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country. (Thomas Carlyle) [face/eyes/look]
• He had a face like a blessing. (Miguel De Cervantes) [face]
• A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futility. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [face/activity/soul & body]
• It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all. (Joseph Conrad) [human/face/pain/source]

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