Faces Quotes - Page 52

What you can't run away from, you have to face

..while I was happy enough to pray to any god, knowing that they were simply different faces created by men, of one indivisible truth.

I wanted to believe anything so that I wouldn’t have to face the future alone. The problem with wanting is that it makes us weak.

With public speaking, practicing congruence is very helpful - allowing the words to be expressed with the face and body. It helps to think of simply "turning up the nonverbal volume."

Never do anything that you aren't prepared to face the true consequences of.

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces.

The true face of the unions is not now a man in a hard hat as much as it is a woman in a classroom or in cleaning smocks.

The only reality you can control is the one you're willing to face.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Let's face it, most pretty girls aren't funny.

Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face, When discontent sits heavy at my heart.

Rent is about a community celebrating life, in the face of death and AIDS, at the turn of the century.

The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship

Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

When the heart is once won to rest in God, to repose himself on him, he will assuredly satisfy it. He will never be as water that fails; nor hath he said at any time to the seed of Jacob, "Seek ye my face in vain." If Christ be chosen for the foundation of our supply, he will not fail us.

Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement.

Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing, and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.

Enlightened social engineering is required to face situations that demand global action now.

It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.

The worst of faces still is human.

We must not condemn to frustration those whose job it is to protect us by failing to provide them with the necessary resources to meet the threats they face.

In the 20s, you were a face. And that was enough. In the 30s, you also had to be a voice. And your voice had to match your face, if you can imagine that.

Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules.