Faces Quotes - Page 66

To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

Somebody said that it couldn't be done But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.

And I fell violently on my face.

Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.

I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.

When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.

I feel like there's a lot of rappers that could out-rap me and I wouldn't want to face any of them.

The fictioneer labors under the constraint of plausibility; his inventions must stay within the capacity of the audience to accept and believe. God, of course, working with facts, faces no limitation.

My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.

My face carries all of my memories. Why would I erase them?

Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.

Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately, he loved the theater and he loved actors.

Face up to those areas that are weak in your life and seek to make them strong.

Be aware of the high notes, Of the blissful faces and their soft messages, And listen for the silent message Of a highly decorated gift.

I face every project the same way - do it right and give 110%. 100% isn't good enough.

and how we are all preparing for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not come so grandly, so Biblically, but more subtly and intimately in the face of the one you know you have to love

It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces

The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope. Every time I see these feelings in someone else's face, it weighs me down.

Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.

That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me.

When they face desperation... human beings become animals.

Jesus is the human face on the kingdom of God. He makes it concretely accessible.

The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis--only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept them as the reality before which we must justify our existence. For this is the truth we must reach to live, that everything is and we just in it.

And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face.

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.