Faces Quotes - Page 71

If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question: what is a woman?

Some experts advise what to do in accordance with the past, but the past flew away, and we have to reorient ourselves in the face of new dangers.

I have a face I cannot show, I make the rules up as I go.

What I'm seeing is a generation that says consistently, 'I would rather text than make a telephone call.' Why? It's less risky. I can just get the information out there. I don't have to get all involved; it's more efficient. I would rather text than see somebody face to face.

Last time I looked at a [pay]check, I said to myself, 'Who the hell is FICA? And when I meet him, I'm going to punch him in the face. Oh my God, FICA is killing me.'

A happy heart comes first, then the happy face.

You should see my baby pictures. My cheeks hung off my face like water balloons. You can imagine how often I was teased.

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

You're weird," Nick grumbled, but he turned his face back to critically examine the new hand. "You're weird," Jamie returned. "As soon as this whole magical war is over, I'm going to make us some friendship bracelets, and we will wear them everywhere because we are best friends." "Drop dead," said Nick, and Jamie looked serenely pleased.

It is myself I have never met whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind

I'd prefer it if the coach said certain things to me face to face.

One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.

When you're face to face with someone less worthy, tell them.

boredom has a tendency to bring out the worst in people's faces.

Do people who wave at trains Wave at the driver, or at the train itself? Or, do people who wave at trains Wave at the passengers? Those hurtling strangers, The unidentifiable flying faces?

The wisest among us - the genuine leaders - smile in the face of adversity.

Royalty puts a human face on the operations of government.

Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?

It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?

Better to face the bear than run from it.

You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.

No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.

"What's going on?" he asked, looking from face to face. "I was having a good dream." "I need you," said Lisa. "I hear that from women a lot."

He who knows what it is to enjoy God will dread His loss; he who has seen His face will fear to see His back.

The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.