Faces Quotes

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Carson McCullers
“In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.”
Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Virginia Woolf
“Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?”
Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

“ONE BUT MANY

One God, many faces.
One family, many races.
One truth, many paths.
One heart, many complexions.
One light, many reflections.
One world, many imperfections.
ONE.
We are all one,
But many.”
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

A.A. Milne
“His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.”
A.A. Milne, Once on a Time

Enid Blyton
“I think people make their own faces, as they grow.”
Enid Blyton, The Naughtiest Girl Again

Criss Jami
“Old words are reborn with new faces.”
Criss Jami, Killosophy

Michael Bassey Johnson
“Nice words and nice appearance doesn't conclude that someone is nice, i believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Kingsley Amis
“... all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which really deserved a face, he had none to celebrate it with. As a kind of token, he made his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face.”
Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

Leah Remini
“By their actions, they will show you who they are.”
Leah Remini, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

C.S. Lewis
“I have said that she had no face; but that meant she had a thousand faces”
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
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Marianne Wiggins
“You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.”
Marianne Wiggins, The Shadow Catcher

Hope Mirrlees
“You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait - a portrait that, probably, when you or he die, will still be unfinished. And, though this is an absorbing pursuit, nevertheless, the painters are apt to end pessimists. For however handsome and merry may be the face, however rich may be the background, in the first rough sketch of each portrait, yet with every added stroke of the brush, with every tiny readjustment of the "values," with every modification of the chiaroscuro, the eyes looking out at you grow more disquieting. And, finally, it is your own face that you are staring at in terror, as in a mirror by candlelight, when all the house is still.”
Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

Dejan Stojanovic
“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.”
Dejan Stojanovic

Adriana Trigiani
“Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.”
Adriana Trigiani, Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers

Dejan Stojanovic
“Devil and God – two sides of the same face.”
Dejan Stojanovic

Ayn Rand
“Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their faces, by something in their faces.”
Ayn Rand

Charles Dickens
“Alas ! How few of Nature's faces are left alone to gladden us with their beauty ! The cares, and sorrows, and the hungerings, of the world, change them as they change hearts; and it is only when those passions sleep, and have lost their hold for ever, that the troubled clouds pass off, and leave Heaven's surface clear. It is a common thing for the countenances of the dead, even in that fixed and rigid state, to subside into the long-forgotten expression of sleeping infancy, and settle into the very look of early life; so calm, so peaceful, do they grow again, that those who knew them in their happy childhood, kneel by the coffin's side in awe, and see the Angel even upon earth.”
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
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Michael Bassey Johnson
“Spiritual love is when you see new faces as the oldest.”
michael bassey johnson

Kate Furnivall
“She always paid attention to fingers rather than faces because they told so much more. People remembered to guard their faces. They forgot their hands. Her own were small, though strong and supple from all the hours of piano playing, but what use was that now? For the first time she understood what real danger does to the human mind, as flat white fear froze the coils of her brain.”
Kate Furnivall, The Jewel of St. Petersburg

Jeffrey Eugenides
“Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band shell for the presentation of that long-running act, her face.”
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

“Faces always talk too much. One line and all their plans are revealed.”
Floriano Martins
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Dorothy L. Sayers
“Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face?”
Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison

Rick Riordan
“As we got closer to Montauk, she seemed to grow younger, years of worry and work disappearing from her face. Her eyes turned the color of the sea.”
Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

H. Beam Piper
“It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra.”
H. Beam Piper, Little Fuzzy

Rick Riordan
“Her face was pale, her eyes as sad as when she looked at the ocean.”
Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
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Nicholas Christopher
“They were different colors: the right one blue, the left green. And her face in the light of the candle on the table startled me at first, just as it had in the icy night air. After seeing it on the street, I was afraid I had only imagined it: a still, luminous face with a silvery sheen. Finely hewn, with a long, straight nose and a wide mouth, it was nearly identical to another face, which I had photographed years before. Not on a person, bu on the fragment of a frieze I found in some ruins near Verona, The frieze, which depicted a band of musicians, had once been shadowed beneath a cornice high on the temple of Mercury, god of magic. Belonging to one of the musicians, it was a riveting face - like a puzzle that could not be solved - which I had never found, or expected to find, on a living woman.”
Nicholas Christopher, Veronica

“My brothers’ faces haunt me. I hear their children, my nieces and nephews, asking me why I came home without their daddies. I think of their wives, imagine their questions. Our parents, forever seeing the faces of their lost sons when they look at me. They will want answers, demand to know how I survived. And what do I tell them? That I huddled like a baby inside my tent while their killer beckoned me forth for one last stand?”
Kevin Wallis, Beneath the Surface of Things

Jean Rhys
“—Está muy disgustado porque nunca le das un beso. La contradije:
—Pues no pone cara de disgustado.
—Es un grave error juzgar por la cara, en uno u otro sentido.”
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
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“My facial muscles were so tensed from the strain that I actually felt it was impossible to smile. Whit a shock I realized that the faces of my squad mates and everyone around me looked mask like and unfamiliar.”
E.B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

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