Quotes on Faces

An infant prodigy of nine is shoved upon the stage in white. She starts off in a dismal whine about a dark and stormy night, a burglar, whose heart is true, despite his wicked-looking face, who puts the little child in doom, to save her mamma's jewel case. This may bring tears to every eye; it does not set my heart on fire. I'd like to stand serenely by and watch that horrid child expire.

I don't have an issue with what you do in the church, but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me they've got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. Because that's when we're going to fight.

To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

When student-actors see people and the way they behave when together, see the color of the sky, hear the sounds in the air, feel the ground beneath them and the wind on their faces, they get a wider view of their personal world and development in the theater is quickened. The world provides the material for the theater and artistic growth develops hand-in-hand with one's recognition of it and one's self within it.

What is a fine person or a beauteous face,_x000D_ _x000D_ Unless deportment give them decent grace;_x000D_ _x000D_ Blessed with all other requisites to please,_x000D_ _x000D_ To want the striking elegance of ease;_x000D_ _x000D_ Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill_x000D_ _x000D_ Of moving gracefully, or standing still.

For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.

I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.

I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse... Conversion may make of one who was, if no better, no worse than an animal, something like a devil.

No matter how their leaders may have tried to skimp on money, no one, not even the politicians, who talked themselves red, white, and blue in the face, skimped on effort.

One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest-eyed sophistication to discern that while everbody talks about peace, peace has become practically nobody's business among the power-wielders. Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.

This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.

God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures_x000D_ _x000D_ Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with,_x000D_ _x000D_ One to show a woman when he loves her.

Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.

In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails.

The eyes those silent tongues of love.