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This personnel change must be part of a larger re-thinking of our strategy to confront the threats we face abroad, especially the threat posed by the rise of ISIL (Islamic State), we cannot defeat this enemy without a broad, coordinated, well thought-out effort that has the strong support of the American people. Thus far, this administration has fallen well short. – John Boehner	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
When the security and intelligence agencies tell us that the threat we face is now more dangerous than at any time before or since 9/11 we should take notice. – Home Secretary	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Granted everyone would like to see signs one way or the other, but I think that this is mostly the chairman putting up a Washington poker face, Chairman Wheeler has learned that on net neutrality he has to tow a very careful line and all of his statements are very carefully neutral. – Harold Feld	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I just don’t think I can stand there and celebrate any aspect of this institution and keep a straight face. – James Oddo	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We need fresh funds to grow and vie with the giant rivals we face on global markets, The multinational groups in the coffee market are less fast and flexible than small groups like us, but they can count on very large organizations and budgets. – Segafredo Zanetti	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Hanford workers face a very real and immediate health risk, I want these protections now and I want them for the duration. – Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. – Brian Quintana	added by anonymous 9 years ago
I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun! – Walter Raleigh	added by anonymous 9 years ago
I was shivering in darkness when I suddenly heard a voice; 'Lies, Lies where are you?' It was Anne, and I ran in the direction of the voice, and then I saw her beyond the barbed wire. She was in rags. I saw her emaciated, sunken face in the darkness. Her eyes were very large. We cried and cried, for now there was only the barbed wire between us, nothing more. And no longer any difference in our fates. – Hannah Pik-Goslar	added by anonymous 9 years ago
I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether. – Martial	added by anonymous 9 years ago
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success. – Dorothea Brande	added by anonymous 9 years ago
You can call Kim Kardashian a lot of things but please don't call her socialite! To do so is a slap in the face to every true socialite in the world! – Rose Goodhall	added by RexGunning 9 years ago
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning	added by anonymous 9 years ago
I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king. – Frederick II of Prussia	added by anonymous 9 years ago
This is not an end. It is a beginning. You will need the courage of a lion to face this journey. – Erin Hunter	added by anonymous 9 years ago
“He had a, ‘presence,’ that was second to none, so full of quiet and assured self-possession and dignity. But it never inspired fear. The deepest sentiment that it invoked was awe, not fear. I think the reason for this was his eyes. Yes, I am sure that it was his eyes, so wonderful were they. Of the most delicate, shade of blue, they looked you straight in the face with the kindest, tenderest, most loving expression…His eyes were so clear that it seemed as if he opened the whole of his soul to your gaze, a soul that was so simple and pure that it did not fear your scrutiny…That was his great charm and this was politically his great weakness.” – Charles Sydney Gibbes	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum? – Christopher Marlowe	added by anonymous 9 years ago
A new lens to look through. Hear the pain in people's speaking. People who have an ear to hear can hear. You will no longer tolerate what you used to tolerate. A second point of reality. Declare a new future. There are no right answers. There is no is. Give people breakdowns. It's the loving thing to do. What's being revealed here? Dogs don't have things wrong. Wrong disempowers people. Upsets indicate a right that's been violated. Notice when you are angry that you are the only one around. The only constant thing is you. Business is made up. It's invented. We invent our world through language. If it really turns you on, you may want to inform your face. There is no right way. A chair is only a chair because we say it's a chair. – Mal Pancoast	added by anonymous 9 years ago
We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman. – Ludwig Wittgenstein	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business. – Thomas J. Watson	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart. – Luigi Pirandello	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face. – Leonard Cohen	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death. – Francis Picabia	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. – Francis of Assisi	added by anonymous 10 years ago

This personnel change must be part of a larger re-thinking of our strategy to confront the threats we face abroad, especially the threat posed by the rise of ISIL (Islamic State), we cannot defeat this enemy without a broad, coordinated, well thought-out effort that has the strong support of the American people. Thus far, this administration has fallen well short.

– John Boehner

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

When the security and intelligence agencies tell us that the threat we face is now more dangerous than at any time before or since 9/11 we should take notice.

– Home Secretary

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Granted everyone would like to see signs one way or the other, but I think that this is mostly the chairman putting up a Washington poker face, Chairman Wheeler has learned that on net neutrality he has to tow a very careful line and all of his statements are very carefully neutral.

– Harold Feld

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I just don’t think I can stand there and celebrate any aspect of this institution and keep a straight face.

– James Oddo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We need fresh funds to grow and vie with the giant rivals we face on global markets, The multinational groups in the coffee market are less fast and flexible than small groups like us, but they can count on very large organizations and budgets.

– Segafredo Zanetti

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Hanford workers face a very real and immediate health risk, I want these protections now and I want them for the duration.

– Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

– Brian Quintana