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One cannot remain the same. Art is a mirror which should show many reflections, and the artist should not always show the same face, or the face becomes a mask. – Yvette Gilbert, (1865-1944)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating. – Ayn Rand	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Never give up and never face the facts. – Ruth Gordon	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Politician talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face. – Clare Booth Luce	added by anonymous 13 years ago
May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back, May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again may god hold you in the palm of his hand – unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man. – Confucius, Analects, XIV.12	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture. – St. John Baptist de La Salle, The Rules of Christian Manners and Civility (c. 1695)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
At age 50, every man has the face he deserves. – George Orwell	added by anonymous 13 years ago
O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like rest of my race? – William Blake 1803	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves. – Alfred North Whitehead	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth. – Ambassador Li Zhaoxing, PRC, Idaho Grain, Fall 2000, p.8	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another. – William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. – Helen Kelller	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. – Teddy Roosevelt	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up. – John Lennon	added by anonymous 13 years ago
False face must hide what the false heart doth know. – William Shakespeare, Macbeth, I.vii	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. – Albert Camus	added by anonymous 13 years ago
2. He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort. – Imam Ali-Ibn-Abi-Talib, Nahjul Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no. 2	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. – Katherine Mansfield	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. – Fred Astaire	added by anonymous 13 years ago
For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you think He cares to see only kneeling figures and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children, as they roll amoung the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the "dim religious light" of some solemn cathedral? – Lewis Carroll	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows. – Helen Keller	added by anonymous 13 years ago
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt	added by anonymous 13 years ago
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. – Eleanor Roosevelt	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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