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“Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.”

Men Way Children Faces Happened Shots Old Man Flags American Flag

Author:Billy Joel

“And so my child and I came to this place to meet him eye to eye and face to face. He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced. We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad.”

Children Made Eye Faces Laughing Daughter My Children My Daughter Face To Face Leningrad

Author:Billy Joel

“Since time immemorial, youth has set the universal standard of physical beauty, and the reason is simply that a shapely firm young face and body are more attractive sexually and aesthetically than bulges, sags and wrinkles.”

Reason Body Faces Young Youth Standards Universal Firm Attractive Wrinkles Sexually Physical Beauty

Author:Hugh Hefner

“I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.”

Faces Kissing Eating Treats Mask Remove Eggs Shells Pretty Face

Book:The Birds

Source: The Birds

“To be disciplined does not mean being silent, abstaining, or doing only what one thinks one may undertake without risk; it is not the art of eluding responsibility; it means acting in compliance with orders received, and therefore finding in one's own mind, by effort and reflection, the possibility to carry out such orders. It also means finding in one's own will the energy to face the risks involved in execution.”

Thinking Mind May Mean Doe Art Faces Order Energy Effort Acting Responsibility Risk Possibility Involved Findings Reflection Silent Execution Risk It Compliance Abstaining

Author:Ferdinand Foch

“Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power.”

Faces Force Arms Threat Credible

Book:Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

Source: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

“It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal. So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.”

Should Faces Animal Wicked Associates Tigers

Author:Ramakrishna

“The world must come together to confront climate change. There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought, famine and mass displacement that will fuel more conflict for decades.”

Ifs World Littles Together Faces Conflict Mass Climate Climate Change Decades Fuel Global Warming Disputes Famine Drought Displacement

Author:Barack Obama

“It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.”

Mind Earth Faces Left Wish White Seeing Species Males Parks National Parks

Author:Alan Bennett

“There [is] a feeling of recognition, as of meeting an old friend, which comes to us all in the face of great artistic experiences. I had the same experience when I first heard an English folksong, when I first saw Michelangelo's Day and Night, when I suddenly came upon Stonehenge or had my first sight of New York City - the intuition that I had been there already.”

Firsts Feelings Faces Night Cities Saws Heard New York Sight Meetings Intuition Recognition Artistic New York City Great Art Day And Night Old Friends Great Artist Stonehenge

Author:Ralph Vaughan Williams

“The learned are said to have seeing eyes; The unlearned have only two sores on their faces.”

Said Two Eye Faces Seeing

Author:Thiruvalluvar

“As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we're getting close to one, because the imaginative loss of the future is becoming acute.The most effective political actors on the planet now are people who want to blow themselves up.These are people who really don't want to get out of the bed in the morning and face another unpredictable day.”

People Thinking Way Want Problem Faces Political Actors Loss Morning Planets Becoming Bed Philosophical Blow Passages Unpredictable Imaginative Better Ways Passage Of Time

Author:Bruce Sterling

“What is called “apathy” is, I believe, a feeling of helplessness on the part of the ordinary citizen, a feeling of impotence in the face of enormous power. It’s not that people are apathetic; they do care about what is going on, but don’t know what to do about it, so they do nothing, and appear to be indifferent.”

People Knows Believe Feelings Care Faces I Believe Citizens Ordinary Enormous Apathy Indifferent Helplessness Impotence Apathetic Ordinary Citizens

Author:Howard Zinn

“The cross of Christ is the pledge to us that the deepest suffering may be the condition of the highest blessing; the sign, not of God's displeasure, but of His widest and most compassionate face.”

May Faces Suffering Christ Conditions Blessing Highest Crosses Compassionate Pledge Displeasure

Author:Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

“Well everybody's got a secret, son, something that they just can't face. Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it, they carry it with them every step that they take Till some day they just cut it loose, cut it loose or let it drag 'em down Where no one asks any questions or looks too long in your face In the darkness on the edge of town.”

Trying Wells Looks Long Whole Faces Asks Secret Steps Darkness Cutting Son Towns Folks Edges Whole Life Ems Your Face Drag Every Step

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.”

Made Kids Faces Secret Records Alive Streets Rocks Band Machines Paid Guitar Debt Hungry Contact Rock N Roll Flash Unseen Blades Hustle Hunted

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Scriptura sacra mentis oculis quasi quoddam speculum opponitur, ut interna nostra facies in ipsa videatur. Holy scripture is placed before the eyes of our mind like a mirror, so that we may view our inner face therein.”

Mind May Eye Faces Views Holy Mirrors Scripture Holy Scriptures

Author:Pope Gregory I

“I do not see in what way the face of a man should be a less interesting landscape than any other. A man, the physical person of a man, is a little world, like any other a country, with its towns, and suburbs.. ..As a rule what is needed in a portrait is a great deal of the general, and very little of the particular.”

Men World Way Should Littles Persons Country Faces Interesting Deals Particular Needed Towns Landscape Portraits Suburbs

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“I can have little patience with those who oppose ... the theory of evolution or what are called "mechanistic" explanations of the phenomena of life because of certain moral consequences which at first seem to follow from these theories, and still less with those who regard it as irrelevant or impious to ask certain questions at all. By refusing to face the facts , the conservative only weakens his own position.”

“This whole which is visible in different ways in bodies, as far as formation, constitution, appearance, colors and other properties and common qualities, is none other than the diverse face of the same substance a changeable, mobile face, subject to decay, of an immobile, permanent and eternal being.”

Way Different Whole Body Faces Common Quality Subjects Color Eternal Constitution Property Appearance Substance Permanent Different Ways Visible Decay Diverse Mobile Formation

Author:Giordano Bruno

“For nature is not merely present , but is implanted within things, distant from none... And while the outer face of things changeth so greatly, there flourisheth the origin of being more intimately within all things than they themselves. The fount of all kinds, Mind , God , Being, One, Truth , Destiny , Reason , Order .”

Mind Kind Reason Faces Order Destiny All Things All Kinds Things Change

Author:Giordano Bruno

“Although a government study found that men's health was much worse than women's health or the health of any minority group, headlines around the country read: 'Minorities Face Large Health Care Gap.' They did not say: 'Men Face Large Health Care Gap.' Why? Because we associate the sacrifice of men's lives with the saving of the rest of us, and this association leads us to carry in our unconscious an incentive not to care about men living longer.”

Men Country Government Care Faces Found Study Sacrifice Groups Saving Health Care Unconscious Minorities Gaps Association Associates Incentives Headlines Minority Groups Women's Health

Author:Warren Farrell

“If they (Muslim women) wish to cover their faces and isolate themselves from the rest of the community and so thoroughly reject our culture then I cannot imagine why they want to be here at all. Perhaps they should just push off back to their own countries.”

Ifs Want Should Country Faces Culture Wish Community Imagine Rejects Muslim Women

Author:Norman Tebbit

“O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud.”

Dream Faces Mother Fire Son Deeper Mud Sock Knitting Your Son

Book:War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

Source: War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

“The industry has changed. Two years ago I could tell a company I've got Russell Crowe and that would get the film made. Now they'd ask 'And who's the girl?' Just one famous face isn't enough any more.”

Years Made Two Enough Film Faces Girl Asks Company Changed Industry Years Ago Just One Two Years Two Years Ago

Author:Gary Oldman

“[President Bush should] quit hiding behind the Secret Service, come out and face the nation and explain his failure to protect the country.”

Should Country Faces Nations President Secret Behinds Protect Quitting Hiding President Bush Secret Service

Author:Peter Jennings

“Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one literally lost oneself in a human image as one would in a philtre, when the face represented a kind of absolute state of the flesh, which could be neither reached nor renounced.”

Humans Kind Stills States Moments Faces Lost Audience Absolutes Oneself Flesh Cinema That Moment Ecstasy Human Faces Garbo

Author:Greta Garbo

“We face a brutal enemy who will kill the innocent for one purpose and that is to gain control of the Middle East and to use the leverage of oil to bring down the West, and to attack us again.”

Use Faces Purpose Enemy Middle Gains West Oil East Innocent Middle East Brutal

Author:Karl Rove

“As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.”

Knows Littles Faces Common Laughing Poet Tall Sneer Taciturn

Author:Carol Ann Duffy

“My English teacher wanted to have sex with me in Junior High. The only problem was, my English teacher was a guy. I smacked him in his face with an eraser, chased him with a stapler and stapled his nuts to a stack of papers.”

Problem Wanted Faces Guy Next Sex Teacher Paper Thanks Grades Nuts Papers Juniors Junior High English Teacher Erasers Semester

Author:Eminem

“Ignorance, as well as disapproval for the natural restraints placed on market excesses that capitalism and sound markets impose, cause our present leaders to reject capitalism and blame it for all the problems we face. If this fallacy is not corrected and capitalism is even further undermined, the prosperity that the free market generates will be destroyed.”

Source: Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property

“I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.”

Faces Certain Found Force Interviews

Author:Christina Aguilera

“I don't see makeup as a defense. I see it as a creative outlet. I am a woman who has my extreme vulnerable side and my baggage--and at times I feel extremely weak. And who's to say a little mascara doesn't make you feel more confident when you pop it on and look in the mirror? It helps, especially in my position, where I have people waiting down the street to take pictures of me so they can evaluate and criticize every little flaw on my face.”

“Here, in the bare dark face of night A calm unhurried eye draws sight We see in what we think we fear The cloudings of our thought made clear”

Thinking Made Eye Faces Night Dark Clear Draws Sight Calm Our Thoughts

Author:Iain Banks

“America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. By trying to seize far more power than is necessary over American citizens, the federal government is destroying its own legitimacy. We face a choice not of anarchy or authoritarianism, but a choice of limited government or unlimited government .”

Source: Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

“The not-visibly-insane Democrats all claim they'll get rough with the terrorists, but they can't even face Brit Hume. In case you missed this profile in Democrat machismo, the Democratic presidential candidates are refusing to participate in a debate hosted by Fox News Channel because the hosts are "biased." But they'll face down Mahmoud Ahmadinejad! At this, even Hillary Clinton was thinking, "Come on, guys - let's grow a pair."”

“I am spoken to not in words, which come to me quaint and veiled, but in signs, in conformations of face and hands, in postures of shoulders and feet, in nuances of tune and tone, in gaps and absences whose grammar has never been recorded.”

Hands Faces Feet Absence Shoulders Tone Tunes Gaps Grammar Posture Nuance Quaint

Book:In the Heart of the Country: A Novel

Source: In the Heart of the Country: A Novel

“The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights.”

Art Light Faces Games Walks Wall Survival Your Face Elbows Glare Smile On Your Face

Author:Jean Chretien

“The person I enjoyed interviewing the most was Elmo from Sesame Street because he is so unpredictable and he is always eating my hair and my face.”

Persons Faces Streets Hair Eating Enjoyed Unpredictable Sesame Street Elmo Always Eating

Author:Katie Couric

“Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in your face at its own unfunny jokes.”

Life Faces Party Laughing Office Jokes Killing Seeking Boring Drunk Your Face Pointless Yarn

Author:Glen Duncan

“Do you know how hard it is to make a home?... That's something that a woman does from inside herself. You do it in the face of all sorts of opposition. Husbands are very appreciative when it works out well. But they're not that anxious to help. It's understandable. They don't know how.”

Knows Wells Doe Hard Helping Home Faces Know How Husband Work Out Opposition Do You Know Anxious Appreciative

Book:Dhalgren

Source: Dhalgren

“In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code.”

Ifs Want Writing Kind Faces Code Nothingness Entropy

Author:Karl Lehenbauer

“Tomorrow changes the face of reality.”

Reality Faces Tomorrow

Author:Philip Jose Farmer

“Burton sighed, laughed loudly, and said, "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." Another fairy tale to give men hope . The old religions have been discredited although some refuse to face even that fact so new ones must be invented.”

Men Giving Has Beens Said Facts Faces Refuse Tales Fairy Plus Laughed Fairy Tale

Book:Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat

Source: Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat

“Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.”

Government Faces Intervention Surplus Government Intervention

Author:Benjamin Graham

“Your face may be gone, but you know who you are.”

Knows May Faces Gone Who You Are Your Face

Book:The King Beyond The Gate

Source: The King Beyond The Gate

“I know people for whom the search for how to be well has been a positive journey. It's empowering to face your issues and try and take care of yourself. It can be positive too.”

People Knows Trying Wells Has Beens Care Faces Issues Journey Take Care Empowering Being Positive Take Care Of Yourself

Author:Maya Forbes

“Most people get better when they face competition.”

People Faces Competition Get Better

Author:Joel Klein

“People want the nation to transform in the same way they want their own lives to transform. If you're interested in transforming your life, you can't just transform some things. You can't try to fix some things, but sweep other things under the rug because it's too hard to face them. And the same is true for a nation.”

People Ifs Way Want Trying Hard Faces Nations Transforming

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Whenever I look at the history of presidents I deeply admire - the one thing that I'm always struck by is persistence. It's a quality that's underrated. Being able to plough through, being able to stay buoyant in the face of challenges.”

Looks Able Faces President Challenges Quality One Thing Admire Persistence Underrated

Author:Barack Obama

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