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“Ensor sees with his imagination, but his vision is perfectly accurate, of an almost geometric precision. He is one of the very few who can really see. Like you, he has an obsession with masks; he is a seer as you and I are. The common herd, of course thinks that he is mad.*****************You shall see what sort of man Ensor is, and what a marvellous insight he has into the invisible realm where our vices are created... those vices for which our faces make masks.”

Thinking Men Faces Courses Imagination Common Vision Like You Mad Vices Insight Invisible Obsession Realms Mask Accurate Herds Precision Marvellous Seers Geometric

Book:Monsieur de Phocas

Source: Monsieur de Phocas

“We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy.”

Kind Stills Faces Values Revolution Irony Digital 80s Nerd Infancy Face Value Digital Revolution

Author:Chris Hardwick

“But ... the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies — those days are over.”

People Faces Enemy Passive

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“My brain . . . it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, 'You're a failure' . . . I think that's almost worse than death.”

Ifs Thinking Faces Process Brain

Author:Kobe Bryant

“Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.”

America Faces Air Flower Holy Tired Jazz Dawn Floating

Book:Road Novels 1957-1960

Source: Road Novels 1957-1960

“Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.”

Men Humans Soul Faces Prayer Activity Highest Knees Human Soul Face To Face Soul Man

Author:Martyn

“I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.”

I Can Play Faces Football Fit Edges Insane Damn Mask

Author:Joe Greene

“Remember...we don't see objects, we see light. [...] Light can do anything water can do--flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can do--paint, burnish, carve. Candlelight falls, licks a face. There is always light in a room.”

Light Remember Faces Artist Fall Water Can Do Rooms Objects Flow Paint Candlelight

Author:Janet Fitch

“Every entrepreneur faces trade-offs when founding and growing their company. As we discovered at YouTube, those early decisions have far-reaching impacts and lead to unforeseen pitfalls down the road. Noam Wasserman uses vivid anecdotes and deep research to expertly outline the key early choices that define a startup, making The Founder's Dilemmas an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error.”

“When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.”

Matter Faces Desperate

Author:Robert Burns

“Murana is the name of the mask I have designed for Venini: a volume to wear for filtering the reality through the glass of its surfaces, a face without sexual or racial connotations able to represent every kind of humanity, a soul for an object that could be casually perceived as a vase.”

Kind Soul Reality Able Faces Humanity Names Objects Glasses Surface Mask Volume Connotation Vases

Author:Fabio Novembre

“People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.”

People Children Two Faces Careers Demand Scales

Author:Jodi Kantor

“My face is on bubblegum wrappers now!”

Faces

Author:Chaske Spencer

“I've buried six Guardian Angels who have been shot and killed in the line of duty. I was stalked myself, had a gunman go pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, five hollow point bullets, God save me. What do you think this is? This isn't Zimmerman. But unfortunately, he's become the face of Block Watch, Crime Watch.”

Thinking Has Beens Faces Lines Watches Five Crime Duty Six Shots Angel Block Buried Bullets Guardian Hollow Save Me Guardian Angel Pow Gunmen Zimmerman

Author:Curtis Sliwa

“The notions of going to work, putting in set hours, and getting 'face time' are increasingly antiquated ideas. Because of technology we have entered a modern era of work where we can work from wherever we want, whenever we want and we can be more productive and make greater contributions than ever before.”

Want Ideas Faces Hours Technology Greater Modern Notion Eras Contribution Productive Going To Work Modern Era

Author:Maynard Webb

“To the extent that Israel does face threats, like from say Hamas or Hezbollah, those are threats that do not jeopardise Israel's existence.”

Doe Faces Existence Threat Israel Hamas Hezbollah

Author:Stephen Walt

“I don't care how unkind the things people say about me so long as they don't say them to my face.”

People Long Care Faces Criticism Don't Care I Don't Care Unkind

Book:The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

“He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price.”

Men Faces Found Names Fear Hero Needed Band Towns Calm Certainty Resolve Coward Jackals

Author:Walter Hill

“I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats.”

People Faces Walks Watches Streets Car Train Boat Stations Crowded Railroads Ferry Crowded Streets

Book:We are Many: An Autobiography by Ella Reeve Bloor

Source: We are Many: An Autobiography by Ella Reeve Bloor

“I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and faces, with some intonation that combines ancient human experience with timely coquetry.”

Humans Faces Language Poor Class Expression Skills International Ancient Human Experience Bourgeoisie Timely Upper Class Swedish Coquetry Extraction Intonation Language Skills

Author:Erland Josephson

“I like to do a face steam, so, heat up a flannel, press it onto your face and then press a cold one on afterwards to close the pores. It's inexpensive!”

Faces Cold Presses Heat Your Face Steam Inexpensive Flannels

Author:Georgia May Jagger

“You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all.”

Knows Faces Culture Community Painting Unique Western Representing Collectivism Western Culture

Author:Joseph Jarman

“Every movie goes through that U-shape where you start with 'Oh that's a great idea. I love it.' Everything's possible and then you face 'Oh, we can't do that, and that's impossible, and that's a bad choice.' You go the practicality of it. And then you come up to 'Great.' But that middle part is when you don't have results yet.”

Ideas Faces Choices Results Impossible Middle Shapes Come Up Great Idea Practicality Bad Choices

Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“Civil servants are fully aware of the challenges the British economy faces. They are, after all, working tirelessly and professionally to support the coalition government through the current challenges, every day, and in every part of Britain.”

Government Faces Challenges Support Economy Currents British Servant Britain Coalitions Civil Servants British Economy

Author:Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell

“There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.”

Faces Research Substitutes Face To Face

Author:Thomas Friedman

“Now North Korea certainly is located in a different place geographically, but I think it faces the same type of strategic decision. Does it want a different future for its people?”

People Thinking Want Doe Different Faces Decision Type Korea Strategic North Korea Different Place

Author:Mitchell Reiss

“I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that 'Waste Land' was too much of a downer. For me, 'The Crash Reel' confronts what the film is about: it's not just about the reality of a crash, it's about the extremity we all face, and what happens when life crashes on you.”

Reality Happens Film Faces Too Much Land Waste Hardest Worried Titles Crash Hardest Thing Extremity Downers Waste Land

Author:Lucy Walker

“With faces like dead lovers who died true.”

Faces Lovers Died

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.”

Faces Boys

Author:E. W. Howe

“True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.”

Thinking Mind Persons Faces Beauty Moral Expression Depends Features Accustomed True Beauty

Author:Arthur Frederick Saunders

“Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain- beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering.”

Mind I Can Eye Faces Sky Clothes Rain Stones Blue Depth Ancient Disappear All Time Silver Pale Beaten Unsatisfied Hovering Helm

Book:Later Poems

Source: Later Poems

“Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.”

“Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.”

Ifs Faces Mirrors Blame Your Face

Author:Nikolai Gogol

“No matter how grouchy you're feeling, You'll find the smile more or less healing. It grows in a wreath All around the front teeth - Thus preserving the face from congealing.”

“If God's people hunger deeply enough, God will hear and send revival. God requires more than casual prayers for revival. He wants His people to hunger and thirst for His mighty working. To seek God's face is far more than occasionally mentioning revival in our prayer. It involves repeated and prolonged prayer. It requires holy determination in prayer, examining ourselves to see if anything in our lives is hindering God.”

People Ifs Want Enough Faces Life Is Prayer Our Lives Holy Worship Determination Hunger Gods Will Thirst Revival Our Prayers Casual Examining Hunger And Thirst

Author:Wesley L Duewel

“Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.”

Wells Long Doe Important Facts Faces Social Term Challenges Support Clear Security Citizens Program Well Being Long Term Stability Senior Social Security Crystals Cornerstones Senior Citizen

Author:Bill Frist

“From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.”

Ifs Men States Faces Law Justice Poor Crime Equal Fairs Ideals Constitution Noble Lawyer Trials Emphasis Poor Man Tribunals Accusers Fair Trial

Author:Hugo Black

“While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring the continuance of its policy - in face of the determination of the opposing state to pursue a contrary policy. In the human will lies the source and mainspring of conflict.”

Humans War States Faces Lying Causes Military Policy Objects Source Conflict Determination Fundamentals Contrary Pursue Opposing Human Will Continuance

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.”

Hands Faces Sports Excellence Obstacles Planning Silver Motivational Sports Preparing Silver Platter

Author:Terry Orlick

“We learn to face the reality and the pain of our loss, to say good-bye to the dead loved one, to restore ourselves, and to reinvest in life once again.”

Reality Pain Faces Loss Grieving Loved Ones Bye Good Bye Saying Good Bye

Book:The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief

Source: The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief

“Why does soldiers leave the protection of his trench hole in the ground and go forward in the face of shot and shell? It is because of the leader who is in front of him and his comrades who are around him. Comradeship makes a man feel warm and courageous when all his instincts tend to make him cold and afraid.”

Men Feels Doe Faces Leader Military Fronts Cold Shots Instinct Soldier Warm Protection Holes Courageous Shells Comrade Trenches Comradeship

Author:Bernard Law Montgomery

“Do not let your heart become troubled by the sad spectacle of human injustice. Even this has its value in the face of all else. And it is from this that one day you will see the justice of God rising with unfailing triumph.”

Humans Heart Faces Suffering Values Justice One Day Injustice Triumph Rising Justice Of God

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“The man or woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the bowed frame of years, you will always see the dear face and feel the warm heart union of your eternal love.”

Men Feels Years Heart Art Faces Grows Women He Man Eternal Eternity Unions Dear Warm Wrinkles Toasts Eternal Love Wedding Toast Wedding Speech Warm Heart

Book:Inspiration & motivation

Source: Inspiration & motivation

“See yourself being a master of gratitude in the future. Mentally picture how this will help you feel joy the moment you are awake and are grateful for being alive. See how you can be grateful and happy for each breath. Realize that when you master gratitude, you will see a happy face every time you look into the mirror. See how your entire quality of life will be improved. See how other people will tell you that they enjoy being around you because you are such a happy person.”

People Feels Looks Persons Moments Helping Faces Joy Enjoy Realizing Quality Alive Masters Gratitude Breaths Mirrors Grateful Awake Be Grateful Quality Of Life Happy Person Happy Face

Author:Zelig Pliskin

“Prescription for Life-long Happiness: Purpose enough for satisfaction; Work enough for sustenance; Sanity enough to know when to play and rest; Wealth enough for basic needs; Affection enough to like many and love a few; Self-respect enough to love yourself; Charity enough to give to others in need; Courage enough to face difficulties; Creativity enough to solve problems; Humor enough to laugh at will; Hope enough to expect an interesting tomorrow; Gratitude enough to appreciate what you have; Health enough to enjoy life for all its worth.”

“It is not enough to say prayers: we must become, be prayer, prayer incarnate. All of life, each act, each act, every gesture, even the smile of the human face, must become a hymn of adoration, an offering, a prayer. One should offer not what one has but what one is.”

Should Humans Enough Faces Spiritual Prayer Offers Offering Gestures Adoration Hymns Human Faces

Author:Paul Evdokimov

“It sends the signal that you can kill and walk away and not face the kind of justice that you ought to pay for those kinds of acts.”

Kind Faces Justice Walks Pay Ought Signals Death Penalty

Author:Troy King

“Before we return to Heaven, our real home, we have an incredible opportunity on Earth to face challenges that will help us learn, grow and to become more Christ-like in the fruits of our spirit.”

Real God Helping Home Earth Christian Faces Spirit Opportunity Heaven Grows Christ Challenges Religious Return Fruit Incredibles Christ Like

Author:Mary C. Neal

“If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.”

People Ifs Want Faces Laughing Serious Laughter Your Face Making People Laugh

Author:Giacomo Casanova

“Those truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle of all sorts of gourmands of every category, whilst their faces beam with delight and they themselves dance with pleasure.”

Stills Eye Faces Stars Pleasure Food Delight Reputation Categories Turkeys Beam Sparkle

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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