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“Producers generally don't like me; directors do, generally. Convincing the producers is hard. They can't see the commercial value behind such a face, nor would they get a commercial value, necessarily - and I don't mean that in a good way or a bad way.”

Way Mean Hard Faces Values Behinds Directors Like Me Producers Convincing Good Way Don't Like Me

Author:Amanda Plummer

“A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?”

People Ifs Believe Feelings Faces Girl Behinds Vision Imagine Youth Fairs Moved Weather Primitive Sympathetic Eighteen Woven

Book:Romola: In Two Volumes

Source: Romola: In Two Volumes

“People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?”

People Faces Behinds Criticism Praise Suspicious

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The Bible promises us that Jesus will return to take His faithful followers with Him to live with Him in His glorious presence forever. Everyone else will be left behind to face God's wrath and judgment. If Jesus were to return today, do you know if He would take you with Him to heaven?.”

Ifs Knows Today Faces Jesus Left Heaven Behinds Forever Return Promise Judgment Bible Faithful Glorious Do You Know Followers Wrath Left Behind

Author:Billy Graham

“The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall.”

Faces Behinds Mourning

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“My personal life may be crowded with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean; but if I obey Jesus Christ in the haphazard circumstances, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God, and when I stand face to face with God I will discover that through my obedience thousands were blessed. When once God's Redemption comes to the point of obedience in a human soul, it always creates. If I obey Jesus Christ, the Redemption of God will rush through me to other lives, because behind the deed of obedience is the Reality of Almighty God.”

Source: Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year

“If thou desire to see thy child virtuous, let him not see his father's vices: thou canst not rebuke that in them, that they behold practised in thee; till reason be ripe, examples direct more than precepts: such as thy behaviour is before thy children's faces, such commonly is theirs behind their parents' backs.”

Ifs Children Reason Faces Desire Father Parent Behinds Example Direct Vices Thee Virtuous Behaviour Ripe Rebuke

Author:Francis Quarles

“[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

“Henceforth we will tackle our enemies that come face to face with us and we will not be stabbed in from behind by internal foes. To this end, we will arm the allies and comrades of the broad masses without giving respite to reactionaries, and avenge the blood of our comrades double - and triple - fold.”

Giving Ends Faces Behinds Enemy Blood Arms Mass Internals Broads Allies Foe Folds Face To Face Comrade Reactionaries Respite

Author:Mengistu Haile Mariam

“Obviously, Sam is the type of guy that hides behind his pen and pad. I promise you he wouldn't say that to my face in a dark alley where it's just me and him and no witnesses.”

Faces Guy Dark Behinds Media Type Promise Witness Pens Nba I Promise Alleys Pads Type Of Guy Dark Alleys

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“A voice is in the wind I do not know A meaning on the face of the high hills Whose utterance I cannot comprehend. A something is behind them: that is God.”

Knows God Faces Voice Behinds Wind Hills Utterance

Book:The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

“Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.”

Men Real Character Faces Dies Left Difficult Behinds Youth Legends Shed Handsome Halos Handsome Men

Book:Moments Of Being

Source: Moments Of Being

“Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.”

Needs Looks Use Hands Eye Faces Sides Secret Behinds Vision Fronts Sight Mirrors Track Prey Pins Predator Peripheral Vision Sneaking Up

Author:Diane Ackerman

“We are pushed forward by the social forces, reluctant and stumbling, our faces over our shoulders, clutching at every relic of the past as we are forced along; still adoring whatever is behind us. We insist upon worshipping 'the God of our fathers.' Why not the God of our children? Does eternity only stretch one way?”

Way Children Doe Stills Past Faces Father Force Social Change Behinds Eternity Our Children Shoulders Resistance One Way Why Not Status Quo Our Father Reluctant Stumbling Relics

Book:The Home

Source: The Home

“Just because they say they're praying for you in your face, doesn't mean they aren't laughing at your struggle behind your back.”

Mean Faces Behinds Laughing Struggle Praying Betrayal Your Face Praying For You Behind Your Back

Author:Trent Shelton

“We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.”

World Believe Made War Body Faces Behinds Racism Flesh Loud War Of The Worlds Bigotry Yellow World War Ii World War I Betrayed Wire Barbed Wire

Book:We, the Dangerous: New and Selected Poems

Source: We, the Dangerous: New and Selected Poems

“Speak not in high commendation of any man to his face, nor censure any man behind his back; but if thou knowest anything good of him, tell it unto others; if anything ill, tell it privately and prudently to himself.”

Ifs Men Faces Speak Behinds Praise Ill Censure Commendation

Book:The poor man's help, and young man's guide

Source: The poor man's help, and young man's guide

“A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I dont know what they think.”

People Thinking Knows Writing Faces Behinds Audience Comic Comedian Feedback Comic Strips Stand Up Comedian

Author:Stephan Pastis

“The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.”

Faces Black Nature Dark White Behinds Sun Fire Blood Changed Red Rivers Filled Winter Forests Ships Ruins Substance Yards Eastern Mist Marshes Masts Winter Days

Book:Our Mutual Friend

Source: Our Mutual Friend

“If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.”

People Ifs Said Would Be Faces Behinds Impossible Gossip

Author:Honore de Balzac