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“For me, I look at the faces of my kids and I think about the future that is going to await them and whether they're going to not just have the financial resources to be prepared for the challenge, but whether they're going to have the strength and the stamina to live healthier, longer lives so that they can see their kids and grandkids. That's the legacy I hope to see, and it can have nothing to do with me and I'd be perfectly happy.”

Thinking Looks Kids Faces Challenges Resources Prepared Financial Legacy Be Prepared Stamina Grandkids Longer Life Financial Resources

Author:Michelle Obama

“I was always told I was ugly. I still think I am ugly. I know I've got an odd face and you can't tell me otherwise.”

Thinking Knows Stills Faces Ugly Odd I Am Ugly

Author:Mika

“Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down when the earth sank, still stand upright so that if the sun shines from the right quarter, and the water is less muddy than common, a man, peering face downward into its depths, sees, or thinks he sees, down below him the bare top-limbs upstretching like drowned men's fingers, all coated with the mud of years and bandaged with pennons of the green lake slime.”

Ifs Thinking Men Years Stills Earth Faces Water Common Sun Mystery Tree Green Shining Fingers Depth Lakes Quarters Mud Limbs Skeletons Muddy Sun Shines Slime Cypresses Cypress Trees

Author:Irvin S. Cobb

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people.”

People Ifs Thinking World Pain Faces Alive Taught Empathy Connected Wounds World History Unprecedented Dickens

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Very few people want to hear the truth. Bogie was like that, my mother was like that, and I'm like that. I believe in the truth, and I believe in saying what you think. Why not? Do you have to go around whispering all the time or playing a game with people? I just don't believe in that. So I'm not the most adored person on the face of the earth.”

People Thinking Want Believe Persons Earth Faces Mother Games I Believe Don't Believe I Believe In Why Not Whispering

Author:Lauren Bacall

“When I need to wipe my face, I use the back of my hand, And I like to take up space just because I can, And I use my dress to wipe up my drink. I care less and less what people think.”

People Thinking Needs I Can Use Hands Care Faces Space Drink Dresses I Care Wipe Because I Can

Author:Ani DiFranco

“When I ran for the U.S. Senate the assumption was that anyone's name that was close to "Osama" doesn't stand a chance. So if somebody thought that tacking on "Hussein" in there would be a killer, then I think they underestimate the American people and the seriousness of the problems we face.”

People Ifs Thinking Problem Would Be Faces Names Chance Ran Assumption Senate Killers Underestimate Hussein Seriousness

Author:Barack Obama

“I don't think we can ever learn much from ultra-sensitive, shifty faces, skilled in disguise, that hide themselves in lust, as beasts hide to die.”

Thinking Faces Dies Lust Sensitive Beast Disguise Ultras

Book:The Diary of a Country Priest

Source: The Diary of a Country Priest

“I feel my disease, and I feel that my want of alarm and lively affecting conviction forms its most obstinate ingredient; I try to stir up the emotion, and feel myself harassed and distressed at the impotency of my own meditations. But why linger without the threshold in the face of a warm and urgent invitation? "Come unto me." Do not think it is your office to heal one part of the disease, and Christ's to heal the remainder.”

Thinking Want Feels Trying Faces Form Christ My Own Emotion Meditation Office Disease Conviction Warm Heal Ingredients Urgent Invitations Alarms Lively Threshold Obstinate

Author:Thomas Chalmers

“Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: "Let's have done with it now," and it's having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.”

Thinking Needs Humans Done Faces Human Beings Goes On

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was.”

Thinking Knows Men Kind Littles Persons Facts Faces He Man Victory Normal Little Things Fulfilling Superficial Loving Him

Book:Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935

Source: Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935

“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

“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

“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

“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 do not think he [Reagan] put names and faces together but for a small group of people. There were a few, perhaps half a dozen reporters, that Reagan recognized, including my colleague Lou Cannon, and some from television and the wire services. The rest of us were faces.”

People Thinking Together Faces Names Half Groups Television Including Dozen Reporters Colleagues Wire Small Groups Cannons

Author:David E. Hoffman

“I don't think young people need to see the face of the deceased.”

People Thinking Needs Faces Young Deceased

Book:A Quiet Life

Source: A Quiet Life

“I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality.”

Thinking Reality Faces Strong Horse Witty Optimistic Loyal Funny Witty Irish Women

Author:Fionnula Flanagan

“The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered with myriad grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope so as to form, functionally, no more than a single vast grain of thought on the sidereal scale, the plurality of individual reflections grouping themselves together and reinforcing one another in the act of a single unanimous reflection...A new domain of psychical expansion- that is what we lack. And it is staring us in the face if we would only raise our heads to look at it.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Ideas Earth Together Faces Form Individual Becoming Reflection Harmony Raises Scales Staring Covered Grain Expansion Domain Envelopes

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.”

“I believe in mystery and, frankly, I sometimes face this mystery with great fear. In other words, I think that there are many things in the universe that we cannot perceive or penetrate, and that also we experience some of the most beautiful things in life only in a very primitive form. Only in relation to these mysteries do I consider myself to be a religious man.”

Source: The private Albert Einstein

“Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do.”

Thinking Faces Fall Chance Risk Limits Findings Series Endless Exploring Take A Chance Taking Risks

Book:An Improvised Life: A Memoir

Source: An Improvised Life: A Memoir

“Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...”

Thinking Way Stills Two Different Feelings Today Faces Form Spirit Common Special Species Islam Jew Way Of Thinking Face To Face

Author:A. C. Cuza

“Whenever someone sorrows, I do not say, “forget it,” or “it will pass,” or “it could be worse” - all of which deny the integrity of the painful experience. But I say, to the contrary, “It is worse than you may allow yourself to think. Delve into the depth. Stay with the feeling. Think of it as a precious source of knowledge and guidance. Then and only then will you be ready to face it and be transformed in the process.”

Thinking May Feelings Faces Process Forget Ready Source Integrity Sorrow Depth Painful Deny Contrary Guidance Transformed Forget It Painful Experiences

Author:Peter Koestenbaum

“I don't think it's illegal. I don't think it's against the rules. It's as dangerous for me to have a toothpick in your mouth as it is to have a 200-pound man punch me in the face hard or try to kick me in the face. I'm more worried about that, to be honest. I don't have any superstitions. I won world titles with a toothpick. I defended it without a toothpick. It all depends. Sometimes I do it, sometimes I don't. It's a bad habit. I know I shouldn't do it, but it's fine.”

Thinking Knows Men World Trying Sometimes Hard Faces Honest Dangerous Fine Depends Habit Mouths Being Honest Worried Titles Kicks Pounds Illegal Superstitions Bad Habits Toothpicks

Author:Benson Henderson

“An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity gap' is truly a new idea. I can think of no other new concept that so fully condenses all of the challenges we face as a human civilization than the 'ingenuity gap'. Homer-Dixon has found a way to unite all of our concerns about economics, war, population growth, complexity, etc. under a single heading. He is one of an elite group of academics who can write for a mass audience.”

“When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre.”

“The number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that...you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And the funny thing about that is, you think, 'Okay, that's hard because you're climbing up a rock face, and you don't know where you're going, and you don't know where the top is, you can't see what's below you...' But actually the hardest part about climbing a mountain blindfolded is just finding the mountain.”

Thinking Knows Writing Trying Mind Hard Faces Numbers Rocks Mountain Findings Okay Metaphor Hardest Climbs Climbing Funny Things Screenplays Climbing Mountain Blindfolded Climbing Up

Author:Michael Arndt

“Films are now made by accountants. They pick a pretty young female or male face out of the air and give them a part - not because they think that person is right for it or is ready for it, but because they think that person will make them money.”

Thinking Inspirational Giving Persons Made Film Faces Young Air Ready Picks Female Males Accountants

Author:Christopher Lee

“The capacity for loving strangers, whether one thinks of them as fictional beings or stars one will never meet, is a profound reflection on the new consciousness whereby every individual leads his or life while aware of all the billions of other people on Earth. Perhaps it is a fantasy or a fallacy that we can feel for so many strangers. Perhaps it is a mask for selfishness. But no matter the modern stress on special effects, there isn't a sight in movies as momentous as shots of a face as its mind is being changed. And only movies have allowed that.”

“I have done scenes as Harvey Two-Face. It's interesting. I won't tell you exactly what we're going for, but I think that I can say that it will use all of today's technology to create this character. He's going to be interesting, and I think that's what makes this character important in the movie-you get to see him as he was before, as in the comic books. Harvey is a very good guy in the comic books. He's judicious. He cares. He's passionate about what he loves and then he turns into this character. So you will see that in this film.”

Thinking I Can Two Important Book Done Character Use Care Today Film Faces Guy Turns Interesting Technology Scene Very Good Passionate Comic Comic Book Good Guy Harvey

Author:Aaron Eckhart

“[Marla, Shar and I] all have had very public breakups, so I think people know they can relate with us in one way or another. And this is one of the few reality shows where they didn't have the cameras right in people's faces. Like when we were sitting around the table talking with the divorced people, the cameras were way back. And we just listened. Sometimes people just need an ear.”

People Thinking Knows Way Needs Sometimes Shows Reality Faces Talking Sitting Ears Cameras Tables One Way Relate Breakup Divorced Just Listen Sitting Around Reality Shows

Author:Angie Everhart

“I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.”

Thinking Real Faces Comedy Your Face

Author:Wanda Sykes

“You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.”

People Thinking Hard Humor Funny Faces Can Do Powerful Imagine Having Fun Imagine That Funny Face

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“I think he got an incidental elbow in the face, messed up his pretty red lips a little bit. But other than that he'll be fine.”

Thinking Littles Faces Bits Fine Basketball Little Bit Red Lips Nba Elbows Messed Up Red Lips

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“He can play. He can shoot. He can dribble. He can pass. He's a great player. Period. No question about it. And if anyone thinks Dirk is not a great player, I'll punch them in their face.”

Ifs Thinking Play Faces Player Periods Basketball Nba Dribble

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“I think actors make the mistake of finding their little niche in the business and once they try to do something a little darker, boom, they get slapped across the face for it, so they go back to what they did before.”

Thinking Trying Littles Faces Actors Mistake Findings Niche

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“What I know for sure is that all the sacrifice and challenges we face are worth it if we're creating a better future for our kids. I just think if the adults are always thinking about the world we want to leave for our kids, we're going to make the right choices every single time.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Want Kids Faces Choices Challenges Sacrifice Creating Adults Worth It Better Future Always Thinking Right Choices Make The Right Choice Challenges We Face

Author:Michelle Obama

“Having gone through editing process, I can see that in actor's faces there's point where they're not managing their performance and that's, I think, the best place to be. You've done the homework, you've learned the lines, at that point you just sort of let it out.”

Thinking I Can Done Faces Actors Process Lines Gone Performances Be You Editing Homework Best Place

Author:Ralph Fiennes

“I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.”

Thinking Facts Reality Faces Form Political Social Economic Inevitable Social Equality Political Equality

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I think our nation faces enormous challenges, and we need leaders who are willing to tell the truth and do the right thing regardless of the consequences.”

Thinking Needs Faces Nations Challenges Leader Willing Consequence Enormous Right Thing Telling The Truth

Author:Ted Cruz

“I think when you wear the brand anyway, why not go out and try to promote it and make it as cool as you can? The fact that I can continue to do what I've always done and kind of become the face of that brand is to me, kind of just makes sense. It doesn't make sense not to do it I guess.”

Thinking Trying Kind I Can Done Facts Faces Brands Make Sense Why Not

Author:Jason Aldean

“I feel it's important to point out that I've earned my humility by being a jackass - like, I trip and fall on my face and say, "Oh, right. Don't think you're a big shot, because you've got a bloody nose now." So it's hard to say.”

Thinking Feels Important Hard Bigs Faces Fall Humility Shots Noses Bloody Jackasses Big Shots

Author:Nick Offerman

“In difficult times, people too often lose the ability to face the future optimistically. They begin to think about their tomorrow's negatively. They forget that the tough times will pass. They concentrate on the problems of today rather than on the opportunities of tomorrow. In so doing, they not only lose the potential of today, they also throw away the beauty of tomorrow.”

People Thinking Problem Today Faces Opportunity Difficult Loses Ability Forget Tomorrow Tough Difficult Times Tough Times

Book:Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!

Source: Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!

“Carl Jung tells in one of his books of a conversation he had with a Native American chief who pointed out to him that in his perception most white people have tense faces, staring eyes, and a cruel demeanor. He said: “They are always seeking something. What are they seeking? The whites always want something. They are always uneasy and restless. We don't know what they want. We think they are mad.”

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“You think because you face situations not of your making that you exercise no choice? That you are helpless? To the contrary, child. Your whole life has been full of choices. Hiding from a hard truth is a choice. Surrender - even to the inevitable - is a choice. Even in death there is a choice. You may have no control over the time or manner of your death, but you can choose how you face it.”

Thinking May Children Has Beens Hard Whole Faces Choices Situation Exercise Truth Is Contrary Whole Life Surrender Inevitable Hiding Helpless Hard Truths

Author:C. L. Wilson

“I wish to be appreciated not only as a film star but also for the person I am. If I manage to bring a smile on people's faces, then I think I'll be successful.”

People Ifs Thinking Persons Film Faces Wish Stars Successful Manage Being Successful Appreciated Film Stars

Author:Deepika Padukone

“I think there are many faces to everyone. I also have my bad sides. Also I think everyone is trying to improve their shortcomings to become more wholesome.”

Thinking Trying Faces Sides Shortcomings Many Faces

Author:Zhou Xun

“A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list.”

“There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccustomed step.”

Source: Eugenie Grandet

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