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“A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.”

“What sun is there within us that shoots his rays with so sudden a vigor? To see the soul flash in the face at this rate one would think would convert an atheist. By the way, we may observe that smiles are much more becoming than frowns. This seems a natural encouragement to good-humor; as much as to say, if people have a mind to be handsome, they must not be peevish and untoward.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Mind May Soul Seems Faces Natural Sun Becoming Encouragement Rate Atheist Rays Flash Handsome Vigor Good Humor

Author:Jeremy Collier

“I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who turn sad faces toward the world find only sadness reflected. But a smile is reflected in the same way, and cheers and brightens our hearts. You think there is no pleasure to be had in life. That is because you are heartsick and-and tired, as you say. With one sad story ended you are afraid to begin another-a sequel-feeling it would be equally sad. But why should it be? Isn't the joy or sorrow equally divided in life?”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)

“The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon.”

Thinking World Needs Faces Found Future Responsible Sacred Arise Hopelessness Inability Here And Now Live In The Present Hopes Up

Book:Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

“Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless you lived in New York, so there wasn't as much pressure to present a respectable exterior. And secondly, there was no social media. So if you were found face down on the floor - people did do that quite a bit; usually men, but not always - or fell through plate glass windows or got into scrapes, it became a rumor, and rumors are hard to pin down.”

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Author:Margaret Atwood

“I do know that I can take a punch. I've been punched in the face three times. That's, I think, a really important thing to know about yourself. It helps you in life. It helps you be brave when you know you can take a punch. I'm a lover, not a fighter. But, God bless me, I can take a punch.”

Thinking Knows I Can Important Helping Faces Three Lovers Important Things Brave Fighter Bless About Yourself Be Brave Three Times God Bless God Bless Me

Author:Sarah Silverman

“Age continually alters the faces of those who think or study, and so their portraits differ from one another and don't even resemble them for very long. I dream so much and live so little that I'm sometimes only three years old. But the next day I'm three hundred, if the dream has been sombre.”

Ifs Thinking Years Littles Long Has Beens Sometimes Dream Age Faces Three Next Study Hundred Three Years Portraits Next Day Three Year Olds

Book:Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand

Source: Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand

“I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts.”

Thinking Facts Faces Smashing

Author:Ruth Gordon

“Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.”

Thinking Littles Made Feelings Faces Hair Lips Block Saving Hammers Calculations Unbroken Uncanny Tassels

Book:Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes

Source: Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes

“... I see the country going fascist. We have been going that route a long, long time. A lot of things the country has done from its inception were fascist. But now, now I think we are in the face of a terrible fascist dictatorship.”

Thinking Long Has Beens Country Done Faces Terrible Long Time Dictatorship Routes Fascists Inception

Book:Conversations with Margaret Walker

Source: Conversations with Margaret Walker

“The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.”

Thinking Humans Earth Faces Brain Objects Complexes Honestly Human Brain

Author:Bill Viola

“I was most confusedly in love. ... Even though I resolved not to think of him, his face would keep appearing between me and a book I tried to read, or his voice would suddenly sound instead of the words I tried to write on a page. ... I found love annoying and uncomfortable, like fetters, until I got used to it.”

Thinking Writing Book Faces Used Found Sound Voice Pages Uncomfortable Annoying Appearing Fetters Found Love

Author:Nora Waln

“Throughout my life, I have always supported the human being in his humanism and I have supported the oppressed. I think it is the person's right to live his freedom and it is her and his right to face the injustice imposed on each by revolting against it, using his practical, realistic and available means to end the oppressor's injustice toward him, whether it is an individual, a community, a nation, or a state; whether male or female.”

Thinking Humans Mean Persons Ends States Faces Individual Nations Community Human Beings Female Males Injustice Humanism Available Practicals Realistic Oppressed Oppressors

Author:Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

“We will never know everything. But I think if we can learn within the next few decades to face the danger we all are in, I believe there will be tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions, of human beings working wherever they are to do something good.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Believe Humans Faces Next I Believe Human Beings Millions Danger Decades

Author:Pete Seeger

“You're not always going to hit the bull's-eye. I'm going to make movies that work and I'm going to make movies that don't work, and that's just a part of being creative. Because really, I think if you're taking risks and you're pushing yourself and you're doing things that scare you, you are going to fall on your face, and it's not always going to work.”

Ifs Thinking Eye Faces Fall Creative Risk Pushing Your Face Scare Be Creative Going To Work Bulls Taking Risks Push Yourself

Author:Hilary Swank

“Whenever there's a camera in my face, that's when I feel vulnerable, and then it turns into a little bit of being self-conscious, which I think is the worst kind of vulnerability.”

Thinking Feels Kind Littles Self Faces Turns Bits Worst Little Bit Conscious Cameras Vulnerable Vulnerability Self Conscious

Author:Jason Mraz

“Starting off in music, the purpose of it was not to become like well known on the street and be famous. You know, I didn't even think about that part of being famous. Famous for making records, yes, but famous face in a woman's magazine, I never thought of that. I didn't want that.”

Thinking Knows Want Wells Faces Purpose Known Records Streets Starting Magazines Well Known Being Famous

Author:Mick Jagger

“Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold the idea of being ordinary in absolute contempt, so when they face an illness, poverty, or any kind of catastrophe, they say, 'I can't believe this happened to me.' And who did you think it was going to happen to - the woman across the street?”

“Whenever problems seem to get the best of me, whenever I feel them closing in on me, I go to a quiet place that lies somewhere in my soul. I do not reason, analyze or think. Those will come later. I simply go. From this place of silence, I garner strength and inspiration to stand firm in the face of fire, to be calm in the midst of thunder. When I emerge, the world has not changed, but I have. And in changing, a whole new world is born.”

“I work out because that's my job, but what I enjoy about it, beyond the vanity, is the Zen of it. I like getting out of my head, and one great way to do that is to sweat your face off. And to know that, if you're thinking of anything else, you're not working intensely enough.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Enough Jobs Faces Enjoy Work Out Vanity Your Face Sweat

Author:Chris Pine

“If you go to a therapist, they say, 'Are you sure? How do you feel about your wrinkles?' And I say, 'I don't know, because I don't really see them.' I see my hands, but I don't see my face, so it's not a torment. I only see it for five minutes in the morning when I brush my teeth! When you read women's magazines you always read about this drama of getting old, about anti-aging cream and plastic surgery and whatever else. But I think if you're independent, like I have grown to be, it's welcome.”

“Of course, like any woman, I look in the mirror and think, 'Oh, wouldn't I look better with a bit of Botox?' But you've got to find comfort in your own skin. I've watched women stretch themselves year after year until their faces are no longer recognisable.”

Thinking Years Looks Faces Courses Bits Comfort Skins Mirrors Botox

Author:Amanda Donohoe

“Thinking back about throwing myself at certain gentlemen that had no interest in me, that'll bring a blush to my face if I think about it too often.”

Ifs Thinking Faces Certain Interest Gentleman Throwing

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“I think we've probably all read a word that we've never heard pronounced out loud, and we try it out in a sentence and fall on our face.”

Thinking Trying Faces Fall Heard Sentences Loud

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“I think thinking about becoming an adult, and having to face up to your problems and face up to your insecurities, is difficult for everybody.”

Thinking Problem Faces Difficult Becoming Adults Insecurity Becoming An Adult

Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead

“I think because I did become a well-known face in my thirties and not in my twenties, I was pretty settled in my boots and I knew who I was. And I think there's a sort of Scottish thing, too, where you don't take yourself too seriously, and you don't get carried away with your own sense of self-importance.”

Thinking Wells Self Faces Known Importance Twenties Boots Well Known Sense Of Self Scottish Carried Away Self-importance

Author:Ashley Jensen

“I think we should be proud of the fact that our face has got lines, because at least that means we have lived.”

Thinking Should Mean Facts Faces Lines Proud Be Proud

Author:Ashley Jensen

“I know what I look like. I'm not a babe who's automatically going to be the leading-lady type. I think I would always be cast as the friend. I probably tend to look crap more often than I look good. I like messing around and pulling funny faces and doing funny walks.”

Thinking Knows Looks Faces Walks Type Casts Crap Pulling Babe Leading Ladies Funny Face

Author:Ashley Jensen

“Life's so brief,” she goes on. “We're, at every juncture, staring mortality in the face. It's the very least we can do if we think it will be of any interest or value, to share the past. And although mine's been crooked, it's also been splendid. It's taught me to be vulnerable and humble, to write this book.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Book Past Faces Values Interest Can Do Share Mines Taught Goes On Humble Vulnerable Staring Mortality Splendid Crooked Juncture

Author:Kate Mulgrew

“I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, I could get used to this. And I just never stopped.”

Thinking Littles Self Remember Faces Used Parent Half Fronts Walking Crowds Applause Folding Walking Out

Author:Dallas Roberts

“I have a really adaptable face, but when I am just being me, people always think I am younger than I am.”

People Thinking Faces Just Being Being Me Adaptable Just Being Me

Author:Jessica Raine

“I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.”

People Thinking World Self Faces Emotional Moved Self Control

Author:Christopher Lee

“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

“I dont think you should give away your name and face to something you dont believe 100-percent in.”

Thinking Giving Should Believe Faces Names Percent

Author:Claudia Schiffer

“I don't think Indian actors are good. A couple of them are, like Anupam Kher, but not many are there like him in the industry. There are thousand of actors and actresses in the industry, but you can count on hand how many of them are really good; the rest of them are just pretty faces.”

Thinking Hands Faces Actors Industry Couple Thousand Actresses Indian Pretty Face Actors And Actresses

Author:Russell Peters

“Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart.”

Thinking May Sometimes Faces Half Smart

Book:The Thomas Sowell Reader

Source: The Thomas Sowell Reader

“I think that, just like the art scene and the music scene is exploding in LA - I mean, let's face it: if you want to be an artist you cannot live in New York anymore because it is too expensive…”

Ifs Thinking Want Mean Art Faces Artist New York Scene Expensive Exploding

Author:Jon Bernthal

“While we [people] keep putting a face on HIV and AIDS, I think what we forget is that there are human beings, just people with emotions and feelings, women who want to be loved, men who want to be loved, who want to feel something.”

People Thinking Men Want Feels Humans Feelings Faces Human Beings Forget Emotion Aids Hiv

Author:Queen Latifah

“Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her way and perhaps even self-doubt because there aren't that many who've gone before you. And I think that the most powerful tool we can have is to be clear about our intent. To know what it is we want to do rather than going into institutions thinking that the institution is going to frame for us.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Writing Self Faces Wish Deals Powerful Fiction Gone Clear Doubt Theory Intellectual Tools Institutions Discrimination Most Powerful Non Fiction Self-doubt

Author:Bell Hooks

“I think the best kind of comedy is the least self conscious. I think if you just sort of let the comedy happen without the elbow nudge, did you get it, did you get it. I love straight face comedy or subtle - relatively subtle comedy.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Self Happens Faces Comedy Conscious Subtle Self Conscious Elbows Nudge Straight Face

Author:Betty White

“Sex is pretty funny, let's face it. And the more seriously we take ourselves, the funnier sex gets, I think.”

Thinking Faces Sex

Author:Betty White

“I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes.”

Thinking Needs Faces Night Fall Scene Bed Okay Patterns Hallucinations

Author:Oliver Sacks

“I try not to go to sleep with makeup, because I think it clogs your pores. I always wash my face with something that contains salicylic acid.”

Thinking Trying Faces Sleep Makeup Acid Going To Sleep

Author:Joan Smalls

“I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.”

Thinking Faces Continuing

Author:Daphne Gottlieb

“It all stems from the same thing - which is that when we are face to face - and this is what I think is so ironic about Facebook being called Facebook, because we are not face to face on Facebook ... when we are face to face, we are inhibited by the presence of the other. We are inhibited from aggression by the presence of another face, another person. We're aware that we're with a human being. On the Internet, we are disinhibited from taking into full account that we are in the presence of another human being.”

Thinking Humans Persons Faces Human Beings Internet Accounts Ironic Aggression Stem Face To Face

Author:Sherry Turkle

“I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.”

Thinking Faces Humanity Study

Author:Kurt Busiek

“When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.”

Thinking Faces Humanity Consciousness Issues Solutions Fundamentals Cooperation Shifting

Author:Jeremy Gilley

“I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you're thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it.”

Ifs Thinking School Faces Used Teacher Drama Cameras Remembered Your Face Mantras

Author:Ruth Wilson

“If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Oh sure, it seems obvious now, but you'd be amazed at how many people don't think of it when it's relevant. Seriously, punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.”

People Ifs Thinking Heart Seems Faces Break Obvious Ice Relevant Cream Amazed Ice Cream Break Your Heart

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!”

Thinking Faces Secret Thoughtful Betray Facial Involuntary Keeping Secrets

Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays

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