Best mark & faces Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.”

Men Feels Self Pain Faces Bears Mark Shame Pity Scorn Disgrace Disdain Blushing Bashful

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Laughter in the face of danger is a mark of courage.”

Faces Danger Laughter Mark

Book:Interred with Their Bones

Source: Interred with Their Bones

“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.”

“Monarchy can easily be "debunked," but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film stars instead: For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.”

“Yellow Face marks my summation of multiculturalism.”

Faces Mark Yellow Multiculturalism

Author:David Henry Hwang

“I love women who are bosses and who don't constantly worry about what their employees think of them. I love women who don't ask, "Is that OK?" after everything they say. I love when women are courageous in the face of unthinkable circumstances, like my mother when she was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. Or like Gabrielle Giffords writing editorials for the New York Times about the cowardice of Congress regarding gun laws and using phrases like "mark my words" like she is Clint Eastwood. How many women say stuff like that?”

“I'm the king of the world, I am the greatest, I'm Muhammed Ali, I shook up the world, I am the greatest, I'm king of the world, I'm pretty, I'm pretty, I'm a baaaad man, you heard me I'm a baaad man, Archie Moore fell in four, Liston wanted me more, so since he's so great, I'm a make him fall in eight, I'm a baaad man, I'm king of the world! I'm 22 years old and ain't gotta mark on my face, I'm pretty, I easily survived six rounds with that ugly bear, because I am the greatest.”

Men World Years Wanted Faces Fall Four Heard Bears Kings Six Mark Rounds Ugly Eight Survived

Author:Muhammad Ali

“[Richard Avedon's] camera dwells on the horrible things that age can do to people's faces - on the flabby flesh, the slack skin, the ugly growths, the puffy eyes, the knotted necks, the aimless wrinkles, the fearful and anxious set of the mouth, the marks left by sickness, madness, alcoholism, and irreversible disappointment.”

People Eye Age Faces Left Growth Can Do Mouths Skins Madness Mark Cameras Disappointment Ugly Flesh Horrible Necks Sickness Anxious Fearful Alcoholism Wrinkles Horrible Things Irreversible

Author:Janet Malcolm

“It's so not sexy and intimate. There are 40 people in the room. There's a guy with his belly hanging out, with a boom in your face. It's really very technical. I think doing a love scene is tougher than doing a fight scene. It's so staged and you can't put light on her face and you have to hit the mark.”

People Thinking Light Faces Guy Fighting Rooms Scene Mark Sexy Intimate Hanging Out Your Face Belly

Author:Boris Kodjoe

“The interesting scope of Mark Twain's development as a human being is that he grew. He saw, he travelled, he studied this country and later the world with the eye of a man educating himself. This is a central fact in the Mark Twain legacy. He became an American spokesman for the ideals of racial equality and dignity for the working man because he was willing to look the world in its face and see, really see what was happening to the people in it.”

People Men World Humans Looks Country Facts Eye Faces Human Beings Interesting Saws Willing Grew Development Happenings Ideals Dignity Mark Legacy Scope Working Man Racial Equality

Author:Hal Holbrook

“This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.”

Men Faces Trouble Mark Admiration Admirable Steadfastness

Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.”

Eye Faces Effort Mark Wicked Worthless

Book:Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays

Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays

“I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face,I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine.”

“It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.”

Looks Pain Faces Strange Mark Like Family

Book:Coffey's Hands

Source: Coffey's Hands

“There's a terrible stillness. I notice a small tear in the wallpaper above her shoulder. I notice finger marks grimed on the light switch. Somewhere down in the house, a door opens and shuts. As Zoey turns to face me, I realize that life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey to the end.”

Made Ends Moments Light Faces Life Is Turns House Realizing Doors Journey Tears Terrible Mark Series Fingers Shoulders Stillness

Author:Jenny Downham

“A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.”

Men Feels Two Different Seems Faces Ideals Mark His Love Different Faces

Book:The Death Of The Heart

Source: The Death Of The Heart

“My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.' I know that. It's on your face, son. Like a scar.' Eddie was fascinated by the idea of duty and ka as something that left a mark, something that might look like decoration to one eye and disfigurement to another. Outside, thunder cracked and lightning flashed.”

Source: The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

“It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.”

People Different Stories Faces Mark Neighbor Cattle

Author:Chinua Achebe

“When you remember me, it means you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are. It means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us. It means that if we meet again, you will know me. It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart.”

Ifs Knows Years Mind Heart May Mean Stills Remember Faces Dies Left Speak Voice Mark Who You Are Miles Who I Am Know Me Remember Me

Author:Frederick Buechner

“Who are you?' Mo looked at the White Women. Then he looked at Dustfinger's still face. Guess.' The bird ruffled up its golden feathers, and Mo saw that the mark on its breast was blood. You are Death.' Mo felt the word heavy on his tongue. Could any word be heavier?”

Stills Faces Felt White Saws Blood Bird Mark Heavy Tongue Golden Breasts Feathers Dustfinger

Book:Inkdeath

Source: Inkdeath

“Whatcha doin', Freak Girl?" --------------------------- "What does it look like, brainiac?" I shot back, even surprising myself with the force of my jab. "I'll give you three guesses. No, wait. Don't strain yourself. Wouldn't want to hurt your head." I waved a flyer in his face, channeling my inner mean girl. "See these? I'm hanging them...on a...wall!" I spoke the last part slowly, as if addressing a dim-witted child. Which wasn't far off the mark, now that I thought about it. "With tape," I added, waving at the dispenser. "You know-sticky, sticky!”

Ifs Knows Want Giving Looks Mean Children Doe Lasts Faces Girl Three Force Waiting Hurt Wall Shots Mark Spokes Freak Surprising Tape Strain Channeling Sticky Mean Girls Flyers

Author:Mari Mancusi

“[Fireheart] was interrupted by a screech from Cloudtail. "Fireheart! Fireheart, Brightpaw isn't dead!" Fireheart spun around and raced across the clearing to crouch beside Brightpaw. Her white-and-ginger fur, which, she had always kept so neatly groomed, was spiky with drying blood. On one side of her face the fur was torn away, and there was blood where her eye should have been. One ear had been shredded, and there were huge claw marks scored across her muzzle.”

Should Has Beens Eye Faces Sides White Blood Huge Should Have Ears Mark Her Eyes Torn Should Have Been Fur Interrupted Claws Clearing Spun Ginger Muzzle

Author:Erin Hunter

“I know Mark,' I reply. 'And I don't like him.' 'But I do. And part of being social means being civil to someone you don't like.' 'That's stupid. It's a huge world. why not just get up and walk away?' 'Because that's rude,' Jess explains. 'I think it's rude to stick a smile on your face and pretend you like talking to someone when in reality you'd rather be sticking bamboo slivers under your fingernails.”

Thinking Knows World Mean Reality Faces Social Walks Talking Stupid Huge Mark Sticks Get Up Why Not Your Face Rude Fingernails Smile On Your Face Bamboo Talking To Someone

Author:Jodi Picoult

“I'm sorry about your face." Jamie looked over his shoulder, and touched the demon's mark crawling along his jaw with the back of his hand. "Sorry about saving all our lives by doing something you had to do?" "Oh no," Nick said blandly. "I just meant, you know. Generally.”

Knows Said Hands Faces Our Lives Mark Sorry Shoulders Saving Demon Touched Live By Your Face I'm Sorry Crawling Jamie

Author:Sarah Rees Brennan

“Later, going home, I realized they didn't look alike at all; what made them seem to was the aftermath of stress and the lingering of sorrow. It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.”

Looks Made Home Seems Pain Faces Strange Sorrow Stress Mark I Realized Aftermath Lingering Going Home Like Family

Book:Coffey's Hands

Source: Coffey's Hands

“Did you fall in love with her?" "I care about her. A lot." "You're not supposed to marry someone if you don't fall in love with her." "Well, love is a choice, too." Holly shook her head. "I think it's something that happens to you." Mark smiled into her small, earnest face. "Maybe it's both," he said, and tucked her in.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Said Happens Care Faces Choices Fall Love Is Mark Falling In Love I Care Earnest Hollies Don't Fall In Love

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear. How the Chimney-sweeper's cry Every black'ning Church appalls; And the hapless Soldier's sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls. But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.”

Source: Poems: Introduction by Patti Smith

“Come on! Don't hold back," Christian said. "I'm not, " Lissa protested. "You are too! I've seen you knock on a door harder than you're hitting me. " "That's a ridiculous metaphor. " "And, " he added, "you aren't aiming for my face. " "I don't want to leave a mark!" "Well, at the rate we're going, there's no danger of that, " he muttered”

Want Wells Said Christian Faces Doors Danger Harder Mark Rate Metaphor Ridiculous Hitting Christian Ozera

Author:Richelle Mead

“During the fire: 'Some of the drunker ones don't move. Some of them laugh. One person says, "Where's the marshmallows?" Mark slaps him across the face. "GET OUT!" he screams.”

Persons Faces Moving Laughing Fire Mark Scream Slap Marshmallow

Author:Pittacus Lore

“I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared.”

May Stills Country Past Faces Suffering Changed Particular All Things Mark Witness Preserves Footsteps Pillars Relics Valve

Author:Anne Bronte

“He gazed amusedly down the table at Tessa. “You’re the shape-changer, aren’t you?” he said. “Magnus Bane told me about you. No mark on you at all, they say.” Tessa swallowed and looked him straight in the eye. They were discordantly human eyes, ordinary in his extraordinary face. “No. No mark.” He grinned around his fork. “I do suppose they’ve looked everywhere?” “I’m sure Will’s tried,” said Jessamine in a bored tone.”

Humans Said Eye Faces Shapes Ordinary Mark Tables Extraordinary Bored Tone Forks Magnus Bane Bane Human Eyes

Author:Cassandra Clare

“The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of a dog, the mess of the world, and I see - this, all this, is what the French call d'un beau affreux, what the Germans call hubsch-hasslich - the ugly-beautiful. That which is perceived as ugly transfigures into beautiful. What the postimpressionist painter Paul Gauguin expressed as 'Le laid peut etre beau' - The ugly can be beautiful. The dark can give birth to life; suffering can deliver grace.”

Men World Giving Beautiful Faces Suffering Girl Dark Grace Dog Birth Mark Ugly Legs Teeth Painter Mess Wheelchairs

Author:Ann Voskamp

“Don't you ever touch my car again," Santangelo says with the same fury he had on his face when Jonah Griggs made comments about his mother. Raffy touches the car with her finger in a very dramatic way. "You've just made our hit list," he says, getting a hanky out of his pocket and cleaning off some imaginary mark.”

Way Made Faces Mother Car Mark Fingers Lists Dramatic Pockets Comment Imaginary Cleaning Fury Jonah Jonah Griggs

Author:Melina Marchetta

“It’s all right,” she said. “You’re through.” “Jesus,” he finally managed, pushing water off his face. “Jesus Christ and John the Baptist. For that matter, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John.” Still not enough. He needed to reach back to the Old Testament for this. “Obadiah. Nebuchadnezzar. Methuselah and Job.” “Be calm,” she said, taking him by the shoulders. “Be calm. And there are women in the Bible, you know.” “Yes. As I recall it, they were trouble, every last one.”

“I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now...if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.”

Ifs Knows Hard Facts Faces Asks Communication Periods Mark Loved Ones One Sided Question Mark

Book:The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent specific distinction, and it features conspicuously both in attacking behaviour, when the birds face each other and grip beaks, and also in courtship, when food is passed from the beak of the male to the beak of the female. Hence though the beak differences are primarily correlated with differences in food, secondarily they serve as specific recognition marks, and the birds have evolved behaviour patterns to this end.”

Source: Darwin's Finches

“Peppercorn is black and so is the beauty mark of the moon-faces -both rend the heart, yet between them lie enormous spaces”

Heart Soul Faces Lying Black Space Moon Mark Enormous

Author:Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

“The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand.”

Way Real Hands Faces Natural Vision Expression India Mark Creator Indian Mask Veils Unnatural Indian Culture

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“At first it was a bit strange and daunting to have to wear a mask, but afterwards I came to enjoy it. In warm conditions, though, it started to slip off my face. Other times they used this double-sided sticky tape, and I literally couldn't get it off my face. I would feel like I was ripping my face off and I had a lot of cuts and bruises because of it-huge red marks. People might think it was method acting.”

People Thinking Feels Firsts Might Faces Used Bits Enjoy Acting Cutting Conditions Strange Huge Red Mark Method Warm Mask Slips Tape Bruises Sticky Method Acting Cuts And Bruises

Author:Gerard Butler

“Age is as much an asset for character players as it is for good wine. Human experiences, both good and bad, leave their marks on one's face and bearing. A few lines on the face and a few gray hairs coupled with the idiosyncrasies an actor adopts throughout life help out round out the actor's personality. So far as I'm concerned, the older a character actor gets, the firmer his position is.”

“I know a girl, she been married so many times, she got rice marks all over her face”

Knows Faces Girl Married Mark Rice

Author:Tom Waits

“The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.”

Ifs Long Faces Felt Black Lines Wind Spring Singing Bird Mark Lays Gray Shed Springtime Dullness

Book:Wayfaring Stranger

Source: Wayfaring Stranger

“When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.”

Men Seems Running Faces Adventure Terrible Succeed Mark Bravery Brave Noble Running Away Brave Man Disgraceful

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn't it be better to wait until things clear up a bit? You know the prose: "Maintain buying reserves until current uncertainties are resolved," etc. Before reaching for that crutch, face up to two unpleasant facts: The future is never clear and you pay a very high price for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.”

“I knew I had him in the first round. Almighty God was with me. I want everyone to bear witness, I am the greatest! I'm the greatest thing that ever lived. I don't have a mark on my face, and I upset Sonny Liston, and I just turned twenty-two years old. I must be the greatest. I showed the world. I talk to God everyday. I know the real God. I shook up the world, I'm the king of the world. You must listen to me. I am the greatest! I can't be beat!”

Knows World Want Years Firsts I Can Two Real Faces Bears Kings Beats Mark Twenties Everyday Rounds Witness Upset Boxing Two Years Almighty Listen To Me Almighty God Two Year Olds Twenty Two

Author:Muhammad Ali

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