Best wall & faces Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.”

People Feels Mean Past Faces Taken Wall Paid Destitute Nowhere To Go

Author:Alexander Lebed

“The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.”

People Feelings Faces Church Wall Purity Mecca

Author:Michael J. Fox

“The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what is empty turns its face to us and whispers: 'I am not empty, I am open'.”

Faces Turns Prayer Taken Sky Wall Empty Emptiness Detachment Numbness Airy

Book:The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems

Source: The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems

“They give me a shot and a handful of pills to swallow. I stare at the thin red wall of my inner eyelid and listen to my skin and I can't be sure how the medication is affecting me. I can't remember how I'm supposed to feel. I can't remember my name. I have never seen my face.”

Giving Feels I Can Remember Faces Names Wall Shots Red Skins Give Me Staring Emptiness Pills Handful Detachment Medication Numbness Eyelids

Author:Will Christopher Baer

“In my head I am in one of those Buddhist caves where you see a thousand Buddha faces on the wall. In my head I am on my seventeen-year-old acid trip, when I saw my personas fall one minute after another, as if I was dying every moment.”

Ifs Years Moments Faces Fall Saws Minutes Dying Wall Thousand Buddhist Caves Acid Persona Drunkenness Seventeen One Minute Seventeen Years Old Acid Trip

Author:Francesco Clemente

“A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students. He does not yet know that one day he will have to face himself as a solitary creature enclosed in a space of four walls... and that he will have to be a self-propelled being, with no one at is side.”

Ifs Knows Doe Art Self School Faces Young Sides Space Four Students Wall One Day Solitude Creatures Painter Solitary Art School Four Walls Art Students

Author:Pierre Alechinsky

“The days, the nights, flow one by one above us. The hours go silently over our lifted faces. We are like dreamers who walk beneath a sea. Beneath high walls we flow in the sun together. We sleep, we wake, we laugh, we pursue, we flee.”

Together Faces Night Hours Sleep Walks Laughing Sun Sea Wall Flow Pursue Dreamer

Book:The House of Dust: A Symphony

Source: The House of Dust: A Symphony

“I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke. You don't know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls without relief day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four without ease or interposition ... these pestilential clerk-faces always in one's dish. O for a few years between the grave and the desk!”

Source: The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works

“The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights.”

Art Light Faces Games Walks Wall Survival Your Face Elbows Glare Smile On Your Face

Author:Jean Chretien

“I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.”

Age Faces Common Four Wall Plenty Prisoner Sixty Four Walls

Author:Albert Kesselring

“Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.”

Looks Two Real Faces Three Evil Wall Reflection Fancy Visible Melancholy Imaginary Pencils Real Ones

Book:The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical

Source: The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical

“The rum fiend would like to go and hang up a skeleton in your beautiful house so that, when you opened the front door to go in, you would see it in the hall; and, when you sat at your table you would see it hanging from the wall; and, when you opened your bedroom you would find it stretched upon your pillow; and, waking at night, you would feel its cold hand passing over your face and pinching at your heart. There is no home so beautiful but it may be devastated by the awful curse.”

“Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass--an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India.”

Eye Faces Stuff Half Figures Wall Window India Glasses Hungry Naked Golden Chinese Iron Pale Sheets Guarded Tempting Hungry Eyes

Book:The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

Source: The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

“Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick or lava in courses, and then bind them to the fronts by means of iron clamps and lead. The beds and builds, all settling equally and bonded at the joints, will not let the work bulge out, nor allow the fall of the face walls which have been tightly fastened together.”

Mean Has Beens Made Two Together Faces Fall Courses Behinds Feet Fronts Wall Bed Red Stones Settling Dimensions Iron Thick Bricks Joints Lava

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“It is in bed that we learn to bear the inevitable. We are learning this all the time while we lie with our face turned to the wall thinking we are doing nothing.”

Thinking Faces Lying Wall Bears Bed Inevitable Doing Nothing

Book:What I Have Gathered

Source: What I Have Gathered

“A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman.”

Faces Social Wall Blank Antagonism

Author:Elizabeth Blackwell

“As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.”

May Soul Moments Faces Walks Ready Wall Standing Athlete Strikes Your Soul Uncertainty Accomplishment Finding Yourself Threshold

Book:The Courage To Start: A Guide To Running for Your Life

Source: The Courage To Start: A Guide To Running for Your Life

“I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs.”

Kind Home Would Be Wanted Faces My Own Rooms Wall Photograph Drawing Obsessed Couches

Author:Michelle Williams

“On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.”

Bigs Eye Faces Moving Brother Wall Opposites Enormous Lifts Ran Posters Landing Caption

Author:George Orwell

“Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.”

Children Faces Wall Window Guilty Companion Furniture Spit Rudeness

Author:Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

“My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.”

Faces Sound White Loneliness Expression Wall Solitude Music Is White Walls

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“There is another very important lesson: You must learn to be equipped to face your battles this year and be properly positioned on the wall. Pioneers will be challenged as they plow new ground, but I have new Body Armor I want to give you that will protect you in the days to come.”

Want Giving Years Important Body Faces Wall Lessons Battle Protect Pioneers Armor Protect You Important Lessons Days To Come

Author:Bob Hartley

“An interlude of false innocence has passed. Today, as we enter the post-photographic era, we must face once again the ineradicable fragility of our ontological distinctions between the imaginary and the real, and the tragic elusiveness of the Cartesian dream. We have indeed learnt to fix the shadows, but not to secure their meanings or to stabilize their truth values; they still flicker on the walls of Plato's cave.”

Stills Real Dream Today Faces Values Wall Shadow Secure Eras Posts Innocence Distinction Tragic Imaginary Plato Caves Fragility Flicker Plato S Elusiveness Plato's Cave

Author:William J. Mitchell

“When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.”

Knows Use Beautiful Faces Pieces Wall Woods Chests Drawers Best Job Carpenter Important Jobs Different Jobs Macintosh Ease Of Use

Author:Steve Jobs

“Her mother died at the age of 29, essentially turning her face to the wall and deciding to die. And so we can only imagine the agony she felt. And Eleanor Roosevelt really wanted to make her mother happier, and - and to make her live, you know, make her want to live. And there's something about, you know, when your mother dies, this sense of abandonment. I think Eleanor Roosevelt had a lifelong fear of abandonment and sense of abandonment after her parents' death.”

Thinking Knows Want Age Wanted Faces Mother Dies Felt Parent Imagine Wall Died Agony Abandonment Lifelong Eleanor Mother Died

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“If you look at Iraq and Afghanistan's situations, they are quickly becoming much like our reservations. They will have puppet governments funded and controlled by a U.S. Government that siphoned off their resources. You don't have to be an English major to read the writing on the wall; I am in here as a warning to others, just like those men who are in Guantanamo are a warning to others - if you stand up to us you face these same consequences.”

“I'd turn off the internet for a month and make us actually talk to each other, and be responsible for your opinions and not be able to hide behind the anonymity of the cyber-wall to speak your mind. To actually have to face people and see their reactions and discuss it - actually discuss it. It won't happen. Unless the grid goes down.”

People Mind Happens Able Faces Turns Speak Behinds Opinion Wall Months Internet Responsible Reactions Being Responsible Anonymity Turn Off Cyber Grids Speak Your Mind

Author:John Larroquette

“Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street.”

Ifs Needs Faces Streets Movement Wall Meetings Corporate Boards Your Face Assault Campus Headquarters Board Meetings

Author:Michael Moore

“You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.”

Faces Courses History Wall Portraits Don't Change

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.”

Faces Form Social Situation Support Loneliness Wall Leaving Painful Blank Physicians Antagonism

Author:Elizabeth Blackwell

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