Quotes 301 till 320 of 395.
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The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.
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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.
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The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.
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The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.
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The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.
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The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen.
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The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
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The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.
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The street's alive as secret debts are paid,
Contacts made, they vanished unseen.
Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades
Hustling for the record machine.
The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands
That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.Source: Born To Run (1975) Jungleland -
The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.
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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
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There was no corn - in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; They weighed it in small scales - and many a face was fixed in eager horror then; his gold the miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
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They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
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