Quotes with false-face

Quotes 421 till 440 of 504.

  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Tis good nature only wins the heart It moulds the body to an easy grace And brightens every feature of the face; It smoothes th' unpolish'd tongue with eloquence And adds persuasion to the finest sense.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • C. V. Raman To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water. The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.
    C. V. Raman
    Indian physicist (1888 - 1970)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Carlos Ghosn To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • David Viscott To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.
    David Viscott
    American writer, teacher (1938 - 1996)
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  • Ruth Gordon To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never - I repeat - never under any conditions face the facts.
    Ruth Gordon
    American actress (1896 - 1985)
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  • Victor Hugo To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • William Shakespeare To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day: thou canst not then be false to any man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • John Berger Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why - but the editorialists forget it - terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Virginia Woolf Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Thomas Hobbes True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.
    Leviathan (1651)
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Campbell Brown Trump doesn't force the networks to show his rallies live rather than do real reporting. Nor does he force anyone to accept his phone calls rather than demand that he do a face-to-face interview that would be a greater risk for him.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Virgil Trust not too much to an enchanting face.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • James Russell Lowell Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Callimachus Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore;
    The Muses are ten, the Graces are four;
    Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face;
    She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.
    Epigrams Epigram 5; translation by Jonathan Swift, cited fr
    Callimachus
    Ancient Greek poet, critic and scholar
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  • Bell Hooks Usually, when people talk about the strength of black women.... they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Bill Bixby Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'.
    Bill Bixby
    American actor, director and producer (1934 - 1993)
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  • Bill Hybels Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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