Faces Quotations | Page 3

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

The big challenge our society faces is that we live in an increasingly open world with increasingly closed communities. This is also due to the evolution of the Internet, where people only read things that won't challenge their beliefs.

You can point any kind of laser at my face, but I don't think Botox is for me. I think it is bad. People who have too much, they look like their faces are full of candles - a shiny, shiny face.

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.

You have the wookie character, which is one of the biggest aliens in 'Defiance.' These guys are just walking about with these mechanical faces on, and it actually looks insane. The amount of diversity of all the aliens in the town is quite unbelievable.

People in all walks of life, and especially business, do not want to experience the collapse of cities like New York along with global finance and economy in chaos, but this is what business faces if we continue to attribute climate change to fossil fuels alone.

I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.

I just want my music to be put out there, not shoved in peoples faces. I want to keep it relaxed.

We live in a time today where we face fierce global competition.

I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control.

My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird': You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face.

I know how to play comedy when it's needed. So even when it's really not there, my facial expressions are really great. I have a lot of facial expressions in my face, you know.

God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.

Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.

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

Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.

My mom didn't use face cream, like, nothing at all. She's got great skin and looks very youthful.

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.

My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.

We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

Because Naughty Dog relies on their facial team to hand animate the faces of each game character and they do such a remarkable job, I think you can be more realistic with your acting. It gives the story and what's happening to you the feeling that it's a game.

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.

I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated.

And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons.

If a liberal News channel were launched it would fall flat on its face.

In any country when you throw something in somebody's face, it's disrespectful.

I can't wait til I get the chance to be a character and how my face looks isn't the first consideration.

Injury taught me I need to learn how to face challenges.

One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

My mom calls me 'baby face.' It's very embarrassing.

The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.

To experience life you have to kind of face a lot of fears.

People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.

I think one of the main challenges that the World Bank faces is creating an organizational structure that doesn't get in the way of its staff. We have fantastic staff. People told me as I was coming into the organization that the greatest asset of the World Bank Group is its staff, and I think there's no question that that's the case.

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

I am not interested in being a Barbie doll and turning myself into a sausage for the next 20 years. I want to follow actresses like Helen Mirren and Judi Dench who have lines on their faces and aren't afraid of playing their age.

In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.

In a way, by being fully committed to the Olympic movement globally, I'm better able to promote women's hockey and talk about women's hockey and put a face to women's hockey, to all the IOC members.

The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo Park.' Then the Faces just had 'Stay with Me.' So both bands could be considered one-hit wonders in America, even though we had several huge hits in England.

The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.

Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.

I am not sure precisely why we need to have privacy, but everyone knows for sure that we need to relax and not have to put on our social, outwardly looking face all of the time.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center.

Let's face it I am not Joan Collins or Boy George.

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

I'll say this, and this has nothing to do with gender or sexuality: You do not want to get licked in the face repeatedly by another human being. You just don't. It's not pleasant.

Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why.

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it

Now, no matter what background you come from, there is nobody in this world who can say that their life is without troubles. Everybody faces problems at some point in their life. All that matters is how you deal with it.

Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

Let's face it: Russell Crowe is fat and no one ever talks about it.

But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.

The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.

Supergirl is such an iconic brand, and for me to be able to be the new face of it is extremely exciting.

I am often lost in my own world, with a frown on my face.

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

Let's face it, the Obama administration was handed a pretty poor deal from the previous administration.

There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces.

I don't get facials. The last time I got a facial was when I first started modeling when I was 15 or 16. It made my face completely break out.

At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.

Remember the movie 'The Matrix,' where virtual information popped up to help inform physical day-to-day reality? Such things won't always be the stuff of Hollywood. If the Internet is accessible via contact lenses, biographies will appear next to the faces of the people we talk to, and we will see subtitles if they speak a foreign language.

Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.

The Manchurian Candidate was the most important movie I was in, let's face it.

When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again

I can promote until I am blue in the face, but ultimately nobody knows what makes a hit.

Be true to yourself, know that your are more than your face and body, and keep God first.

There was so much great music around in the 60s, stuff like The Small Faces, but I also love The Jam.

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.

I like tattoos. I'm gonna be covered. I'm not going to touch my face or under the chin on the neck: it's my least favorite place.

What I'm seeing is a generation that says consistently, 'I would rather text than make a telephone call.' Why? It's less risky. I can just get the information out there. I don't have to get all involved; it's more efficient. I would rather text than see somebody face to face.

Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.

Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.

I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to; something that reflects our times and the kinds of difficulties we face.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.

I love performing in front of an audience and seeing smiles on the kids' faces.

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.

While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.

In Hollywood, for me, it's all about the movie stars and the singers. Baseball players don't draw too much attention; we're low key. I'm good with faces and sometimes bad with names, but I'll walk up to somebody if I know who they are... show them some love.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy surface of a pond that shows our faces radiant with joy or contorted with pain.

American healthcare faces a crisis in quality. There is a dangerous divide between the potential for the high level of quality care that our health system promises and the uneven quality that it actually delivers.