It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.
Every person faces their own unique challenges and you may not always know what others around you are going through.
God is a creed outworn, Ill-wrought from a mirage fair, And life is an image pale That faces a sunless morn.
I've known people whose faces rested naturally in a smile and I'm certain their lives were much different because of that.
There is an icy window before every man! Faces cannot be seen clearly! Wait for the ice to melt down!
Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike. Faces, though, can be quite different and a damn sight more interesting!
Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.
I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.
When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.
No wonder the tulip is the patron flower of Holland. Looking at it one almost smells fresh paint laid on in generous brilliance: doors, blinds, whole houses, canal boats, pails, farm wagons - all painted in greens, blues, reds, pinks, yellows.
If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?'
Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.
I could look in everyone's faces and see them reflecting on how much time has passed and all the things we went through.
I don't look like the way we've painted directors in our movies and everything since forever. I don't look like an old white guy in a baseball cap. So, yes, there are always moments when people are surprised that I'm the director.
Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light.
Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.
Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.
I had no intention of becoming a comedian. I just wanted to make people happy. I tried everything-I shucked oysters, I painted houses, I sold vacuum cleaners. But there was always a voice saying, You should be doing something different. And it was usually my boss and I was being fired.
I have lots of memories of Zeppelin. And I know the joy it gives fans when I tell them stories. I see their faces light up.
Broken marriages, conflicts of loyalty, the problems of everyday life fall away as one faces up to [Jeff] Thomson.
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.
There is nothing more satisfying to me than seeing people who eat my food have smiles on their faces. It makes the experience special.
Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.
Did you know - and studies prove this - that 98 percent of all the Visine in this country runs down the side of people's faces?
The world faces enormous human development and environmental challenges, from poverty and disease to food security and climate change.
you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.
I'm mortified when I see 20-year-old girls changing the shapes of their faces or plumping their lips out or their cheeks.
You should never protest outside a rich guy's home during the day because he's not there. He's at work grinding the faces of the poor.
We need to have a conversation about the fact that black faces are not as visible as they should be, that there is huge inequality everywhere in terms of race.
In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.
I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers.
I wanted to restore an ancient house in Kent, and that's what I did. It was a heap - this Tudor building with the beams painted lime green, so hideous. And I had this idea that I'd love the small village life, with the Range Rover and the dogs and baking cookies for the Y.W.C.A. But then it got so boring.
Edward helped, making faces every so often at the raw ingredients-human food was mildly repulsive to him.
Be aware of the high notes,
Of the blissful faces and their soft messages,
And listen for the silent message
Of a highly decorated gift.
Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.
There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.
Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils.
I had been playing beach volleyball all day, painted my nails red, and threw on a green dress. I thought I looked great at the time, but looking back, I realize that my debut into Monaco society should have been better executed!
I like the man, who faces what he must, with steps triumphant and a heart of cheer; who fights the daily battle without fear.
'MaerskKendal' is a rarity with its British flag, the 'LONDON' home port painted on its bow, its two British chief officers, and its portrait of the queen in the mess room, apparently common courtesy on British ships, but a little alarming to me.
He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.
The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has not been conceived, even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has not yet been discovered.
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
To see the faces and hear the voices of victims of the Holocaust - one of the darkest chapters in history - was an experience I will never forget.
Hail, blest Confusion! here are met
All tongues, and times, and faces;
The Lancers flirt with Juliet,
The Brahmin talks of races.
Most of those men don’t want to sleep with you,” he said in blunt rebuttal. “I reserve the right to introduce my fist to the faces of the ones who do.
The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green grass carpet, the magnanimity of souls, the loftiness of minds, the depth of love - all these things remind us of a God who is beautiful and noble.
Movies would be like a broad painted canvas... or a mystical process which cannot really be explained, like, 'What is electricity?' Along with the images that go on the screen, there's a corridor of dialogue that can happen through motion pictures, whether you're aware of it or not.
Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
I wanted a Gibson type sound, but with a Strat vibrato ... I bought a body from Charvel for $50.00 and a neck for $80.00 - I slapped it together, put an old Gibson PAF in it and painted it up with the stripes
For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.
Mixed martial arts has small windows of opportunity and there's always new faces coming through, so it's easy to forget you.
A perfect smile is too often missing from the faces of the world. If cricket can provide more smiles, it is doing its job.
The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.
The fact of the matter is that the United States faces real threats from criminals, terrorists, spies, and malicious cyber actors.
Many of the problems the world faces today are the eventual result of short-term measures taken last century.
An age is the reversal of an age:
When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone,
We lived like men that watch a painted stage.
What matter for the scene, the scene once gone:
It had not touched our lives.
I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it's kind of selfish, I want a future audience.
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.
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