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"Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision ... we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions."
"Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face."
"Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart?"
"To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself."
"There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations."
"Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself."
"The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence."
"The person I enjoyed interviewing the most was Elmo from Sesame Street because he is so unpredictable and he is always eating my hair and my face."
"Her smile steps offstage for a moment, then does an encore, all while I'm dealing with my blushing face."
"It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved."
"The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space."
"Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else."
"Sin is a clenched fist and a blow in the face of God."
"The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid."
"One may not eat what has a face."
"What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?"
"New faces have more authority than accustomed ones."
"The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them."
"The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous."
"Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart."
