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"And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face."
"Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily be mistaken for ferocity."
"Climate change...is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family."
"Any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things"
"To heal my wounds, I need to be brave enough to face them."
"Love lasts because it changes and not because it stays the same and never faces any challenges."
"The question that faces the strategic decision maker is not what his organisation should do tomorrow. It is, what do we have to do today to be ready for an uncertain tomorrow?"
"When they face desperation... human beings become animals."
"And I fell violently on my face."
"Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark."
"I don't eat bread.' Is she pouting? It's hard to tell. She's had a lot of chemicals injected into her face."
"Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision."
"The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall."
"Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life."
"In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone."
"I face every project the same way - do it right and give 110%. 100% isn't good enough."
"Face up to those areas that are weak in your life and seek to make them strong."
"Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people."
"He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God."
"Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face."
