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"If in coming face to face with God we accept Him in our lives, then we are converting. We become a better Hindu, a better Muslim, a better Catholic, a better whatever we are. ... What God is in your mind you must accept."
"I tried to be strong in the face of obstacles."
"Sam and Caine were left standing side by side, bruised and battered, to stare over Penny's sickening corpse, at the face of their mother."
"My brain . . . it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, 'You're a failure' . . . I think that's almost worse than death."
"On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it."
"And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor."
"I face my future peacefully and calmly because I know I am enough"
"The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction. You can scrap a painting of someone's face and it imperils the sitter's self-esteem less than scrapping a painting of the whole naked body."
"Though Duty's face is stern, her path is best: They sweetly sleep who die upon her breast."
