He stepped toward her, and her heart just ached from it. His face was so handsome, and so dear, and so perfectly wonderfully familiar. She knew the slope of his cheeks, and the exact shade of his eys, brownish near the iris, melting into green at the edge. And his mouth-she knew that mouth, the look of it, the feel of it. She knew his smile, and she knew his frown, and she knew- she knew far to much.
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.
If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.
The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
Then Aragorn stooped and looked in her face, and it was indeed white as a lily, cold as frost, and hard as graven stone. But he bent and kissed her on the brow, and called her softly, saying: 'Éowyn Éomund's daughter, awake! For your enemy has passed away!' - Aragorn & Éowyn
. . . the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.
So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not wholly absorbed into the social one is turned over to hygiene. In being seen as no more than the exit of a living creature from the social combine, death has been domesticated: dying merely confirms the absolute irrelevance of the natural organism in face of the social absolute.
There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat.
Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
Every business will face tough times.
Sunblock! I don't like to tan my face because it's bad for wrinkles.
Who is going to be the first to face up to the need for self-restraint in the number of children brought into the world?
Young people often serve as scapegoats for the challenges communities face. At the same time, they are routinely pushed away from connecting to their communities as serious problem-solvers capable of changing the world.
A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.
Socialism with a human face.
If you haven't done your mental homework in training, you don't have anything to fall back on when you face.
What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.
There's plenty of rude stuff online. People say things online that they would be ashamed to say face to face. If people could treat others as though they were speaking face to face, that would be huge.
I'm jealous of your hooks," Kevin replied. "Having no hands is better than having two equally strong hands. " Don't be ridiculous," one of the white-faced women replied. "Having a white face is worse than both of your situations. " But you have a white face because you put makeup on," Colette said, as Sunny climbed back out of the trunk and knelt down in the snow. "You're putting powder on your face right now.
His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield.