Physiognomists Quotes & Sayings

I want to get away from the stigma they all clearly feel just because they have an illness of the mind as opposed to, say, an illness of the lungs or blood. I want to get away from all the labels. "I'm OCD," "I'm depressed," "I'm a cutter," they say, like these are the things that define them. — Jennifer Niven

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice. — Lewis Carroll

Part of what we want to do with the Heroic Imagination Project is to get kids to think about what it means to be a hero. The most basic concept of a hero is socially constructed: It differs from culture to culture and changes over time. Think of Christopher Columbus. Until recently, he was a hero. Now he's a genocidal murderer! If he were alive today, he'd say, What happened? I used to be a hero, and now people are throwing tomatoes at me! — Philip Zimbardo

He's dangerous because when God talks to him Bob will do whatever God asks him to do at great cost, even if no one agrees, if it's contrary to the way the stream is going, if Bob feels God is in it he will do it. — Bill Hybels

Sometimes because a woman is beautiful, she's not encouraged to be more, although she may have so much more to offer. — Susan Anton

Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait. — C. A. Bartol

The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere. — Geoff Dyer

But the thing I notice most isn't what's in them - surprise, disbelief, curiosity, maybe a little pity - it's what's not. Judgment. Disdain. Horror. None of the things I've so often seen in people's eyes when I've had to tell them my story.
Now I want to kiss her even more. — M. Leighton

This is a place we don't have to lie. — Alexandra Bracken

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what's been on your mind so you can think about what you've been thinking about. — Joyce Meyer

He's come a long way, but he's still never accepted that he's forgiven. — Mary Jane Hathaway

His countenance possessed in the highest degree what physiognomists call "repose in action," a quality of those who act rather than talk. — Jules Verne

You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not condemn the cult of pleasure; I lament the general vulgarity. — Octavio Paz

On Mir, the lights kept going out because it had developed so many electrical problems. — Helen Sharman

Empowered Women 101: Everyone wants to be a princess, but you weren't the first princess in his life. They scrubbed his floors, washed his workout clothes, picked up his dirty socks and dealt with his issues. Always remember that history leaves a pattern of what to expect. A real woman knows that the bible is a motivator, but the real instruction manual is observing the last woman's struggle. — Shannon L. Alder

If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made. — Zadie Smith

The thing is, sometimes you have to be brave and say who you are and how you feel. Even if you don't know how you're going to do it. You just have to take a deep breath, and decide to start. — Abigail Tarttelin

We are all of us more or less active physiognomists. — Henry David Thoreau