![[Richard Avedon's] camera dwells on the horrible things that age can do to people's faces - on the flabby flesh, the slack skin, the ugly growths, the puffy eyes, the knotted necks, the aimless wrinkles, the fearful and anxious set of the mouth, the marks left by sickness, madness, alcoholism, and irreversible disappointment.](/assets/img/quote-photos/richard-avedons-camera-dwells-on-the-horrible-things-that-age-can-do-to-people.jpg)
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disappointment victory advancement
There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject to no disappointments, since he that perseveres, makes every difficulty an advancement, and every contest a victory; and this is the pursuit of virtue. Charles Caleb Colton
disappointment choices discouragement
Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make. Charles Stanley
disappointment choices discouraged
Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.
disappointment optimistic choices
Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.
disappointment opportunity thinking
I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience. Al Pacino
disappointment believe confusion
A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying. Aiden Wilson Tozer
disappointment golf broken
Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic. Earl Wilson
disappointment writing thinking
Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the Universe. The principle of perpetual disappointment. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again. Athol Fugard
disappointment eye heart
He would say, "How funny it will all seem, all you've gone through, when I'm not here anymore, when you no longer feel my arms around your shoulders, nor my heart beneath you, nor this mouth on your eyes, because I will have to go away some day, far away..." And in that instant I could feel myself with him gone, dizzy with fear, sinking down into the most horrible blackness: into death. Arthur Rimbaud
eye exercise cry
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. Charles Dickens
eye home dark
Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.
eye numbers envy
As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of envy, notwithstanding their number, ought not to wound our virtue by reason of their insignificance.
eye men thinking
I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.
eye hands evil
But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless.
eye hypocrisy shining
[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
eye mad black
An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror.
eye light skins
With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing.
eye way poverty
When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.
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I'm going to have wrinkles really soon Cher
wrinkles noses conscious
He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose. Benjamin Franklin
wrinkles want stranger
I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead. Clark Gable
wrinkles people
People say, 'I love my wrinkles.' I don't love my wrinkles - come on! Brooke Shields
wrinkles pretty-woman pretty-words
Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die. Charles Bukowski
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If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places. Andrew Mason
wrinkles hair gray
I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair. Alber Elbaz
wrinkles envy age
Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. Thomas Browne
wrinkles hair age
My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense. Tig Notaro