Quotes of: Face-value Keyword

If we took Chaucer's writings at face value, we'd have to conclude he was a complete drip.

John Hutton

I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.

Edward G. Robinson

. . . the only way to tell off an asshole was face-to-face and to look fantastic doing it. So, here she was, with perfect makeup, hair done in a riot of waves that had taken a ridiculously long time to create, and a brand new dress laid out on her be...

The Value of Vulnerability

Don't become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause a declination of value and reputation. Create value, through scarcity.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Producers generally don't like me; directors do, generally. Convincing the producers is hard. They can't see the commercial value behind such a face, nor would they get a commercial value, necessarily - and I don't mean that in a good way or a bad wa...

Amanda Plummer

I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.

Will Grayson, Will Grayson

The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent.

William A. Dembski

Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence—love of truth displaying itself in the constant endeavor to arrive at a more exact knowledge of the world of mind and matter around us, and reverence, becau...

Where is Science Going?

A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.

Christopher McQuarrie

The ability to discuss things was still the most highly valued commodity in the Soviet Union.

The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.

Mindy Kaling

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

Laura Dern

The cosmic perspective not only embraces our genetic kinship with all life on Earth but also values our chemical kinship with any yet-to-be discovered life in the universe, as well as our atomic kinship with the universe itself.

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

I don't take anything at face value. I always look for the reasons people are the way they are.

Leslie Mann

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

Jessica Savitch

If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.

Christopher Meloni

People strive hardest to save face, when the beauty they value is solely extrinsic.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value.

Joyce Rachelle

There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less government, and maintain the traditions of society (at least in America's case). However, ...

Slavoj Zizek

We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy.

Chris Hardwick

Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child’s entire sense of value can revolve around what they see in your face when you first see them?

Single Dad Laughing