Looking Quotes (page 145)

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• heart
• past
• shine

Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. What I’ve up till now, what I’m going to do — they know it all. Nothing gets past their watchful eyes. As I sit there under the shining night sky, again a violent fear takes hold of me. My heart’s pounding a mile a minute, and I can barely breathe. All these millions of stars looking down on me, and I’ve never given them more than a passing thought before. Not just the stars... Haruki Murakami

• look
• thinking
• beautiful

It looked like diamonds, rubies, emeralds; he could think of nothing beautiful which it did not resemble. Ambrose Bierce

• look
• rightfully
• rights

You can tell Sam to go right to-''Look at that,' Jacob interrupted me. Stephenie Meyer

• world
• him
• words

In our gradually shrinking world, everyone is in need of all the others. We must look for man wherever we can find him. When on his way to Thebes Oedipus encountered the Sphinx, his answer to its riddle was: « Man». That simple word destroyed the monster. We have many monsters to destroy. Let us think of the answer of Oedipus. Giorgos Seferis

• star
• men
• look

Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw stars. Dale Carnegie

• look
• design
• best

When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it, with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience has been able to produce in millions of years. Bertrand Russell

• fighting
• humanity
• look

He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably. Richard Russo

• look
• lazy
• lazy people

Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want. Albert Einstein

• hand
• cat
• may

I don't like the looks of it,' said the King: 'however, it may kis my hand, if it likes.''I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked. Lewis Carroll

• sometimes
• look
• life

This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright. George Orwell

• look
• dismissed
• looks

... failing to look inscrutable to any but the habitually dismissive ... Thomas Pynchon

• her eyes
• believe
• heart

I have heard of daydreams? is she in a daydream now? Her eyes are fixed on the floor, but I am sure they do not see it? her sight seems turned in, gone down into her heart: she is looking at what she can remember, I believe; not at what is really present. Charlotte Bronte

• evening
• look
• imagination

I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden. Jodi Picoult

• focus
• look
• thing

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find. Ann Patchett

• time
• home
• family

All that five thousand kids lived in those five thousand houses, owned by guys that got off the train. The houses looked so much alike that, time and time again, the kids went home by mistake to different houses and different families. Nobody ever noticed. Ken Kesey