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Look Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
- The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And in…
- A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes,…
- A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up…
- You never know how you look through other people's eyes.
- When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life…
- Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds…
- 'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not…
- When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that…
- The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look…
- Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual…
- People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will…
- Look out! Behind you!
- Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
- The influence of the senses have in men overpowered the thought to the degree that the walls of time and space have come to look…
- An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.
- The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.
- I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the…
- The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him,…
- I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side…
- Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as…
- Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel…
- War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza,…
- How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet…
- Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.
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- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable.… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as… — Andrea Arnold
- Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to… — Frank Abagnale
- An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs. — John Ashcroft
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi
- All fat women look the same; they all look 42. — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood