Look Away Quotes

129 quotes by 110 authors

I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to… — Margaret Cho
The match will be shown on Match of the Day later this evening and if you don't want to know the result look away now… — Steve Rider
Don't accommodate any degree of temptation. Prevent sin and avoid having to deal with its inevitable destruction. So, turn it off! Look away! Avoid it… — Dallin H. Oaks
You have to question a cinematic culture that preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant… — Ryan Gosling
Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because… — Robert Olen Butler
Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques. — Charles Guggenheim
I tried to remember how to exhale. I had to look away before it came back to me. — Stephenie Meyer
Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go,… — Rumi
The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him. — Oswald Chambers
The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away. — Wendell Berry
You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away. — Rainbow Rowell
It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing on the Internet… — Roger Ebert
To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away. — Akira Kurosawa
When you have seen the things I have seen and traveled all over the world, you would not be honest to yourself and the world… — Michael Jackson
My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away. — Nikky Finney
The media covers what's new - and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it's easier to ignore.… — Bill Gates
Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your… — Al Stewart
It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. — Roger Ebert
In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under… — Akira Kurosawa

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