Looked Upon Quotes
131 Looked Upon quotes by 114 unique authors
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In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s geometric signs, In…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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There would be no one there to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will…
— Kate Chopin
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Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed…
— Terry Eagleton
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We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by;…
— Thomas Hardy
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The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself has no relish…
— Arthur W. Pink
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God's pleasure--the beauty creation possesses in his regard--underlies the distinct being of creation, and so beauty is the first and truest word concerning all that…
— David Bentley Hart
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Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked…
— Freya Stark
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...for very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary...
— Patrick O'Brian
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If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained…
— Cormac McCarthy
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I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown…
— Langston Hughes
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I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals…
— Albert Einstein
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He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself for the mortified…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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As she stood before Aragorn she paused suddenly and looked upon him, and her eyes were shining. And he looked down upon her fair face…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror,and even the skies of spring and flowers of summer must ever afterward be…
— H P Lovecraft
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There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became...
— Walt Whitman
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This person had arrived, he had illuminated her, he had ensorcelled her with notions of miracle and beauty, he had both understood and misunderstood her,…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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In Sweden, stardom is looked upon as phony. You walk to the theater every day like everybody else.
— Lena Olin
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In the Middle Eastern culture, it is looked upon with very high regard to get the best deal possible, no matter what it takes, and…
— Duncan Hunter
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I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same…
— William Temple
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I think we are looked upon as a veteran band.
— Lou Gramm
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General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout…
— Henry Villard
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And as I looked up, I was gazing on a hill, and in my spine I felt an icy, icy chill. And as I looked…
— Nate Ramer
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In an experience of women that extends over many nations and three separate continents, I have never looked upon a face which gave a clearer…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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