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Looks Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- "Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel,…
- Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and…
- It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but…
- You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else…
- If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if…
- It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you…
- I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me. I saw where it was born deep down under…
- It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.
- As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up at…
- My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at…
- Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits…
- To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political servitude, were never…
- The question is not what you look at--but how you look, and whether you see.
- We must look a long time before we can see
- Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it!…
- We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is the universe. To…
- A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.
- When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's,…
- A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not…
- Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less…
- Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man?
- It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
- Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and…
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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
- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
- 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
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe