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You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more — Bob Dylan
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. — Steven Wright
There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one… — Jacquelyn Mitchard
...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off are honored, in… — Thomas Hardy
The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces,… — Sue Monk Kidd
somehow we have overlooked the fact this treasured called the heart can also be broken, has been broken, and now lies in pieces down under… — John Eldredge
The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best… — Malcolm Gladwell
All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate… — Corrie Ten Boom
In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a… — Margaret Wise Brown
[W]hat is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that… — Elaine Dundy
As ever, the original inhabitants of Turtle Island are entirely overlooked. Mysteriously, the only time indigenous people are guaranteed a mainstream Amerikkan mention is on… — Inga Muscio
Of course it does, Jomes answered earnestly. Many of life's treasures remain hidden from us simply because we never search for them. Often we do… — Andy Andrews
Our favourite item was the balcony that overlooked the sea because it had an awning that you lowered by pressing an electric switch. The switch… — Douglas Adams
You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work… — Tamora Pierce
She thought in would be awkward for both to be brought into conscious collision; and fancied that, from her being on a low seat at… — Elizabeth Gaskell
But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last,… — Evelyn Waugh
Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked,… — Alain de Botton
She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only… — Carl Sagan
Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it… — Leo Tolstoy
Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not… — Mindy Kaling
The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance… — Leo Tolstoy
Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the… — Soren Kierkegaard
Look at the way the walls curve,' Macey said, her gaze panning around the strangely shaped room. 'it's almost like...' 'The library,' Liz said, and… — Ally Carter
Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and… — Soren Kierkegaard
For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject.… — Albert Camus

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