Spectators Quotes
283 quotes by 248 authors
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Every death even the cruelest death drowns in the total indifference of Nature Nature herself would watch unmoved if we destroyed the entire human race…
— Peter Weiss
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He was, like everyone of a strongly erotic disposition, twice as good, twice as much himself when he knew that women liked him, just as…
— Stefan Zweig
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You could call him," Wes suggests. "Why be a spectator in the game of love? Take charge. Don't wait around and let the boy call…
— Laurie Faria Stolarz
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with…
— Joseph Conrad
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When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It seems at times…
— Boyd Rice
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I have always been a spectator of life, you know, never a participant. Never. But now I am. Today I am, and I an awed…
— Mary Balogh
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Beware, my body and my soul, beware above all of crossing your arms and assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not…
— Aime Cesaire
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Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the victim of some…
— Jonathan Coe
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I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport.
— Jeff Lindsay
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Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more…
— Derek Landy
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Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you're an owner. Faith is at its best when…
— Bob Goff
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In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.…
— Alan Lightman
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You experience life alone, you can be as intimate with another as much as you like, but there has to be always a part of…
— Steve Toltz
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As he gave a sleepy, growling groan, that hand disappeared under the sheet. Arizona's lips parted, and her heartbeat tripped up. She cleared her throat.…
— Lori Foster
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With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy the "quality of…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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I am not talking about you being a spectator, I am talking about involvement. I am talking about involving yourself into life in such a…
— Jaggi Vasudev
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We need a barn or one of those storage areas for the Broken vehicles." "A garage?" He gave her a short nod. "A private, relatively…
— Ilona Andrews
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We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the…
— Martha Graham
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Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with…
— Francis Parkman
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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Who Wrote These Spectators Quotes
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