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1112 Watched quotes by 916 unique authors

I know that even now, having watched enough television, you probably won't even refer to them as lepers so as to spare their feelings. You… — Christopher Moore
It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I… — Rainer Maria Rilke
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes - within the limits… — Viktor E. Frankl
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one… — Ayn Rand
I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like little lost infants, untill they decide to… — Ellen Hopkins
Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying… — Khaled Hosseini
It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most… — Upton Sinclair
I called my mother immediately to inform her that she was a bad parent. "I can't believe you let us watch this. We ate dinner… — Sloane Crosley
The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead. I have watched others since I watched my father,… — P.D. James
Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot. Did we really… — Barbara Pym
You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had. I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression… — Melissa Bank
She's quite skinny, like me, but nice skinny. Roller-skate skinny. I watched her once from the window when she was crossing over Fifth Avenue to… — J D Salinger
Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me… — Alice Sebold
Please believe me when I tell you that I picked up each soul that day as if it were newly born. I even kissed a… — Markus Zusak
...they watched the humans disappear. They watched them dissolve, like moving tablets in the humid air. — Markus Zusak
I carried [Rudy] softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder [at comforting]. I watched the contents of his soul for a… — Markus Zusak
After the trial, I watched as another female pathologist collected maggots from a spinal column found in the desert. There was a decomposed head, too,… — David Sedaris
He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two… — Douglas Adams
I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play… — Charles Bukowski
I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the… — Emily Bronte
The Scarecrow watched the Woodman while he worked and said to him "I cannot think why this wall is here nor what it is made… — L. Frank Baum
Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen. — Leif Enger
Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as… — Oscar Wilde
For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone. — E. M. Forster
He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up… — Alice Sebold

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