Glare Quotes - Page 2

I think you have to protect your private life as much as you possibly can, and, at the same time, find ways to redirect that focus and turn the glare into a positive thing. I don't know how you do it. I don't know how anybody's ever done it.

Scarlett Johansson

Thinking, Focus, Done

Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.

Mary Oliver

Humility, Mind, Modest

Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.214, Penguin

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No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.

Cyril Connolly

Passion, Past, Serenity

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Her glare was so intense that you completely forgot she was wearing pink.

Eoin Colfer

Wearing Pink, Intense

Eoin Colfer (2007). “Half Moon Investigations”, Disney-Hyperion

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Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.

Stephen Hawking

Government, Abuse, Scrutiny

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And Max, I've put some scraps in a bowl for your dog," Mom said. "It's on the floor, by the back door." The flock and I went still. Uh-oh, I thought. Total stomped up to me, his glare accusing. "A bowl on the floor!" he seethed. "Why don't you just chain me to a stake in the yard and throw me a bone!

James Patterson

Mom, Dog, Doors

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How?" I had seen it with my own eyes, but I still didn't believe it. Then something struck me. "Take off your shirt!" "I'm not that kind of guy!" He frowned thoughtfully. "On second thought, why not?" I blushed angrily and looked at Raquel. "What is he? I don't see anything!" "He's not 'anything'.Just a talented boy." "Then how did he make a door? How did he get through the Paths?" "Wait,so am I allowed to put my shirt back on? Or did you want me to remove my pants,too?" Lend and I joined forces in a dark glare. "Only if you want me to vomit," I snapped.

Kiersten White

Believe, Eye, Dark

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At the door, Audrey called, "Are you coming?" "No, just breathing hard, love." He glanced at her and was rewarded by an outraged glare, followed by, "Oh, my God!

Ilona Andrews

Doors, Breathing, Hard Love

Ilona Andrews (2011). “Fate's Edge”, p.116, NYLA

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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

Salman Rushdie

Negative, Publicity, Strange

"The Art of Bravery: An Interview with Salman Rushdie". Interview with Shaun Randol, lareviewofbooks.org. April 25, 2013.

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It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us; our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.

Michel de Montaigne

Strong, Kings, Light

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I wear sunglasses because of the glare of spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold.

Vincent Tan

Football, League, Sunglasses

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Not too fast," called Raoul. "Let's not scare anyone." "His majesty said with all deliberate speed!" chirped the courier. He flinched under Lerant's glare. "That's how we're doing it," Raoul told him. "Deliberately.

Tamora Pierce

Scare, Majesty, Speed

Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.439, Random House Books for Young Readers

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Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can't be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures.

Laozi

Block, Dust, Giving

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Real Madrid are like a rabbit in the glare of the headlights in the face of Manchester United's attacks. But this rabbit comes with a suit of armour in the shape of two precious away goals.

George Hamilton

Real, Two, Goal

"'May all your doughnuts look just like Fanny's'". www.independent.ie. December 11, 2010.

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Every time I set foot on the Bernabeu turf I got the jitters, a kind of anxiety that takes hold of you the moment you step out into the glare of the floodlights.

Jorge Valdano

Feet, Anxiety, Jitters

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He lifted the arm covering his eyes and turned his head to glare at her. "I knew you were trouble the first time I saw you."
"What do you mean, trouble?" She sat up, glaring back at him. "I am not trouble! I'm a very nice person except when I have to deal with jerks!"
"You're the worst kind of trouble," he snapped. "You're marrying trouble."

Linda Howard

Nice, Mean, Eye

"Mr. Perfect". Book by Linda Howard, 2011.

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Secrets hidden at the heart of midnight are simply waiting to be dragged to the light, as, on some unlucky high noon, they always are. But secrets shrouded in the glare of candor are bound to defeat even the most determined and agile inspector for the light is always changing and proves that the eye cannot be trusted.

James A. Baldwin

Heart, Eye, Light

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She threw up her hands. "All right. Why not?" Why not?" Sure." His arms fell to his sides. "That's it? I pour my heart out. I love you so much I've got freakin' tears in my eyes. And all I get in return is 'Why not'?" What did you expect? Am I supposed to fall all over you just because you've finally come to your senses?" Would it be too much to ask?"...He'd begun to glare at her again, his eyes growing stormier by the minute."When do you think you might be ready? To fall all over me, that is.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Fall, Love You, Heart

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I-" said Nick, his voice halting. "I don't mind it as much when - when people touch me. Some people." Mae looked down, and Nick, who looked more relaxed when he'd been stabbed, slowly lifted his hand from his chest and laid it on the tumbled sheets between them, fingers half-curled into his palm. He was still regarding the ceiling with a fixed glare. "Because you trust them not to hurt you?" Mae asked tentatively. "No," Nick said, his voice harsh. "Because I'd let them hurt me.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Hurt, Hands, Voice

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The vampire's eyes were open, and he was staring at her intently. It was as though he were trying to speak to her with simply the power of a glare. Alexia did not speak glare-ish.

Gail Carriger

Eye, Vampire, Trying

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Myrnin came in from the back room, carrying a load of books, which he dropped with a loud bang on the floor to glare at the two of them. "Excuse me," he said, "but when did my lab become appropriate for snogging?" "What's snogging?" Shane asked. "Ridiculous displays of inappropriate affection in front of me. Roughly translated. And what are you doing here?

Rachel Caine

Book, Two, Bangs

Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.36, Allison & Busby

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We live in a world full of accidents finally in which on aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be sure. Right and wrong we will struggle with forever striving to create and maintain an ethical balance. Right and wrong we will struggle with forever, striving to create and maintain an ethical balance; but the shimmer of summer rain under the street lamps or the great flashing glare of artillery against a night sky – such brutal beauty is beyond dispute.

Anne Rice

Summer, Rain, Struggle

Anne Rice (2010). “The Queen of the Damned”, p.8, Ballantine Books

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Liz looks at the tissue box, which is decorated with drawings of snowmen engaged in various holiday activities. One of the snowmen is happily placing a smiling rack of gingerbread men in an oven. Baking gingerbread men, or any cooking for that matter, is probably close to suicide for a snowman, Liz thinks. Why would a snowman voluntarily engage in an activity that would in all likelihood melt him? Can snowmen even eat? Liz glares at the box.

Gabrielle Zevin

Suicide, Holiday, Men

Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.50, Bloomsbury Publishing

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Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization....The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other, the mutual hatred between motorist and pedestrian, these manifestations seem to constitute the ultimate in righteous wrath.

H. Allen Smith

Hate, Wrath, Civilization

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Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars.

Joseph Conrad

Stars, Sunshine, Light

Joseph Conrad (2012). “Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.19, Penguin

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