Seeing Quotes - Page 26

• When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Effort, Done, Steps

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 155, 1799.

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• We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Vision, Remember, Awe

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 65, 1799.

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• The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dream, Men, Fundraising

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.746, Library of America

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• Our visions begin with our desires.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Vision, Desire

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

  Sophia Loren

  Beauty, Food, Inspiration

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• Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

  John Lubbock

  Romantic, Beauty, Beautiful

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• When I'm in love with a woman, seeing her in something cozy makes me not want to let go of her when I'm holding her.

  Kellan Lutz

  Letting Go, Cozy, Want

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• More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't.

  David Lynch

  Thinking, People, Sound

  "The Visionary". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. November 21, 2008.

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• Worrying about the past or the future isn't productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.

  Harvey Mackay

  Mistake, Past, Worry

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• Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.

  John Madden

  Atmosphere, Theater, Audience

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• If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

  Jose Marti

  Life Lesson, Bread Of Life, Doors

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working with other writers, as in Hollywood or in a shared world series, will also strengthen your skills, by exposing you to new ways of seeing the work, and different approaches to certain creative challenges.

  George R. R. Martin

  Believe, Writing, Skills

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Differences, Painting

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• We are seeing, we have seen in the last figures a significant drop in the number of net migrants coming into the United Kingdom. So we are cutting out abuse, we've restricted the number of economic - non-EU economic migrants. We're cutting out abuse across the student visa system, particularly, and we're having an impact.

  Theresa May

  Cutting, Impact, Numbers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've done enough for a while and people get fed up of seeing you, but apart from that, although I'm young, I need a bit of rest. You could say I have become a house husband. It's not a new man thing, it's just largely a boring man who doesn't mind staying in the house thing.

  James McAvoy

  Husband, Men, People

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• Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Healing, Progress, Contentment

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• I trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.

  Ewan McGregor

  Theatre, Thrill

  "Ewan McGregor: questions from the floor". Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2002.

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• Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their children are being exposed to. It's so important.

  Danica McKellar

  Children, Kids, Eye

  "Danica McKellar Faces Backlash Over Maxim Spread, Has Advice For Miley Cyrus" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. June 4, 2010.

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• For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

  Margaret Mead

  Media, History, Being Sad

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• I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.

  Leighton Meester

  I Love You, Mean, Bats

  "Leighton Meester: The "Gossip Girl" You Love to Hate" by Molly Fahner, www.cosmopolitan.com. May 6, 2009.

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• A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event. I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.

  Freddie Mercury

  Fashion, Fun, Clothes

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it's just by signing an autograph. A child's smile is worth more than all the money in the world.

  Lionel Messi

  Children, World, Way

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• I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.

  Duane Michals

  Thinking, People, Magic

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• I remember watching Barbra Streisand and seeing Jennifer Grey in 'Dirty Dancing' - these were people who acted like me and looked like me. Now it's great that everyone on 'Glee' is so unique and people can relate to us and look up to us.

  Lea Michele

  Dirty, Unique, Naughty

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• An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

  James A. Michener

  War, Failure, Ignorance

  James A. Michener “SPACE”

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