Seeing Quotes - Page 38

• People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Intelligent, People, Well Known

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Kentish (1999). “Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler”, p.269, Oxford Paperbacks

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• It is their nature, beautiful and simple. That you would destroy such beings, Mr. Lincoln, such superior creatures, seems madness to me.” “That you speak of them with such reverence, Mr. Poe, seems madness to me.” "Can you imagine it? Can you imagine seeing the universe through such eyes? Laughing in the face of time and death—the world your Garden of Eden? Your library? Your harem?

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Beautiful, Eye, Simple

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• So far I’m not seeing a lot of difference between me and a carnival con-man.

  Richelle Mead

  Men, Differences, Carnivals

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.110, Penguin

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• Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Glimpse, Veils, Faces

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.5, Macmillan

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• Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Believe, People, Faults

  Carol Plum-Ucci (2008). “The Body of Christopher Creed”, p.177, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do you like him? Ty asked. "Not that I care." "I do," I said, because it was true. Even though it didn't matter anymore. "Not that I care you don't care. Though you clearly do care, and I don't care about that either." "Well, I don't care that you don't care that I don't care. In fact i'm glad. Because, um, if I were seeming someone that I liked, I'd want you to be happy for me.""Are you seeing someone?" I asked, pretty sure he wasn't. "Not that I care.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Care, Want, Matter

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• And while seeing Trent in his tighty-whities would make my decade, I’d found out long ago that I couldn’t stay mad at a man wearing nothing but underwear. They looked so charmingly vulnerable.

  Kim Harrison

  Men, Long Ago, Mad

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• I thought I was growing wings— it was a cocoon. I thought, now is the time to step into the fire— it was deep water. Eschatology is a word I learned as a child: the study of Last Things; facing my mirror—no longer young, the news—always of death, the dogs—rising from sleep and clamoring and howling, howling.... ("Seeing For a Moment")

  Denise Levertov

  Dog, Children, Sleep

  Denise Levertov (1984). “Oblique Prayers: Poetry”, p.14, New Directions Publishing

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• Hey!" I exclaimed, seeing the total. "They're charging me retail. Glenn!" I complained. "They can't do that." I shook it at him. "I shouldn't have to pay retail!" "What did you expect? You can keep that. It's your copy." I sat back in a huff and shoved it in my bag with my sticky scarf as he typed his slow, painful way through my report. "Where's this human compassion I keep hearing about?" "That's it, baby doll," he said, voice smoother than usual. He was laughing at me.

  Kim Harrison

  Baby, Compassion, Voice

  Kim Harrison (2013). “Black Magic Sanction”, p.35, HarperCollins UK

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• I turned back to the mirror, seeing that there were no lines on it. It was empty. "What happened to my mirror?" I said, bewildered. Then realizing that I was looking at the back of the dumb thing, I swore and turned it over.

  Kim Harrison

  Mirrors, Dumb, Lines

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• No exclusive,” I said aloud, watching Al for his opinion and seeing him shake his head and hold his hands out in a “bigger” gesture. He didn’t even know how large the offer was, and he thought I could get one bigger.

  Kim Harrison

  Hands, Gestures, Als

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• How can you stand touching her?” my sister blurted, staring at our clasped hands. “Doesn’t that hurt?” I seized on the change of topic. “These gloves are specialized rubber. They block the current.” Gretchen’s gaze traveled over Vlad, disbelief still stamped on her features. “Yeah, but how do you two do anything else, unless he has a special, currentrepelling glove for his—” “Gretchen!” my father cut her off. My cheeks felt hot. Don’t say a word, I thought to Vlad, seeing his chest tremble with suppressed laughter. “He has a natural immunity,” I gritted out.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Hurt, Laughter, Father

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• Witch, do this for me, Find me a moon made of longing. Then cut it sliver thin, and having cut it, hang it high above my beloved's house, so that she may look up tonight and see it, and seeing it, sigh for me as I sigh for her, moon or no moon.

  Clive Barker

  Cutting, Moon, House

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• So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Knowing, Purpose, Chance

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• Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?

  Thomas Sowell

  Tired, Looks, Non Conformist

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.334, Hoover Press

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• "No, you should stay right where you are, or my estranged brother and I will settle our difference by seeing who can break more of your bones." Tod glanced at him, brows raised. "You want to settle our differences?" Nash frowned. "No, I want to break every bone in his body, and I didn't think you'd let me do it alone." Tod nodded. "Good call."

  Rachel Vincent

  Brother, Thinking, Differences

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, 2011.

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• His gaze burned into mine, like he could see past my eyes into parts of me no one had ever seen, and I knew I was seeing the same in him. No one else had ever seen him so vulnerable before, like if I pushed him away, he might crumble into pieces that could never be put together again. Yet there was strength, too. He was strong beneath that fragile need, and I knew that I could never fall with him next to me. If I tripped, he would catch me. If I lost my balance, he would find it.

  Rachel Vincent

  Strong, Fall, Eye

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Before I Wake”, p.187, Harlequin

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• The door burst open. Murphy came through it, her eyes living flames of azure blue, her hair a golden coronet around her. She held a blazing sword in her hand and she shone so bright and beautiful and terrifying in her anger that it was hard to see. The Sight, I realized, dimly. I was seeing her for who she was.

  Jim Butcher

  Beautiful, Eye, Hair

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.733, Penguin

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• No two people can see the world in the same way. No matter what you’re looking at, no one is seeing it the same way you are.

  Susane Colasanti

  Two, People, World

  Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.88, Penguin

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• Don’t interrupt,’ one of the boys said. ‘He’ll lose his life.’ Seeing it was a matter of life and death, Sophie and Michael backed toward the door. But Howl, quite unperturbed at killing his nephew, strode over to the wall and pulled the boxes up by the roots.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Wall, Boys, Doors

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• Though her soul requires seeing, the culture around her requires sightlessness. Though her soul wishes to speak its truth, she is pressured to be silent.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Soul, Wish, Culture

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• No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know.

  Veronica Roth

  Insecurity, Selfishness, Doe

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• The collision was impending and electric, but the moment was soft and sweet: She positively glowed as she looked up at him. "What," she whispered, palming his face. Vin took a moment to memorize her features and the way she felt beneath him, seeing her not just through his eyes, but feeling her with his skin and his heart. "Hello, lovely lady...hello.

  J.R. Ward

  Sweet, Eye, Heart

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Covet: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.371, Penguin

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• Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?

  Nhat Hanh

  Acting, Mindfulness, Use

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2010). “Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.91, Random House

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• To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize.

  Susan Sontag

  Suffering, Doe, Compassionate

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.21, Macmillan

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