Watchers Quotes

• I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men.

  George R. R. Martin

  Wall, Men, Light

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.817, Bantam

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• We are being watched. It's now time for us to watch the watchers.

  Gary Kovacs

  Watches, Internet

  "TED 2012: new browser add - on visualizes who is tracking you online" by Mike Isaac, www.wired.com. February 28, 2012.

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• We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness.

  Dean Koontz

  Responsibility, Darkness, Watches

  FaceBook post by Dean Koontz from Jan 27, 2016

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• Witness the witness itself - and... the ultimate ecstasy is created. Start watching your thoughts but don't stop there... One more thing has to be done, one more step: now watch the watcher... Nothing else is left, only you are. By watching the mind, the mind disappears. By watching the witness, the witness expands and becomes universal.

  Rajneesh

  Mind, Steps, Watches

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• Anger will come and go and the watcher abides. Sadness comes and passes by and the witness remains

  Rajneesh

  Sadness, Comes And Goes, Witness

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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• Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Powerful, Judging, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.55, New World Library

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• As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Dark, Light, Self

  "I am That". Book by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (p. 188), 1973.

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• There are people who make things happen, there are people who
  watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what
  happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes
  things happen.

  Jim Lovell

  Motivational, Success, People

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• The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magics, it's the hardest thing to do.

  Joss Whedon

  World, Lessons, Firsts

  "Fictional character: Wesley Wyndam-Pryce". Angel (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 1999–2004.

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• I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

  Alanis Morissette

  People, Watches, Stories

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• You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt

  William Watson Purkey

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Visionaries, Oracles, World

  "Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype". Book by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 1992.

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• And then comes unhappiness, and one does not become unhappy either. One says, 'A black cloud passing. I am the witness, the watcher.'

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Clouds, Black

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• We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.

  Donald Glover

  Life, Movie, Understanding

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• Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sunset, Kissing, Generations

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• I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  In Saturday Review 25 Aug. 1962

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• Sometimes when I hear commentating, it's sickening. People who never played the game, people who never played in the league have an opinion, and that's all it is. You are here to educate the watcher or the viewer. Sometimes it comes off as personal. I don't ever want to come off like that. My opinion is my opinion about someone.

  Kevin Garnett

  Games, People, League

  "Kevin Garnett: 'I never cared about the accolades'". Interview with Marc J. Spears, sports.yahoo.com. December 30, 2012.

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• . . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Taken, Moon, Ideas

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.34, RosettaBooks

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• Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?

  Juvenal

  Watches, Censorship

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• Life involves effort and growth. You won't grow by watching a situation comedy, though you can grow by reading a book. I hope we aren't becoming a nation of watchers, because what made us great is that we've always been a nation of doers.

  Ronald Reagan

  Reading, Book, Effort

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Joy, Mindfulness

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• I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had 3 eggs... but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs.

  Caroline Rhea

  Easter, Weight Watchers, Chocolate Eggs

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• Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne, Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific, and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise, Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

  John Keats

  Eye, Men, Islands

  "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" l. 5 (1817)

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• The word `ecstasy` is beautiful; it simply means `standing out.` Out of what? Standing out of your ego, your personality, your mind; getting out of the whole structure in which you have lived - not only lived but with which you have become identified. Standing out of all this, just a pure witness, a watcher on the hills - and everything is left deep down in the valley.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Mean, Personality

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• Because of watching your breath and thoughts you have come to know now that you are neither thoughts nor your breath, you are the watcher, the witness. This is awareness. This is what I call meditation. Once you have known this awareness you are unidentified with your body, with your mind. Now you experience a vastness inside you, in one sense utterly empty and in another sense overflowingly full. Because of its emptiness you will remain calm and quiet. And because of its overflowing fullness you will be creative.

  Rajneesh

  Creative, Meditation, Mind

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