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I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.
Anne Lamott

Eyes, Spring, Try

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
Garrison Keillor

Time, Greed, Far

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
John Ruskin

Best, Long, Book

I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you?
Shannon Hoon

Happy, Yourself, Selfish

I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.
P. J. O'Rourke

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.
Colin Powell

America, United, Pure

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
Jane Austen

Great, Best, Morality

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
Diane Arbus

Confidence, Control, Give

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Success, Regret, Friends

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
Alexander Pope

Greatest, Person, Eyes

I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.
Colin Powell

Time, Decision, Two

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Jane Austen

Life, Beauty, Girl

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
Francis Bacon

She, Though, Shall

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Francis Bacon

Live, Before, Houses

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.
Beverly Cleary

Sunday, Book, Rainy

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
Rudyard Kipling

Down, Fall, Backwards

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
Samuel Butler

Enough, Able, Culture

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
Samuel Butler

Work, Enemy, Lost

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them.
Dolly Parton

Heart, Why, Big

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.
Kin Hubbard

Government, Long, Democrats

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.
Sally Ride

Stars, Bigger, Brighter

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Jerome K. Jerome

Work, Sit, Hours

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
Fran Lebowitz

Public, Style, General

Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.
Nicolas Cage

Important, Passion, Stop

What I find most disturbing about Valentine's Day is, look, I get that you have to have a holiday of love, but in the height of flu season, it makes no sense.
Lewis Black

Love, Find, Sense

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Carl Sandburg

Time, Nice, Everything

If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.
Charles Stanley

Love, Good, Wisdom

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.
Lindsay Wagner

Pain, True, Healing

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Samuel Johnson

Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
Samuel Beckett

Down, Hell, Off

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