A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David Thoreau

After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.
Albert Hofmann

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
Joseph Joubert

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
Alice Walker

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
Alison Lurie

Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last.
Mercy Otis Warren

But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.
Omar Bongo

But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.
Daniel Greenberg

Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada.
Marc Garneau

Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur

Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
Alex Trebek

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
Isaac Barrow

Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments.
Robert Barany

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
Alexander Hamilton

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
Marcus Aurelius

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.
Shana Alexander

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Napoleon Hill

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.
Margaret Cavendish

Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with computerization; but it's not the first thing.
Nils-Axel Morner

Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns.
Howard Staunton