Quotes with looking-glass

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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bill Hybels Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Bryant Gumbel This comes at a time when Republicans are looking to gut the Clean Water Act and also the Safe Drinking Water Act. What are our options? Are we now forced to boil water because bottled water is not an economically feasible option for a lot of people?
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Bill Bryson Three things alone are certain when you venture into a loft: that you will crack your head on a beam at least twice, that you will get cobwebs draped over your face, and that you will not find what you went looking for.
    Im a Stranger Here Myself (US) / Notes From a Big Country (UK) (1998)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Jane Austen 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
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Carl Sandburg To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Benny Goodman To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Rebecca West We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Oscar Wilde We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Eduardo Galeano We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
    Eduardo Galeano
    Uruguayan journalist and writer (1940 - 2015)
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  • Bill Maris We are looking for highly technical, enthusiastic and capable entrepreneurs who have a healthy disregard for the impossible, and that's not always easy to find.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Buzz Aldrin We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Paul Auster We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not.
    Moon Palace (2010) 119
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Abdullah Ahmad Badawi We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.
    Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
    Malaysian politician (1939 - )
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  • Bryant Gumbel We keep looking for some good to come out of this. Maybe it might help in putting race relations back on the front burner after they've been subjugated so long as a result of the Reagan years.
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Bern Williams We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
    Bern Williams
    English philosopher
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