Quotes with sharp-looking

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  • Sir Walter Scott Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bill Burr Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you're trying to spell? What do you end up getting, you end up getting, like, a question mark. You got a million dollars of technology just looking back at you like, 'You got me, buddy. Which is pretty amazing because I have all the words.'
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Bob Dylan Disillusioned words like bullets bark
    As human gods aim for their marks.
    Make everything from toy guns that spark
    To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark.
    It's easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred.
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Confucius Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Bob Cousy Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.
    Bob Cousy
    American basketball player (1928 - )
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  • Augusto Pinochet During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.
    Augusto Pinochet
    Chilean general, politician and dictator (1915 - 2006)
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  • John Calvin Each eye can have its vision separately; but when we are looking at anything… our vision, which in itself is divided, joins up and unites in order to give itself as a whole to the object that is put before it.
    John Calvin
    French theologian, pastor and reformer (1509 - 1564)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty - how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Cindy Crawford Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.
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  • Ben Carson Every time I am looking into the depths of somebody's brain, I'm thinking, 'This is what makes a person who they are. That structure contains memories. Everything that they've ever experienced is right in there.'
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Brendan Gleeson Everyone's waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, 'Oh, I wonder will I be in the running?
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Alan Cohen Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Dorothy L. Sayers Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ''ye cannot enter the kingdom of God.'' One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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  • Gloria Steinem Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bethany McLean Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Bahman Ghobadi For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Samuel Butler For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure - tangible material prosperity in this world - is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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