Quotes with stare

  • I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?

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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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  • Bill Simmons First impressions matter more in basketball than in any other sport, and they can be savored only in person. Players can't hide behind pads or helmets, so we can stare at them, evaluate every move they make: running, jumping, walking, even ogling the cheerleaders. We can see every ripple and tattoo. If they're lazy, we can tell.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Angelina Grimke I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Charles Dickens I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Anna Held No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Bee Wilson One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our hungers, but we do our best to disguise them with such civilized props as menus and forks.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Alexander Graham Bell Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carole Bouquet What bothers you isn't so much whether you're beautiful or not. What bothers you is the way that people stare.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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  • Butch Trucks When I play, I stare at the left hand of whoever is playing lead. And I get to know what people are playing well enough that when they start going somewhere, once they arrive, I'm already there.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Boyle Roche Would cut us to mincemeat, and throw our bleeding heads on that table to stare us in the face.
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Gene Fowler Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
    Gene Fowler
    American journalist, author and dramatist (1890 - 1960)
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  • Huey Newton Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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