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All seems infected that th' infected spy, as all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye.
Alexander Pope— An Essay on Criticism (1711), Part II, line 358.
if a girl likes me a lotand starts getting real nervousand suddenly begins asking me funny questionsand looks sad if I give the wrong answersand she says things like,"Do you think it's going to rain?"and I say, "It beats me,"and she says, "Oh,"and looks a little sadat the clear blue California sky,I think: Thank God, it's you, baby, this time Instead of me.
Richard Brautigan— "It's Raining In Love"
The disciples seem alone; but up yonder, in some hidden cleft of the hills, their Master looks down on all the weltering storm, and lifts His voice in prayer. Then when the need is sorest, and the hope least, He comes across the waves, making their surges His pavement, and using all opposition as the means of His approach; and His presence brings calmness; and immediately they are at the land.
alexander maclaren— Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895, p. 110)
You would think the fury of aerial bombardment Would rouse God to relent; the infinite spaces Are still silent. He looks on shock-pried faces. History, even, does not know what is meant.
— 1951 'The Fury of Aerial Bombardment'.
The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks upon the bright side, but trains every force that is in him to produce more and more brightness in his life...
christian d. larson— Chapter 6, p. 97
Tut tut, looks like rain.
a. a. milne— From Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), said by Christopher Robin.
The American character looks always as if it just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
Joseph McCarthy— 1947 'America the Beautiful', in Commentary, Sep.
When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting.
terence rattigan— 1952 The Deep Blue Sea. Act I
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein— Leonard Bernstein, statement of 1953, quoted in A Wonderful Life : 50 Eulogies to Lift the Spirit (2006) by Cyrus M. Copeland, p. 190
I can mix and match a cute shirt with some skinny jeans under a leather jacket and it looks fun and unique.
miley cyrus— Reading Eagle (December 20, 2008)
You have been told that God is a loving, gracious, merciful, kind, compassionate, wonderful, and good sky fairy who runs a day care in the sky and has a bucket of suckers for everyone because we're all good people. That is a lie... God looks down and says, "I hate you, you are my enemy, and I will crush you," and we say that is deserved, right and just, and then God says, "Because of Jesus I will love you and forgive you." This is a miracle.
mark driscoll— Jesus Took Our Wrath (Propitiation), Sermon preached November 6, 2005 at Mars Hill Church.
Twenty minutes compared to never, that's a lot. Our customer, the Central Intelligence Agency, would get very upset [if] somebody looks in their database.
larry ellison— As quoted in "Ellison: Oracle remains unbreakable" CNN (21 January 2002)
The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love,The matron's glance that would those looks reprove.
Oliver Goldsmith— Line 29.
When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities. He welcomes the challenge of a tough problem and looks for ways to turn it to advantage.
norman vincent peale— Have a Great Day (1986), p. 2
What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web … Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring.
tim berners-lee— As quoted in "US backing for two-tier internet" in BBC News (7 September 2007)
There is not wind enough to twirl
The one red leaf, the last of its clan,
That dances as often as dance it can,
Hanging so light, and hanging so high,
On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
— Christabel, Part I, line 48 (1816)
The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing it well or you're doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That is actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.
john green— YouTube video
Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.
james joyce— "James Clarence Mangan" (1902)
Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
C. S. Lewis— Letter VIII (The Screwtape Letters (1942))
Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many. And whoever sees that way heals his heart, Without knowing it, from various ills A bird and a tree say to him: Friend.
czesław miłosz— "The World": Love (1943), trans. Czes?aw Mi?osz
The genius is childlike. Like children he looks into the world as into a new creation and finds there a perennial source of wonder and delight.
john lancaster spalding— p. 27 (Aphorisms and Reflections (1901))
Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles, And waste the time, which looks for other revels.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre (c. 1607-08), Act II, scene 3, line 92.
The moon looks on many brooks, the brook can see no moon but this.
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies, While Gazing on the Moon's Light.
My falcon now is sharp, and passing empty; And till she stoop, she must not be full-gorg'd, For then she never looks upon her lure.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act IV, scene 1, line 193.
Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.
natalie portman
Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats drily.
william shakespeare— All's Well That Ends Well, act 1, sc. 1 (1623)
He was high on intellectualism. I've never been there, but the brochure looks nice.
— Sheryl Crow, "Every Day is a Winding Road", from Sheryl Crow (1996)
Wind of the sunny south! oh, still delay In the gay woods and in the golden air, Like to a good old age released from care, Journeying, in long serenity, away. In such a bright, late quiet, would that I Might wear out life like thee, mid bowers and brooks, And, dearer yet, the sunshine of kind looks, And music of kind voices ever nigh; And when my last sand twinkled in the glass, Pass silently from men as thou dost pass.
william cullen bryant— William Cullen Bryant, October, line 5.
