Looks Quotes - Page 212

The world makes us look towards ourselves, our possessions, our desires.The Gospel invites us to be open to others, to share with the poor.

Seeing with the eyes of Christ, I can give to others much more than their outward necessities; I can give them the look of love which they crave.

Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.

If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.

I don't look at it like that's my rival and I have to beat her. It's more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can and the fastest of everyone out here and that's what I expect.

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.

Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.

Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study.

If you look around my room, you see lots of lists. I'm inspired by what's up on the wall.

If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.

A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your book.

Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.

Yes, I have inherited the past because I have acknowledged it at last? And, now that I have come to understand it, I no longer need to look back.

Don't wear eyeliner with too much facial hair. It looks strange.

You can look at a slum or a peasant village, but it is only by entering into the world - by living in it -that you begin to understand what it is like to be powerless, to be like Christ.

I try to look at the whole thing and say 'yes' to the projects that I cannot stop thinking about. If I read a script and the subject stays with me - then that's when I want to go to work.

That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.

In the early-'60s, when you look at that period of time - up to the mod time - when everybody was wearing skinnier suits and skinny lapels and skinny ties - that came out of the States, and that was quite cool.

Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they’re more likely to pick themselves up and try again.

Dysmorphia is when someone looks in the mirror, and sees something else. While I studied my own whatever I was, I decided that maybe everyone has at least a touch of dysmorphia; maybe it's impossible for anyone to ever truly know what they look like.

I look for challenges to keep me going.

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.