Looks Quotes - Page 344

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters . . . I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit.

When we look in to the long avenue of the future, and see the good there is for each one of us to do, we realize, after all, what a beautiful thing it is to work, and to live, and to be happy.

If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.

Nick looks into Brians hollow gaze. That's what's going on here brian. The devil's figured out a way to keep peoples souls trapped here on earth.

I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look.

I am moved, shaken, and when it is all over, I look at wonder at what is written or painted.

The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least.

My philosophy is: Everybody needs to look out for everybody else.

When I look at the faces of turning drivers, I mostly see them looking in the direction of oncoming motorists rather than at the people they're about to turn into.

Drivers tend to look for other drivers, rather than for pedestrians or cyclists.

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.

Our history doesn't look at our own violence, the violence in our own past, and we go out and repeat it someplace else.

The problem is the book business is changing so we're in a difficult moment now and if the business model is changing, I don't know if I'm going to have to look what's in store for me at that level but fortunately, I broke in earlier.

A lot of things in history are timing, and it's very peculiar because in retrospect things [and] people can look more brilliant or necessary than they actually were.

It looks like I had the most irrelevant education than anybody in the planet could have.

In every soap, at the end of the season, relationships end and people leave the show. You look at characters and evaluate whether they're great characters or not, and whether they have a future in the show. And we did all of that.

Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was playing during its execution.

The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.

No one would have the courage to walk up to a writer and ask to look at the last few pages of his manuscript, but they feel perfectly comfortable staring over an artist's shoulder while he is trying to paint.

A businessman admits that he 'let go' an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I am shocked, like a good Westerner should be.

I try not to look for messages in films.

I've had it happen to me before where it turns out that they never had the money and couldn't have made the movie in the first place. And these are the things you have to look for when trying to read the behavior of the people you sit down with.

I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are open, and I am not afraid.

One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand.