Quotes by Gazing Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'. Alain de Botton gazing disrespect thinking She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty? Ann Brashares gazing appreciate trying As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson. Arthur Conan Doyle gazing rocks water Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof. Augustus William Hare gazing shadow men True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals. C. S. Lewis gazing true-friend goal He was gazing at her, the way one did when one felt one was unobserved. He had that look on his face, the look he usually got only when he was playing the violin, as if he were completely caught up and entranced. Cassandra Clare gazing violin looks [He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill) Cecil Beaton gazing cameras animal Focusing intently on Christ naturally results in a lifestyle of increasingly greater selflessness. And it has another benefit. Gazing on Christ gives us greater ability to look past life's trials and remain calm in the midst of what others would call chaos. Charles R. Swindoll gazing giving past All around the world, we are gazing skyward waiting for God… Never realizing that God is waiting for us. Dan Brown gazing waiting world The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder. David Hume gazing examination superstitions While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful. Dejan Stojanovic gazing beautiful I shoot for the moon but I'm too busy gazing the stars. Eminem gazing stars moon Do everything like someone is gazing at you. Epicurus gazing When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but the peacock will continue to turn so that no front view is possible. The thing to do then is to stand still and wait until it pleases him to turn. When it suits him, the peacock will face you. Then you will see in a green-bronze arch around him a galaxy of gazing, haloed suns. Flannery O'Connor gazing views waiting When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him gazing, not lost in thought and so oblivious of everything, but free and untroubled, as if he were alone with nobody to observe him, and yet must notice that he was observed, and all the same remained with his calm not even slightly disturbed; and really - one did not know whether it was cause or effect - the gaze of the observer could not remain concentrated there, but slid away. Franz Kafka castles gazing causes All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is almost a perceptual necessity; in order to see what the photograph is of, we must first repress our consciousness of what the photograph is. Geoffrey Batchen gazing two order If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over again. Greg Egan gazing faces fall Gazing at the rain, I consider what it means to belong, to become part of something. To have someone cry for me. Haruki Murakami gazing rain mean Oh! How should all hearts be taken with this Christ? Why stand ye gazing on the toys of this world, when such a Christ is offered to you in the Gospel? Can the world die for you? Isaac Ambrose gazing taken heart All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. John Ruskin gazing darkness beautiful 123»