Look Around You Quotes

#1. There is an elegant memorial in Washington to Jefferson, but none to Hamilton. However, if you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

George F. Will

#2. Look around you! This is where the path of hatred has brought us.

Pocahontas

#3. Look around you ... Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world.

Nancy Farmer

#4. Look around you. While dogs bark, birds sing and fly. People will talk; Don't worry. You just walk- Just Fly!-RVM

R.v.m.

#5. Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

Mel Brooks

#6. Grease and starch just always win over protein. In food as in so many things. Look around you, that's what our whole country is based on. It's amazing that Michael Jordan can be an iconic figure because he's basically just protein.

Ira Glass

#7. I love the quote she once gave me: "When supply seems to have dried up, look around you quickly for something to give away." It is a law of the universe: to get good things you must first give away good things. (And of course this applies to love and friendship, as well.)

Bear Grylls

#8. When you think what happened to you is the end of the world, just hold your head up and look around you, you will see that the world is there, ready to give you new things!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. You're gonna miss this, you're gonna want this back. You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast. These are some good times, so take a good look around. You may not know it now, but you're gonna miss this.

Trace Adkins

#10. Well, look at it another way: why shouldn't there be cats in a zoo?" I said.
"They're animals, too, right?"
"Cats and dogs are your run-of-the-mill-type animals. Nobody's going to pay money to see them," he said. "Just look around you-they're everywhere. Same thing with people.

Haruki Murakami

#11. In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.

Anita Brookner

#12. Look around you at the people you've been taught to hate, because hate is just a cloak that hides fear.

April White

#13. When you got a question," Polly said before Granada could ask, "first be silent. Look around you. Let creation speak the truth to you." She

Jonathan Odell

#14. On the path to truth, you can't see many people; truth's way is calm and quiet. Look around you, friend! Are there too many people on the path you walk? If there are, question your path! Get away from the crowds!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. We should think only beautiful things, as much as we can. There is so much beautiful in the world if you look around. You are only looking at the dirt under your feet, Jimmy. It's not good for you.

Margaret Atwood

#16. If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Leo Tolstoy

#17. You can have a whole warehouse full of weapons, but if someone attacks you need to get that weapon fast. If you have to run to the warehouse and look around, you're going to get killed. You're better off with a little backpack of weapons instead of that warehouse.

Jon Fitch

#18. Take just ONE minute today and look around you and within you and try for just that minute to understand the utterly amazing miracle and incredible perfection and beauty you are experiencing and observing!

John Assaraf

#19. Why? Look around you, Genesis. The world is full of evil. Since the beginning of time. Evil. Evil things. Evil people.

Katie Klein

#20. One person's going to win, and everybody else is going to not win. So let's not feel like we're losers. Let's utilize the cultural opportunities, get to know the other players on the other team, look around you, enjoy your world series.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#21. Look around you. Everything changes. Everything on this earth is in a continuous state of evolving, refining, improving, adapting, enhancing ... changing. You were not put on this earth to remain stagnant.

Steve Maraboli

#22. If you look around, you can find a face of God in each thing, because He is not hidden in a church, in a mosque, or a synagogue, but everywhere. As there is no one who lives after seeing him, there is also no one dying after seeing him. Who finds Him, stays forever with him.

Shams Tabrizi

#23. Look around you. The earth wouldn't exist without the sun. Plants would die without rain. We're all meant to lean on something. Or someone.

Katie Kacvinsky

#24. Look around you. It's an honor to fight beside you. Today we choose to fight. For the freedom to fight on other days. So we remember what's worth fighting for.

Janet Morris

#25. The best things in life are free. And it is important never to lose sight of that. So look around you. Wherever you see friendship, loyalty, laughter, and love ... there is your treasure.

Neale Donald Walsch

#26. If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.

Henry Rollins

#27. Look behind you: What have you learned?
Look around you: What is happening to others?
Look above you: What does God expect of you?
Look besides you: What resources are available to you?

John C. Maxwell

#28. People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.

Jackson Browne

#29. You've got to say 'yes' to your destiny. Life's happening right now, look around you. There goes some life. Come on, Mamma, live!

Dave Chappelle

#30. Cosmos is closed and light cannot escape from it, then it may be perfectly correct to describe the universe as a black hole. If you wish to know what it is like inside a black hole, look around you.

Carl Sagan

#31. Asking ourselves, 'Where am I right now?' gives us a chance to step outside the internal dialogue for a moment of peace. Look around you, take a deep breath and notice what you see, hear and feel. Present moment awareness is the point of power and choice. It frees us from our compulsive thoughts.

Laura Harvey

#32. The Greeks said the artist doesn't actually have to travel and look around. You stay where God has put you, and you dig as deep as you can. This is what I've done.

Gian Carlo Menotti

#33. Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you'd think it was champagne.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#34. Stop crying; stand up and look around you; there is always a way out in life!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#35. We went up and up into the heavens until people were just dots below us. As we hung right at the top
the twinkling electric lights below mingling with the stars
Father said something I will never forget. He said, 'See here, Queenie. Look around. You've got the whole world at your feet, lass.

Andrea Levy

#36. Just look around; you can't help but laugh at something.

Mike Ross

#37. It's easy to let the assholes, the jerks, the bullies, the green-eyed monsters occupy all your mental headlines but look around, you've got friends and there are even more people who want you to do well, wishing you nothing but good cheer. Let them have all the publicity in your mental media.

Ezekiel Tyrus

#38. Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

Red Skelton

#39. People often speak of hell, not wanting to go there, avoiding it..etc. I never had that problem because hell is a state of mind. Look around you; rape, murder, wars, hatred, envy ... my friend; you're already there!!

Sandra Chami Kassis

#40. The greatest gift you were ever given is your imagination. Within it is the capacity to have all your wishes fulfilled. Look around you.
Everything that you can experience with your senses was once in someone's imagination.

Wayne W. Dyer

#41. What more could there be, but the absolute beauty of our lives? Look around you, for heaven's sake and stop thinking. It is only in your thoughts and in analytical processes that you lose yourself.

Frederick Lenz

#42. You lost weight? Look around, you'll find it.

Jerry Lawler

#43. So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of a mission? Should you quit your job and find a goal? Probably not. But look around you. You may be on a mission, and not realize it yet.

Michael Bremer

#44. Look around you! No matter where you turn your eyes, no matter on what continent you set your foot, you are surrounded, hemmed in, enclosed by wonderful things. Learn to look, learn to appreciate.

Vladimir Fedorovski

#45. Spread compassion all around you. Look around you - people are so unhappy, don't add to their unhappiness. Your compassion will lessen their unhappiness; just one word of compassion will lessen their unhappiness. Don't add to their unhappiness.

Rajneesh

#46. Look behind you in gratitude.
Look ahead of you in hope.
Look beside you in caution.
Look around you in faith.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#47. In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

Anita Brookner

#48. People ask, "Have you ever seen the gods you worship? How can you be sure they exist?" Answers: i. Just look around you. ii. I've never seen my soul either. And yet I revere it. That's how I know the gods exist and why I revere them - from having felt their power, over and over.

Marcus Aurelius

#49. A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you.

Khalil Gibran

#50. If you open your eyes very wide and look around you carefully, you will always see a lighthouse which will lead you to the right path! Just watch around you carefully!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#51. The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.

Mao Tse-tung

#52. Oh yes. Blood is everything. But the only blood I'm interested in flows from my enemies. Look around you! These cats are bathed in blood. It soaks their fur and laps at their paws. This is the way we survive! We are BloodClan!

Erin Hunter

#53. Look around you, he said. There is no prophet in the earth's long chronicle who's not honored here today. Whatever form you spoke of you were right.

Cormac McCarthy

#54. I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story.

Desmond Dekker

#55. It's the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread. No matter which, remember this: God loves you with an infinite love.

Marianne Williamson

#56. I look around. You'd have to be out of your fucking mind to write, as Marcus did, that Black History Month is a ploy to lever more entitlement money out of Congress, but the ho-hum nonresponse of the white crowd reading this bit of transparent insanity is, to me, even weirder.

Matt Taibbi

#57. Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.

Thomas Carlyle

#58. Look around you: there is not a doctor who desires the health of his friends, not a soldier who desires peace for his country.

Philemon

#59. Pretty thing, and such a bad liar. A dog can smell a lie, you know. Look around you, and take a good whiff. They're all liars here ... and every one better than you.

George R R Martin

#60. Are you looking for gold, friend? Look around you; anything useful to you is pure gold, pure silver!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#61. Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether it's a song, a stranger, a mountain, a tea kettle, an article, a sentence, a footstep -feel it all. Look around you. All of this is for you. Take it and have gratitude. Give it and feel love.

Zooey Deschanel

#62. Stop now. Look around you. See what beauty there is. It is not always necessary to talk.

Elizabeth Adler

#63. The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.

Cormac McCarthy

#64. Stop and unplug," say I; "look around you, at the vastness and greatness of the natural world." Some stop. Others need binoculars to tie their shoelaces.

Fennel Hudson

#65. Enough!" Romanoff barked. "Look around you. You're on a military transport. Nobody's flirting. S.H.I.E.L.D. does not run a dating service." "Well," Coulson said, "technically it's frowned upon, but I'd be lying if - " Romanoff glared at Coulson, and he fell silent.

Margaret Stohl

#66. You learn calmness from the lake; you learn power from the ocean waves; you learn goodness from the trees! Look around you! You are surrounded by the most excellent teachers of nature! If you can be an excellent student, then you will rise to be an excellent teacher!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#67. The purpose of fiction is not to make people seem nice. What makes anyone think people are nice? Look around you!

Elizabeth Strout

#68. When u feel low ... look around you,no one looks like you,no one will be able to do what you do..smile for being unique.

Singh Amendra

#69. Live life, because when you stop and look around, you see a wonderful world.

Maat Morrison

#70. The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

Joan Jett

#71. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.

Marc Andreessen

#72. You know why the International Worker's Day is important? Look around you, everything you see, every building, every school, every hospital, every road was built by the workers, by their elbow grease! And that's why it is important!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#73. That's insane.'
'If you look around, you won't find much that isn't.

Jasper Fforde

#74. If you just look around ... you'll see you got magic.

John Butler

#75. I don't have one specific dream role: I'm an actor, so I want to play everything. In this business, they'll pigeonhole you in two seconds if you're great at the role you play. Everyone assumes that you're really just like that character.

Jaime Pressly

#76. I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story.

C.S. Lewis

#77. The South is a region that history has happened to.

Richard M. Weaver

#78. I'm afraid that's the wicked way of the world. Everything's covered in smoke and mirrors.

Lemony Snicket

#79. You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!

J.K. Rowling

#80. Australians and the British are very similar: If you try and stand out in any way, and you try to reach for success, someone is gonna be there to cut you down.

Joel Edgerton

#81. Put your guns away and get him out,' he ordered brusquely. 'I'll keep you covered. Be careful of him. I don't want a corpse. And hurry up, it's getting light.

Ian Fleming

#82. I found out that many of our Catholics simply don't know what the church teaches, and why, on a lot of issues, and therefore are saying things that they think are okay. They simply don't know.

Roger Mahony

#83. Practice meditating on the heart chakra. This is only one of them, but it's quite good for the first few years of your meditative practice.

Frederick Lenz

#84. Most of the 16-year-olds I know are snotty brats that I wish I didn't know.

Michael Cera

#85. We take pride in making our Knockouts Division about wrestling, not about looking pretty.

Kurt Angle

#86. I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.

Pamela Anderson

#87. Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

Zig Ziglar