Look The Other Way Quotes

#1. I, I am my own woman. I have not been, quote, 'bred' to look the other way. I look at that man back there in the green room straight on, eyes wide open, and I look at him with an open heart.

Maria Shriver

#2. It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

Tammy Baldwin

#3. Like any wise ruler, Abbot Arkos did not issue orders vainly, when to disobey was possible and to enforce was not possible. It was better to look the other way than to command ineffectually.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#4. It is easier to look the other way. But if you do, terrible things can happen.

Eve Bunting

#5. The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

Ugo Betti

#6. They are dazzled by all the money that they are being offered. That is what money does, Mma Ramotswe - you must have seen that. Sometime we need to look the other way when people put money in front of our noses. We have to look at the other things we can see so the money doesn't hide them.

Alexander McCall Smith

#7. Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.

W.S. Gilbert

#8. Something's getting in the way something's just about to break, I will try to find a place in the Diary of Jane, as I burn another page as I look the other way, I still try ti find my place in the Diary of Jane, so tell me how it should be

Breaking Benjamin

#9. I don't deal with the whole 'bad boy who doesn't call you.' That doesn't interest me at all, and I just look the other way.

Mackenzie Rosman

#10. Maybe, it takes a brave man to be with a woman like me. In relationships, I don't look the other way, and dim my voice when I have something to say. I learned that I simply don't do well with huge egos, for I always see myself as his equal.

Mirtha Michelle

#11. Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

#12. If you see faults in others, look the other way. Don't linger on imperfection.

Frederick Lenz

#13. You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

William Wilberforce

#14. I say to all those leaders: Do not look the other way, do not hesitate ... It is within your power to prevent a genocide.

Nelson Mandela

#15. The INS, by their actions, is telling would-be illegal aliens that if you don't get caught entering the U.S., we'll look the other way so you can stay.

Lamar S. Smith

#16. Your disapproval is noted. It is legitimate. You are welcome to disapprove. But you are not welcome to be ignorant, to look the other way, to be unable to perform - should you change your mind.

John Irving

#17. Sonething's getting in the way!
Something's just about to break!
I will try to find my place,
In the Diary of Jane.
As I burn another page,
As I look the other way,
I still try to find my place,
In the Diary of Jane ...

Breaking Benjamin

#18. If you have the power to put a stop to subjugation, yet look the other way while it happens, then you have done it yourselves,

Thucydides

#19. Maybe the truth doesn't exist if you look the other way.

Shannon Mullen

#20. Every generation is confronted anew with the task not to look the other way when injustice occurs ... Everyone is responsible for what he does and co-responsible for what he lets happen.

Richard Von Weizsaecker

#21. In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.

Yehuda Berg

#22. We are in front of a global scandal of around one billion - one billion people who still suffer from hunger today. We cannot look the other way and pretend this does not exist. The food available in the world is enough to feed everyone.

Pope Francis

#23. Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#24. Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.

Linda Chavez

#25. There is a new book out about Hillary Clinton that claims Bill is still having affairs but Hillary continues to look the other way. The only problem is when Hillary does look the other way Bill's having sex with a women over there too.

Jay Leno

#26. When I ask you what club to use, look the other way and don't answer.

Sam Snead

#27. I watched the sky as it turned from silver to grey to the colour of rain. Even the clouds tried to look the other way.

Markus Zusak

#28. This place has been my home. They liked me here. Not any more. Now they will look the other way. Now I don't belong.

David Millar

#29. This is not love. It is a crime ... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.

Salma Hayek

#30. When robbed, the rich cry out for protection and prosecution. When stealing, they expect the judiciary to look the other way.

Steven Erikson

#31. I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.

Joe Biden

#32. God, she was convinced, would look the other way. It was Christmas after all.

Dahlia Schweitzer

#33. Office life is very, very strange. It's like no other way of living. You have an intimacy with people who you work with in the office, yet if you meet them on the streets, you both look the other way because you're embarrassed.

John Banville

#34. The Kennedy home was a place of much action and laughter, a lively, brawling mob of children overseen by a mother who knew when to look the other way.

James David Barber

#35. In a crime there is always a perpetrator and a victim. If you look the other way, do not get involved, stay neutral, or remain silent, you will always help the perpetrator and never the victim.

Vivien Spitz

#36. Look, tiny - i'm trying to be on my best behavior, but you have to understand - i'm always standing on the edge of something bad. and sometimes someone like you can make me look the other way, so that i don't know how close i am to falling over. but i always end up turning my head. always.

David Levithan

#37. There's nowhere in New York to go and have your emotions to yourself. People just look the other way because every day people see someone crying on the subway!

Lennon Parham

#38. What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.

Elizabeth Smart

#39. You think you're the foreigner here, and I'm the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that ... to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I'm a foreigner, too.

Barbara Kingsolver

#40. How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.

John Ashcroft

#41. People who look the other way when they see these war criminals are smaller criminals themselves.

Malalai Joya

#42. I guess I'm going to look the other way while Finn steals third.

Megan Matthews

#43. Okay, I'm gonna do something slightly illegal now, so you just look the other way for a second.

Hiromu Arakawa

#44. It's always difficult to see yourself as other people do, but I'm realistic about my appearance. I wasn't born with one of those pretty, pretty faces, so I've never been absorbed with the way I look. I just try to make the most of what I've got.

Alison Jackson

#45. I look over to the other side of the road and watch Griggs as he walks. It's a lazy walk but so full of confidence that you want to be standing behind him all the way.

Melina Marchetta

#46. You don't see the world the way other people do. And when you let your guard down, the way you think, the way you say things ... you make people look at things differently. You make people feel things.

Priscilla Glenn

#47. Look at music for what it's worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, people are still buying CDs and going to record stores. But in America, it's all about digital. The game is breaking down. But, look at me, you need to know how to play the game the right way.

Snoop Dogg

#48. When you look out the other way toward the stars you realize it's an awful long way to the next watering hole.

Loren Acton

#49. Many questing young people and stressed older people nowadays seek relaxation through meditation. They look for it in Hindu, Buddhist and other Eastern religions. They are often surprised to learn that there is such a way within the Christian tradition, a way that is known as contemplation.

Ray Simpson

#50. One thing a narcissist doesn't like is to look in a mirror that is in any way genuinely reflective of what's on the other side of it.

Jay Parini

#51. I've always thought that was the lamest argument - that we need some people to be poor in order to remind the rest of us to be grateful. All that really means is that someone has to suffer poverty so other people can feel better about themselves. What a selfish way to look at the world.

Josephine Angelini

#52. When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then be seen in reverse, and will appear to be by the hand of some other master, and you will be better able to judge of its faults than in any other way.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#53. I cannot look at you with anything other than abhorrence, much less affection! I couldn't bare your presence when we were children and, I'm afraid to say, the repulsive way at which you have grown to be has made it even worse! You have taken everything from me...

Madeline Courtney

#54. But you could also look at it the other way. Like you're saying no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.

Sarah Dessen

#55. The way I look at life, and the way I look at the reality of Parkinson's, is that sometimes it's frustrating and sometimes it's funny. I need to look at it that way, and I think other people will look at it that way.

Michael J. Fox

#56. What may seem like a reasonable way of protecting oneself can look very different from the other side of the border.

Margaret MacMillan

#57. I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.

Charles De Lint

#58. Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it's different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa.

Andy Warhol

#59. Look at that. There one family lives, kitchen is in China, bedroom is in Myanmar. In this way, this family eats in one country, sleeps in other. I think this house been standing there for many centuries, yes, long time, before anyone decided where one country stops, the other starts

Amy Tan

#60. You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other.

John Lennon

#61. The truth," said Amar, taking a step closer to me, "is that you look neither lovely nor demure. You look like edges and thunderstorms. And I would not have you any other way.

Roshani Chokshi

#62. When I'm up to something I find it very hard to realize that I probably look no different from the way I look on other occasions.

Iris Murdoch

#63. It was one of those ones they call screwball comedies, where people mislead and ill-treat each other in the most shocking and baffling way possible, then forgive and forget about it because they happen to like the look of each other. Only they call it falling in love.

Helen Oyeyemi

#64. I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

Cyndi Lauper

#65. Looking back in retrospect, there were some great moments working with some great people, ... I don't know quite how to put it into words. I don't look at it quite the same way other people do.

Dave Mason

#66. ...sometimes there are moments in your life that are more important than some of the other moments but that they can slip past you before you get a chance to look at them closely enough, the way a leaf sweeps past you in a river and disappears.

Donald Paterson

#67. I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.

Hugh Jackman

#68. And just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's, that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work. What might look like the perfect life - or even an okay life - to you might not be so okay for the person living it. God,

Michael Thomas Ford

#69. If you take a look at the way the premium content is monetized, there's a lot of different models out there. Sometimes you pay for an individual episode, for example on iTunes. Other times you pay for a subscription. And other times it's free ad-supported.

Jason Kilar

#70. When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you're writing about?'

Marya Hornbacher

#71. Ojiisan says if you want to understand a people, look at their language. The words write the history, not the other way around.

Leza Lowitz

#72. As we're standing there I realize we're almost exactly the same height. We must look like the dark and light side of an Oreo cookie, and I think how just as easily it could have been the other way around. She could be blocking my path; I could be trying to slip around her into the dark.

Lauren Oliver

#73. I feel empowered the fact that I can look the way that I do on stage and in photos - I can look that way any time I want. And I feel like it's important message to other women that they can do it, too.

Dita Von Teese

#74. I go to goth clubs dressed as a frat guy so I can stand around and look terribly uncomfortable. At frat parties I do the same thing, but the other way around.

Myles Munroe

#75. Dear Girls Across the Globe,
Let's stop body-shaming each other with hurtful comments about how another girl looks or doesn't look. We are all beautiful in our own unique way; so let's speak about each other with the dignity that we would want others to have when they speak about us.

Miya Yamanouchi

#76. You're the woman in my life," he said. "Another thing about me and my brothers? We look after the women in our lives. We don't know any other way.

Nora Roberts

#77. People look at my tattoos, and the majority of them are religious images, so people think, 'Oh, he must be very religious'. I respect all religions, but I'm not a deeply religious person. But I try and live life in the right way, respecting other people.

David Beckham

#78. I just think they look good on people. You spend a lot of time in the mirror looking at yourself when you have tattoos. Same way with other people. It just looks good.

The Rev

#79. For a long time I've walked through this world with the desire, like in Rear Window, to look into other people's lives because I know that there is a way in which I am the same as so many of the strangers that I see.

Will Oldham

#80. What you can do with visual effects is enhance the look of the character, but the actual integrity of the emotional performance and the way the character's facial expressions work, that is what is going to be created on the day with other actors and the director.

Andy Serkis

#81. She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.

Nicholas Sparks

#82. I hesitated. Karla once said that men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, she said, it's the other way around.

Gregory David Roberts

#83. The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.

Elbert Hubbard

#84. There are two ways to look at how life works and how people find their paths. One way is you take your time and try different things out. The other is you settle in early. I was into cooking very early.

Michael Mina

#85. We had principles in mathematics that were granted to be absolute in mathematics for over 800 years, but new science has gotten rid of those absolutism, gotten forward other different logics of looking at mathematics, and sort of turned the way we look at it as a science altogether after 800 years.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#86. But that's the Way, and there is no other. And once his mind's made up, the trembling and aimless walking stops, and he can look doom in the face without flinching. ("Jane Brown's Body")

Cornell Woolrich

#87. I think laughter between people is a holy form of connection, of communion. It's the way you and I look at each other and without words, say, I get exactly what you're saying. And so, it's important to me.

Brene Brown

#88. I enjoy thinking about how paintings can change depending on where they are - how they look in a gallery or in relation to other paintings, or in different rooms. Paintings can change the way we experience and see the world.

Stephen Beal

#89. Look at it this way: We're two people who happen to have a lot in common, a connection most people would kill for, we trust each other, and we have the kind of sex that people base pornos on. The fact that we're both men really doesn't make a difference, does it?

L.A. Witt

#90. I've lived through the shooting of movie, the editing and every other process along the way, so it's not for me to really judge it. I'll probably look at it again five years from now to get a fresh feel for it.

Clint Eastwood

#91. What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?

Steven Wright

#92. My looks aren't something that come dazzlingly through in everything I do. I can be made to look one way or the other fairly easily ... I am still not recognised on the street that much.

Colin Firth

#93. You need to study other people's work. Their approaches to problem solving and the tools they use give you a fresh way to look at your own work.

Gary Kildall

#94. You know in sixth grade, when they made all of us girls go into this other room and watch a video about getting our periods and stuff? I bet while we were gone, the boys were watching a video about how to look at each other in that infuriating way.

Meg Cabot

#95. When you're on set you don't realize the way something is going to look since you're on the other side of the camera.

Jesse Eisenberg

#96. Part of our brand is that we're pretty understated in what we do. If you look at other technology companies, they might preannounce things, and it will be a couple years before they really happen, and they don't happen in the way they said they would.

Larry Page

#97. I've thought and thought, but there's no other way to give you the truth except to hide it in a story and let you find your own way inside. All stories contain a truth if you look hard enough - but it might not be a good truth.

Kirsty Logan

#98. Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.

Kate Moss

#99. When you see him dressed normally he looks like a kid on his way to school. But when you see him in shorts on the pitch he makes all the other players look like students in front of a master.

Graham Hunter

#100. Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.

Dan Castellaneta