Passively Watch Quotes

#1. I often wish I could just passively watch people without being expected to participate myself, like television.

M.E. Thomas

#2. Work-worn, on a gingham towel draped over the cupboard. "All of them stillborn." I smother a sigh with a smile, weak and resigned. He takes it regardless. "Yeah ... " He too smiles soft, a hand letting

Ann Voskamp

#3. Love and desire...they aren't the same but they go hand in hand. To say you love someone is to say you have the desire for good things for them, that you desire to DO good things for them. One of the worst things the enemy does is change the definition of love in the minds of a people.

J. Evan Johnson

#4. He almost died," I pointed out. "Not that I have any other experience of it, but I would guess that when people almost die, their worth automatically goes up, at least to some small degree.

Lauren Baratz-Logsted

#5. Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming ... I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all.

Shannon Hale

#6. Even in the most richly communicative and reciprocal love affairs, it is nearly impossible to sustain that initial state of rapture beyond a few weeks.

Ian McEwan

#7. Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds, and I probably know little of these years through which I busily work and live, beyond this, how sin and frailty deface them, and how mercy crowns them.

William E. Gladstone

#8. We really know time, says Heidegger, because we know we are going to die. Without this passionate realization of our mortality, time would be simply a movement of the clock that we watch passively, calculating its advance - a movement devoid of human meaning.

William Barrett

#9. Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

David Mitchell

#10. Tell Jim he was born at six in the morning.

John Joyce

#11. Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#12. the technology is not a single cause of a cultural transformation like the Renaissance, but it is, in many ways, just as important to the story as the human visionaries that we conventionally celebrate.

Steven Johnson

#13. There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

Robert Green Ingersoll

#14. No historians or librar ians were harmed in the making of this book, but some were badgered extensively with questions.

Libba Bray