Quotes About Gazers

#1. If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.

Chelsea Clinton

#3. Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.

Samuel Johnson

#4. A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.

William Wycherley

#5. It costs me nothing for curtains, for I have no gazers to shut out but the sun and moon, and I am willing that they should look in ... and if he [the sun] is sometimes too warm a friend, I find it still better economy to retreat behind some curtain which nature has provided.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

Roger L'Estrange

#7. Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.

Tad Williams

#8. Bret Michaels and Dee Snider and I know how to step on a stage and front a band, and we're not ashamed to. We're not shoe gazers.

Sebastian Bach

#9. The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also,Government is for the living, and not for the dead; it is the living only that has any right in it.

Thomas Paine

#10. Every time the Secretary of Defense tries to get a hand on his many intelligence programs, we hear warnings about the dire consequences to liberty. When you look behind those warnings, what you really see is the CIA trying to preserve its perks.

Mark Riebling

#11. You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it?
There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It's just a matter of will power: The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

Junot Diaz

#12. The baby turtles are turning away from the ocean. It's easy to see why. The black waves lap up the moonbeams, and the starlight on the inky surface of the water gives off such a pale glow when you compare it to the megawatt flashlights that Raffy is swirling in hypnotic circles.

Karen Russell

#13. A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.

Lucy Larcom

#14. INERTIA: Unless an object is acted on by friction from an outside force, it will spiral through space, in the same direction at the same speed - indefinitely!

Karen Russell

#15. There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.

Damien Hirst

#16. Since we are dead in sin, a spiritual light and flame in the heart suitable to the nature of the object of our worship, cannot be raised in us without the operation of supernatural grace ... such a worship God must have, whereby he is acknowledged to be the true sanctifier and quickener of the soul.

Stephen Charnock

#17. As I stare at the blank page, I am at once awash inwords but unable to find the ones I want to use.

Carrie Ryan

#18. When I had asked Mrs. Flowers how she held up in the face of all the death and violence within her neighborhood, she had given me a simple answer: This family talks to God.

Jonathan Kozol

#19. Raffy has this magical, abracadabrical ability to transform all his "ifs" into "whens".

Karen Russell