Top 100 Quotes About Look Away
#1. As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.
Quentin Blake
#2. The little ball went up, then down, then up in his palm. My inner golden retriever couldn't look away.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#3. By her stare, this woman settled a solemn awe upon my heart, and I was frightened by the degree to which I felt humbled and by the intensity with which I felt loved, and I had to look away.
Dean Koontz
#4. The music slowed. She pulled away first, slinking back the required four steps. Merik didn't look away from her face, and he only distantly noticed that, as she pulled away, his Windwitchery seemed to settle. Her skirts stopped swishing, her hair fluttered back to her shoulders.
Susan Dennard
#5. My whole life has been instinctual for me. I wouldn't do well in the computer world. My children look at me for a question and then they quickly look away because they know that I'm not going to know how to make Super Mario or do anything.
Kevin Costner
#6. It looks like an asylum landed here," Andrew quipped, poking his head out of Oliver's pocket. "Ooh, I spot an ass-shaped tent."
"What? Seriously?" Sophie said, surprised. However, she was quick to look away. "Oh. You meant that kind of ass. Jeez, Andrew.
Zeinab Alayan
#7. If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences I've had, that need to be transformed.
Lilith Saintcrow
#8. We must live with our hearts
in our hands - like Mary.
We must hold the blood-
red heart and no be disappointed
when others look away.
Kelli Russell Agodon
#9. And I suddenly understand what to do when bad things come. You don't hide, you don't look away; you get right up on them, you take the reins and you ride.
Joan Bauer
#10. The match will be shown on Match of the Day later this evening and if you don't want to know the result look away now as we show you Tony Adams lifting the cup for Arsenal.
Steve Rider
#11. It may not have been love at first sight, but when i truely saw you, i know i could never look away.
Matt Trevitz
#12. I stared at him. Did he really just say that? Did he remember? The way he looked back at me, one eyebrow raised, I knew he did. And this time, I was the one to look away. Because I remembered. I remembered everything.
Jenny Han
#13. I do look away now. I don't think I'm capable of loving anyone that much.
Bree Despain
#14. When you have seen the things I have seen and traveled all over the world, you would not be honest to yourself and the world to [look away].
Michael Jackson
#15. I'm going to love Lily how I want to love her.
Overwhelmingly, uncompromisingly.
Look away if you have to.
Krista Ritchie
#16. He realized that his eyes were fixed on the scene not out of duty, but from sheer inability to look away from the sheen of mingled rain and blood that gleamed on muscle, tightened in anguish to a curve of wrenching beauty.
Diana Gabaldon
#17. Once my gaze met his, it was impossible to look away. His eyes were like the cover of a book - giving you hints but not the whole story. And I wanted to know the story. If I searched his eyes long and hard enough, maybe what I craved would seep out.
Penelope Douglas
#18. The monkey's face had more emotions than a human's: curiosity, pity, exhaustion, like he'd already seen too much. Danny had to look away.
Jennifer Egan
#19. What's that thing you wrote about Simon once, that his eyes followed Baz 'like he was the brightest thing in the room, like he cast everything else into shadow'? That's you. You can't look away from him.
Rainbow Rowell
#20. Always look on the bright side. And if there is no bright side?
Look away.
Joanne M. Harris
#21. My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.
Arthur Hertzberg
#22. He blinked. He had the sense that he was lost in those quiet gray eyes, unable to look away from her. He was a duke. She was a - what had she called herself? A half-blind near-spinster. It shouldn't even have been a fair fight.
Courtney Milan
#23. I think that's why I find him hard to look away from, though, because I've always found guys more attractive when they put less effort into trying to appear attractive.
Tate
Colleen Hoover
#24. I wasn't showing what I really felt. Real grief is ugly and uncomfortable. People look away from grief the same way they look away from severed limbs or gaping wounds. What they want is pain like death on a stage: beautiful, bloodless, presented for their entertainment
Sarah Rees Brennan
#25. And Bo wanted to stop looking, to stop seeing, to make himself look away. But he couldn't.
Cruce Stark
#26. You can't hide and pretend to be someone you're not,Pearl. You can never belong to anyone else."
She set her jaw, refusing to flinch or look away. "Anyone besides myself, you mean? That's true. Though it was always true.
Theresa Romain
#27. I wait for him to announce my presence, holding his gaze, refusing to look away, determined that this beautiful boy see the face he sentences to death with this next words.
Sophie Jordan
#28. To look away when something terrible is happening does not mean that the terrible thing ceases to happen. Someone
Jodi Taylor
#29. I couldn't look away. My guts wrenched with the transient impact, like walking through a humming electric shock.
S.J. Lomas
#30. Hope radiates outward from the center of our concerns. Hope dares us to stare the miraculous in the eye and have the courage not to look away.
Terry Tempest Williams
#31. we're beholden not to look away from the things we fear or revere.
Michael Paterniti
#32. I exchange a long glance with June. She's okay, she's unharmed. And yet, I'm afraid that she'll disappear if I'm careless enough to look away.
Marie Lu
#33. Being sick is like walking around with a microscope strapped to your face at all times with your own body squished beneath the slide. You don't look away, at first because you can't - you're too sick - and then because you're afraid that if you do, you might miss a symptom or a sign and die.
Jessica Fechtor
#34. Do you know why it is that, even today, women are counseled to scream "fire" instead of "rape"? Because the fundamental truth about humanity is that most people would rather look away.
Michelle Hodkin
#36. My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.
Chris Abani
#37. He shrugged, looking right into my eyes. "Right now, this is all I feel." He held our intertwined hands up for me to see and I wanted to look away, but I couldn't break the hold his gaze had on me, like he could see more than anyone else saw. Things I couldn't see myself.
Rachel Vincent
#38. Rachel paused. "Do I need to get your mom? Did you just find out you're pregnant, and you don't know the baby daddy?" "No! And you really need to lay off Sixteen and Pregnant." "It's a train wreck. You wanna look away, but you just can't," Rachel said in defense of her reality show obsession.
Calia Read
#39. They [my eyes] immediately started to tear up, tears being your eyes' way of forbidding you to look away,of forcing you to look at the world you've made or unmade.
Brock Clarke
#40. In general, we are sort of conditioned to see a different body type as acceptable and maybe look away when the other body type arrives.
Leonard Nimoy
#41. ."Therapy," Gary said. "I'm going to need so much therapy. It's like watching cows mating and it's wet and sticky and uncomforttable but I can't look away because I'm worried some of it is going to get on me.".
T.J. Klune
#42. I'll keep looking- till that watery reflection of mine in your eye, rolls down as a tear. I'll keep looking till we finally look away like our lives never met. Let's cheat destiny as if we never knew each other. Let's do this last thing together.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#43. The love in his eyes was so powerful, I needed to look away. Seth had an amazing grasp of the English language, but there were days when that skill was nothing compared to what he told me in his looks.
Richelle Mead
#44. Being thankful for life itself is a way of making life better. When we look away from our problems, even for a short time, and generate joy in our hearts, we find that the world seems to change a bit.
John Harricharan
#45. Because we looked away in the past, does that mean we can look away now?
Page 76
Marina Budhos
#46. If I gaze at my beloved
she may feel embarrassed
and if I do not,
she will feel neglected.
I can see the stars reflecting
in the calm water of her face
but if I look away
I lose my clarity.
Rumi
#47. I look away so that my eyes don't betray the hurt I feel
Adele Parks
#48. I found the strength to see her, to cheer her, to not look away. It was taking a toll, but it was a toll I willingly paid.
David Levithan
#49. And then something truly bizarre happened. I could feel his touch through our eyes. I couldn't look away from him.
P.C. Cast
#50. There's something about you, Lorenzo," I say, shaking my head as I look away, unconsciously returning his smile. "Sometimes I think you might just be human."
"You're making shit weird again, Scarlet."
I roll my eyes. "Whatever.
J.M. Darhower
#51. When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
Gary Shteyngart
#52. I was born with the Sight, Ink," she said, voice trembling. "So tell me, why were you the first person I'd ever seen from the Twixt?"
They stared at each other. His answer slipped through his lips.
"Because I saw you," he confessed. "And I couldn't look away.
Dawn Metcalf
#53. Can you not see [hope] burning in her eyes? Does it not make you want to look away when you have none to give in return?
Melina Marchetta
#54. He stared at Esmelda with a face like glass, nothing hidden. What I saw there wasn't steel or fire or stone. Feelings stirred in me and I had to look away. I knew what I saw because I'd felt them, too - understanding, sadness, compassion ... forgiveness.
Deborah Wheeler
#55. She smiled for the first time, and he almost had to look away, as if something that nice didn't belong in such a glum and gray place, as if he had no right to look at her expression.
James Dashner
#56. You hit me the instant I saw you." he said, gruffly. "I couldn't look away. I wanted you immediately. Excessively. Almost violently.
Sylvia Day
#57. Do you see me, Shea?"
Never had I seen anyone so clearly. "I will never look away.
A.L. Jackson
#58. Derek looked around, like he was searching for something to use. Then he stripped off his shirt. I tried not to look away. Not that he looked bad without his shirt. The opposite, actually, which is why ... Let's just say friends are really better when they're fully clothed.
Kelley Armstrong
#59. It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
Kara Swisher
#60. The mountains are so beautiful they make me ache inside because the moment I look away I know I shall need to see them again. And I cannot spend the rest of my life standing on the spot starting at shifting sunlight and mist and shadows across the sea.
Anne Perry
#61. least. I couldn't look away when I saw you. You had this expression on your face like you were imagining heaven.
L. H. Cosway
#62. When you look away from a homeless person, you diminish their humanity and your own.
Brene Brown
#63. It's hard to look away from the tiny curve of her waist.
Rae Carson
#64. I see you now and I can't look away
Amy Daws
#65. Except you.
The revelation was so blindingly sudden the words almost slipped out, and she had to bit her tongue and look away. pg 391, A Matter of Magic
Patricia C. Wrede
#66. Experienced Christian, boast not in your experience; you will trip yet if you look away from him who is able to keep you from falling. Ye whose love is fervent, whose faith is constant, whose hopes are bright, say not, "We shall never sin," but rather cry, "Lead us not into temptation.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#67. Lily gave me a nod and a smile. "I wish I could be more like you. You're so confident in who you are."
I had to look away from her eyes full of admiration. "I don't know who I am, Lily. I'm just really good at pretending.
Nicole Williams
#68. I have to force myself to look away from those irresistible dimples; they unleash the desire between my legs.
Emily Rose Philips
#69. She was the only person in class who read her poem like it wasn't an assignment. She recited it like it was a living thing. Like something she was letting out. You couldn't look away from her as long as she was talking.
Rainbow Rowell
#70. Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with thought and care, so long will it give you its aid, but look away for an instant, be heedless or forgetful, and it has you by the throat.
Kamala Markandaya
#71. Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that one is claimed by what is being said.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
#72. You think I'm perfect?"
He didn't look away.Didn't look bashful or even nervous. Just stared at her, like she'd asked him if Luna orbited the Earth.Then he leaned over and brushed a kiss against her forehead.
"Just sort of," he said."You know.On a good day.
Marissa Meyer
#73. Most young people seem to be behaving very intelligently: They look at things once in a while, but then they find it so idiotic and uncool that they just look away again. That is, provided they're not growing up in a family in which a drunk father is already watching pornos in the morning.
Volkmar Sigusch
#74. His eyes were wide, and they were asking if I would be his, simply and earnestly. I couldn't answer. I had to look away.
Sophie Sloane
#75. Even though the dance floor was filled with beauty and color enough to dazzle any eye, Odette had no desire to look away from Jorgen as she stepped toward him, clasped his hands, then let go as they stepped back.
Melanie Dickerson
#76. Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You don't stare at it. It's too risky. Ya get a sense of it and then you look away.
Jerry Seinfeld
#77. This is love if it's not with you, a terrible fiery something that makes people look away, and it feels like a punch in the throat.
Daniel Handler
#78. There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes.
Thomas Otway
#79. Parenting is a bit like baking a cake. You put all the right stuff in and do exactly what your mother wrote in the recipe but when you look away for just a second, someone bounces in front of the oven and you end up with something unexpected.
K.T. Bowes
#80. Heard a rumor you can't cook," he said.
She didn't look away from her reading. "You know rumors.
They're always true."
She had him there. According to some of the tabloids, he had fourteen love children, two with aliens and one with the sister of Bigfoot.
Jamie Farrell
#81. To be a leader meant that sometimes you had to look away from the pain
Gregory Benford
#82. Genuine transcendence doesn't just look away from human suffering and say, "I am at peace, so I'm at the mountaintop." Genuine transcendence looks human suffering in the eye and attains peace because of a faith in things unseen.
Marianne Williamson
#83. Our challenge is to not look away, but rather to transform the field; to create a new political conversation, our own conversation, out of which we can speak our truth in our own way.
Marianne Williamson
#84. I felt my heart swell and crack. Of course he was the most ruggedly, powerful beautiful man I'd ever seen. Of course he would be. Of course he would stare at me with eyes so understanding and expressive and intelligent that I couldn't and wouldn't dare look away.
Jasinda Wilder
#85. Don't look away from the arms of a moment.
Green Day
#86. Oi, stop looking at my nethers. Be a gentleman, look away. When a gal's in a predicament you should 'elp 'er out
James Minter
#87. Elena didn't look away - she'd rather face death than have her mind invaded, for what was that if not another form of crawling?
Nalini Singh
#88. I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.
Amanda Burton
#89. A great many of us engage in this kind of climate change denial. We look for a split second and then we look away. Or we look but then turn it into a joke ("more signs of the Apocalypse!"). Which is another way of looking away.
Naomi Klein
#90. To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
Akira Kurosawa
#91. The men laugh at the witty line, but it is not a belly laugh. Beasley's mouth is in a wide smile, but his eyes do not laugh, for there is little reason for joy. And if eyes are indeed mirrors of the soul, then they reflect an infinite sadness. I look away, afraid of what mine might reflect
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#92. Do you have a safe place, Becca?"
I release a shaky breath, but I can't seem to look away. "Yes," I whisper. And I hesitate, just for a moment, from telling him the truth. "You.
Jay McLean
#93. If a bout of "creepy face" sets in, the trick is to look away from the camera between shots and turn back only when necessary. This also limits how much of your soul the camera can steal.
Tina Fey
#94. Never, never be afraid to do what is right. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our souls when we look away. - Martin Luther King Jr
Harsh Mander
#95. I know I should look away, let him grieve in private, but I cannot. The sweet girl that I knew only briefly is the key to this gentle beast who has captured my heart.
Robin LaFevers
#96. All my adult life I have kept a distance from other people, it has been my way of coping, because I become so incredibly close to others in my thoughts and feelings of course, they only have to look away dismissively for a storm to break inside me.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#97. Time is a racehorse, eating up the furlongs as it gallops towards the finish line. Look away for a moment, be preoccupied for a moment, and then imagine what has passed you by.
William Boyd
#98. Good and evil, and joy and pain, and I and you- colored vapors did they seem to me before creative eyes. The creator wished to look away from himself,- and so he created the world.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#99. He stares at me, and I don't look away. He isn't a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive. Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It's my choice.
Veronica Roth
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