Quotes About Looking Carefully

#1. But looking at this closet, so nice and arranged with their crazy lives at rest among these carefully placed clothes and footwear, she felt good about where they were. "Normal" was not a bad things in this lunatic world; it really was. No matter how it happened to be defined. - Author: J.R. Ward

#2. There's something to be said for a disregard of fashion, but it has to be a carefully curated disregard. It works best, I think, on someone under 18. After the age of, say, 40, you can end up looking like a bag lady. - Author: Leon Max

#3. Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name ... Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents. - Author: George Eliot

#4. The allies are looking carefully at the relationship. - Author: James Appathurai

#5. I try to look at life carefully and reproduce life the way life is. It's a question of looking carefully at how it is. In life, you don't have total happiness. People always say that. But you don't have total sadness either, no matter what situation you are living in. - Author: Marjane Satrapi

#6. He saw that the Prisoner had listened carefully all the time, looking gently in his face
But evidently he did not want to reply. The old man longed for Him to say something, however bitter and terrible. But he suddenly approached the old man in silence and softly kissed him on the forehead. - Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. He bites his lip and slides closer along the bed. Reaching out slowly, he carefully pulls the hair band from my hair, releasing it from my ponytail, then he gently runs his fingers through the soft strands before suddenly snatching his hand away and looking down at the floor beneath his feet. - Author: Dannielle Wicks

#8. I went through my reasoning again, checking it carefully, looking for any indications that I had added things up wrong, and found none. I was as sure as I could be, and that's always a nice feeling. If I lived through all this, I must remember to have that feeling more often. - Author: Jeff Lindsay

#9. For a mother, mornings of young, school-age children are a carefully orchestrated combination of timing, skill, and luck. It's nothing short of an act of God to get three children to school by eight, looking halfway presentable. - Author: Jill Smokler

#10. Has dropped into the river, said Hurry, after looking carefully along - Author: James Fenimore Cooper

#11. I'm sworn to uphold his laws. Saying that you killed someone because they annoyed you isn't codified as acceptable, by those laws, anywhere I'm aware of."
"You are clearly not looking carefully enough. - Author: Michelle Sagara West

#12. As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children tend to look more carefully. - Author: Anthony Browne

#13. I've never been one to carefully calculate my career decisions, to sit on the outside looking in. I go with my passion and what moves me. - Author: Michael Douglas

#14. Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left. - Author: Jean Kerr

#15. What a storyteller does is *see* more than most of us. We say he's making up his stories, but he - or better yet, *she* - watches more carefully, and then tells us what we would have seen ourselves if we'd just stopped to look.
-Leah said - to Nadine, although she was looking at Marjorie (pg 138) - Author: Dean Hughes

#16. Like the bees, we are - only looking for sweet honey in the flowers, we are -
sensitive and at the same time carefully;
but we never destroy them. - Author: Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#17. So I got desperate. I was really panicking. Then I got this idea. I figured if I looked at people hitching rides, I might find somebody. One of them might turn out to be the right type of person, and willing to help me. I tried to choose pretty carefully. I only stopped for rough-looking men. - Author: Lee Child

#18. You don't buy all the clothes in the market. You choose slowly and carefully, asking the prices for each before buying. The same way you choose your friends, by looking into their lives carefully, before taking any as a companion, then dropping those that are not relevant. - Author: Michael Bassey

#19. When we walk upon Mother Earth,
we always plant our feet carefully
because we know the faces of our future generations
are looking up at us from beneath the ground.
we never forget them. - Author: Oren Lyons

#20. If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough. - Author: Jon Huntsman Jr.

#21. If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully. - Author: Dick Clark

#22. My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully. - Author: Javier Bardem

#23. The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead. - Author: Olive Schreiner

#24. Our relationships are precious, valuable treasures from heaven, and we should handle them carefully, always looking for ways to build bridges to each other's hearts. - Author: Victoria Osteen

#25. The fact that we can't see the beauty in something doesn't suggest that it's not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with a broad enough perspective to see it. - Author: Richard Carlson

#26. Then she would wander through fields, over simple, poor land, looking carefully and keenly all round her, still getting used to being alive in the world, and feeling glad that everything in it was right for her - for her body, her heart, and her freedom. - Author: Andrei Platonov

#27. [He] carefully put a funky-looking pair of reading glasses on her. "There we go. How are they?"
She blinked experimentally, peering around the room. "Good, I think. Thank you."
"Wear them the next time we f***. That would be thanking me."
"Aww. You say the sweetest things."
"Don't I? - Author: Kylie Scott

#28. Jackson," I asked carefully. "Are you on any illegal substances I should know about?"
"Nope."
"Eaten any strange looking mushrooms?"
"Not lately."
"Any near brushed with eternal damnation that might be affecting your judgement?"
He grinned. "That hard to believe, huh? - Author: Cecily White

#29. There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them. - Author: Peter T. King

#30. I was stuck on the side of a mountain in Scotland. I was looking down on emptiness. I lay on my back and looked around in panic. I prayed to God and relaxed. I realised if I turned carefully on my front I could see bits of grass to hold on to. - Author: Ivor Cutler