Silently Watching Quotes

#1. Had stood there silently, watching, without interest or purpose, like a chemical compound on a photographic plate, absorbing visual shapes because they were there to be absorbed, but unable ever to form any estimate of the objects of her vision.

Ayn Rand

#2. Standing up here on the hill away from all humans - seeing these Wonders taking place before one's eyes - so silently ... watching the silence of Nature. No school - no church - is as good a teacher as the eye understandingly seeing what's before it. I believe this more firmly than ever.

Alfred Stieglitz

#3. Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.

Ezra Taft Benson

#4. The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

Allan Bloom

#5. If you have to choose between the two hopeless situations, choose the one which gives you at least an opportunity to fight!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. It's weird for people who still have feelings to be around depressed people. They try to help you have feelings again so things can go back to normal, and it's frustrating for them when that doesn't happen.

Allie Brosh

#7. Working on 'Parks' was like heaven because everyone there was just intimidatingly intelligent and funny, and we would have these hilarious debates about really tangential things. It was inspiring because I felt really challenged to be my best.

Chelsea Peretti

#8. You must remember that our God has all knowledge and all wisdom, and that therefore it is very possible He may guide you into paths wherein He knows great blessings are awaiting you, but which, to the shortsighted human eyes around you, seem sure to result in confusion and loss.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#9. I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot.

Don Adams

#10. Watching the couple, she silently wishes she had just cleaned out her damn coffee pot.

Solange Nicole

#11. When he kissed me again, I thought I would break apart with need. He pulled back, watching me silently. A question waited for me in his eyes. "Yes," I murmured. I kissed him again and there were no more questions to be answered.

Andrea Cremer

#12. Any time people create a "black market" to avoid government regulation, they are engaged in, and promoting, free market economics.

Dave Champion

#13. He walked slowly up and down the rows, glancing at titles and authors, hoping to find something useful. He was so intent in his search that he failed to notice the dark, hooded figure that entered the archives and stood silently in the doorway, watching him

Drew Karpyshyn

#14. You won't know until it's over. You won't find me in time.

Julie Anne Peters

#15. Go up on to a high mountain, Zion, herald of glad tidings; cry out at the top of your voice, Jerusalem, herald of good news! Fear not to cry out and say to the cities of Judah: Here is your God!

Anonymous

#16. I think handbags, not so much clothes anymore, but I think you can tell a fashion victim by their handbag.

Joanna Lumley

#17. Julian remained where he was, watching him silently. "Loving each other isn't enough now, is it?" he asked, his voice flat and lifeless.
When Cameron looked back at Julian, he couldn't keep the pain out of his eyes. "I'm afraid it's too much," he said, voice breaking.

Abigail Roux

#18. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

John Ruskin

#19. The silence grew, and I felt silently inspected. I'd been caught. It didn't help that Jesus' tiny decapitated porcelain head was watching me from the sideboard, judging. He knew.

Christina Lauren

#20. I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.

John Edward

#21. Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.

John Wooden