Looking Down Quotes - Page 2

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  The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

  Jean Paul

  Inspirational, Faith, Angel

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• Compassion and pity are not the same: pity is looking down on someone, feeling sorry for them and offering nothing; compassion is seeing their pain and offering them understanding.

  Jasinda Wilder

  Sorry, Pain, Compassion

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• I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.

  Clark Gable

  Wrinkles, Want, Stranger

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• A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't," Finn replied absently, still looking down at the book. "That's such a fortune-cookie answer," I said with a laugh, and even he smirked at me.

  Amanda Hocking

  Wise, Book, Men

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.115, Pan Macmillan

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• I think where I differ a little bit, we absolutely have to think about the deficit looking down the road. And certainly that's something the president has said that we need to, as the economy recovers, have a plan in place for getting it down.

  Christina Romer

  Thinking, President, Littles

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• Why do people care what I'm wearing or what I'm eating, and why are people looking down on me because I'm not wearing high heels? That's the downside to being in the public eye.

  Ashley Greene

  Eye, High Heels, People

  Interview with Michael Sheen, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• What happiness it is to listen to rain at night; joyful relief, ease; a lapping-round and hushing and brooding tenderness, all are mingled together in the sound of the fast-falling rain. God, looking down upon the rainy earth, sees how faint are these lights shining in little windows, - how easily put out.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Rain, Fall, Night

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• It's a bit like the feeling I get when I'm standing on a cliff or high building, looking down at a suicidal drop. I start thinking about what would happen if I stepped off, the rush of the fall, the shattering collision, the quiet emptiness of death. Part of me wants to experience the thrill of complete surrender.

  Darren Shan

  Fall, Suicidal, Thinking

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• Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

  Joyce Meyer

  Heart, Independent, Pride

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• I know," he said, looking down at himself self-consciously. "I am not-I mean, I look-" "Beautiful," she said, and she meant it. "You look beautiful, James Carstairs.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Mean, Self

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• I know: If you're looking down at Earth, you're looking through an atmosphere that has a bit of haze in many places and not just occasional clouds.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Clouds, Atmosphere, Earth

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• 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.

  Ivor Cutler

  Scotland, Mountain, Sides

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• Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on the edge. We all are on the brink, and it takes a lot of nerve, a lot of energy, to teeter on the edge, looking over, looking down into the windy blackness and not being quite able to make out, through the yellow, stinking mist, just what lies below in the slime, in the oozing, vomit-streaked slime; and so I could go on, my thoughts, writing much, trying to find the core, the meaning for myself.

  Sylvia Plath

  Lying, Writing, Years

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.32, Anchor

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• Understand me: I wish to be a man from somewhere, a man among men. You see, a slave, when he passes by, weary and surly, carrying a heavy load, limping along and looking down at his feet, only at his feet to avoid falling down; he is in his town, like a leaf in greenery, like a tree in a forest, argos surrounds him, heavy and warm, full of herself; I want to be that slave, Electra, I want to pull the city around me and to roll myself up in it like a blanket. I will not leave.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Fall, Men, Cities

  "The Flies". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Orestes to Electra, Act 2, 1943.

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• Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

  Bob Barr

  Technology, Yield, Medicine

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• I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something terrible had happened and I wasn't in the right place.

  Jessica Lynch

  Moments, That Moment, Terrible

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• A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.

  Norman Reilly Raine

  Down And, Sticks, Fats

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• I have a strong theory that all the dead people are looking down and laughing and smiling and saying "Oh look, they are so upset about the death thing."

  Sark

  Strong, People, Laughing

  Source: www.shift-it-coach.com

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• I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.

  Eartha Kitt

  Poverty, Subway, Stills

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• I can’t help blushing and looking down at my feet. “It was nothing.” “It was literally everything to me.” I look up, putting on my best version of Eight’s teasing smile. “In that case, I think I deserve more than a gross hot dog.” Eight clasps his hands across his chest like I’ve wounded him. “You’re right! I’m a fool to think my life could be traded for a hot dog.” He grabs my hand and gets down on one knee, pressing his forehead to the back of my hand. “My savior, what can I ever do to repay you?

  Pittacus Lore

  Dog, Thinking, Deserve More

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• Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

  Walter Smith

  Work, Toil, Decay

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• I don't feel 'vibes' when I enter a building - don't feel the previous owners looking down on me. But I do know when a place feels friendly.

  Penelope Keith

  Friendly, Vibes, Building

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• It is natural that a man should consider the work of his hands or his brain to be useful and important. Therefore nobody will object to an ardent experimentalist boasting of his measurements and rather looking down on the 'paper and ink' physics of his theoretical friend, who on his part is proud of his lofty ideas and despises the dirty fingers of the other.
  Experiment and Theory in Physics

  Max Born

  Dirty, Men, Hands

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• You know how, when you fly from coast to coast on a really clear day, looking down from many miles up, you can see the little baseball diamonds everywhere? And every time I see a baseball diamond my heart goes out to it. And I think somewhere down there- I don't see any houses, I can hardly see any roads- but I know that people down there are playing the game we all love.

  Donald Hall

  Baseball, Heart, Thinking

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• I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen.

  Joshua Ferris

  Moving, Writing, Thinking

  "Writers' rooms: Joshua Ferris", www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2007.

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