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Letter "L" » look up
«Look down at me and you see a fool; look up at me and you see a god; look straight at me and you see yourself»
«Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!/ O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! / The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!»
Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
(Poet, Priest)
| Keywords:
borough, citadel, citadels, folk, look up, skies, The Circle, The Citadel
«It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.»
«His wings are gray and trailing, Azrael, Angel of Death, And yet the souls that Azrael brings Across the dark and cold, Look up beneath those folded wings, And find them lined with gold»
Author: Robert Gilbert Welsh
| Keywords:
Angel of death, death angel, folded, gray, lined, look up, trailing, trails
«I believe you should place a woman on a pedestal - high enough so you can look up her dress»
«How does life become totally painful? By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.[?]But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which have hung a great many artificialities and which man has adorned with enormous numbers of lies. And man is prisoner of his own shadows. Now one of the things you can do with man is to get him to look up and find out that he can look through the shadows and look at the shadows and find out what they are.»
Author: L. Ron Hubbard
(Founder, Novelist, Writer)
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adorned, adorning, adorns, basically, composed, composes, enormous, find out, How does, hung, look up, numbers, of his own, onto, painful, prisoner, retreat, retreated, retreating, retreats, shadows, The Prisoner of, The Shadows, total, totally, truths
«I have had my dream -- like others --and it has come to nothing, so thatI remain now carelesslywith feet planted on the groundand look up at the sky.»
«I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Animals
| Keywords:
cats, dogs, equals, look up, look up to, pigs, treat, up to
«I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
atheist, conceive, conceives, conceiving, Down to Earth, earth, heavens, Heaven on Earth, look up, the Earth
«I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen.»
Author: Orson Welles
| Keywords:
convince, fold, get in, look up, movies, praying, screen, spotlight, spotlights, the screen, The SPOTLIGHT
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