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Letter "S" » stares
«Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.»
Author: Alexander Graham Bell
(Educator, Inventor)
| About:
Opportunity,
Overcoming
| Keywords:
closing, door, late, so long, stare, stares, Too late
«Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.»
«It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.»
«The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.»
Author: Vance Havner
| Keywords:
followed, stair, stairs, stare, stares, steps, step up, The Vision, up the stairs, venture, ventured, venturing, vision
«I touch her hair. Her shoulders clench together and she stares at the ground. She looks like a stone bird. I am an iceberg. Everyday I float farther and farther out to sea. But that can't be. An iceberg feels no pain. An iceberg doesn't feel cold. I feel cold. I feel distant. There is no one. There is nothing. That's where I am. She won't look me in the eye anymore since I asked if I could kiss her. Even wanting turns her cold.»
«A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares»
Author: Igor Stravinsky
| Keywords:
convoy, eminence, plague, royal, royal family, stared, stares, zoo
«The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.»
«All that we are not stares back at what we are»
«The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose»
«In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
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