I Quotes
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“I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.”
“I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!”
“I look up to as God every person, thing or thought that makes life worth living one day longer”
“I look up to Bernard Hopkins as a fighter. I'm honored to be his co-main event and to be able to give a great performance.”
“I look up to every model who is confident and who knows what they want in life, and who is goal orientated. So the models like Naomi Campbell, Cara Delevingne, Jourdan Dunn, Kate Moss. I look up to them because they are focused on where they want to go.”
“I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.”
Source: Fathers and Sons
“I look up to Jimmy Fallon. He hosts talk shows as a fan himself, and that's how I do it. When the celebrities come in, I'm excited that they're there. It's not just like a formal, 'Hey, how are ya?' It's like, 'Dude, what the hell! So happy to see you!' That's what Jimmy Fallon does every time.”
“I look up to Mandy Moore, because she's really classy. But when it comes to music, I'm my own person.”
“I look up to my brother - he inspires me so much. He has always been my best friend. He knows everything. I left the house at 16 when I auditioned for 'American Idol' and he was 14. It was one of those things that was so sudden and neither of us expected it. He has been so supportive of me even though I know that every time I leave, it hurts him.”
“I look up to my father, because he's very, very experimental in his cuisine, and he puts a lot of love into things. He's the best. To me.”
“I look up to my mom. She's a beautiful woman.”
“I look up to myself, tryna get better. Always tryna get better.”
“I look up to people that are much older than me, so being a mentor is a full time job.”
“I look up to people who succeed in accomplishing their dreams.”
“I look up to say something but he puts his finger to my lips and whispers, “Don’t talk. You’ll just spoil my fantasy of rescuing an innocent damsel in distress as soon as you open your mouth.”
Source: World After
“I look up to see how far I have swum. The sunlight is barely visible, but still there. I then curl up in a ball and pray to the Lord to take me quickly.”
Source: The Birth
“I look up to the sky and scream to the wind, 'Give me adventure.' She whispers back, 'You are braver than you know.”
“I Look Up
Whenever I am lost,
I don’t look left or right.
I don’t attempt to control a path
I know I will navigate through
at some point.
I know.
I look up.”
Source: Loving this Life
“I look up, and stop breathing. Eyes glitter in the darkness. Dark shapes sit in the car, more numerous than we are. The factionless.”
“I look upon [writing about religion] as a nice way to get by in this precarious world, though I've never been able to do it myself.”
“I look upon a good physician, not so properly as a servant to nature, as one, that is a counsellor and friendly assistant, who, in his patient's body, furthers those motions and other things, that he judges conducive to the welfare and recovery of it; but as to those, that he perceives likely to be hurtful, either by increasing the disease, or otherwise endangering the patient, he thinks it is his part to oppose or hinder, though nature do manifestly enough seem to endeavour the exercising or carrying on those hurtful motions.”
Source: Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature
“I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity.”
“I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.”
“I look upon all the world as my parish.”
“I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress.”
“I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.”
“I look upon cancer in the same way that I look upon heart disease, arthritis, high blood pressure, or even obesity, for that matter, in that by dramatically strengthening the body's immune system through diet, nutritional supplements, and exercise, the body can rid itself of the cancer, just as it does in other degenerative diseases. Consequently, I wouldn't have chemotherapy and radiation because I'm not interested in therapies that cripple the immune system, and, in my opinion, virtually ensure failure for the majority of cancer patients.”
“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.”
Source: The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself
“I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business, pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore.”
Source: Fitzosborne's Letters on Several Subjects
“I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.”
“I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent notions and golden passages that are in it for his own benefit, that they may return with him when the owner shall call for the book again: but in case this excellent book shall be thrown into a corner and no use made of it, it justly provokes the owner to take it away in displeasure. --Funeral of John Upton, Esq”
“I look upon India-U.S. nuclear cooperation as an act of historic reconciliation.”
“I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.”
Source: The Modern Chesterfield
“I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.”
Source: The Modern Chesterfield
“I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me”
Source: The Tatler
“I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.”
“I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too.”
Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations
“I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter”
“I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.”
“I look upon myself as a politician. That isn't a dirty word.”
“I look upon ourselves as partners in all of this, and that each of us contributes and does what he can do best. And so I see not a top rung and a bottom rung - I see all this horizontally - and I see this as part of a matrix. And I see every human being as having a purpose, a destiny, if you like - the destiny that exists in each of us - and find ways and means to provide such opportunities for everyone.”
“I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted.”
Source: Letters Addressed to the Countess of Ossory, from the Year 1769 to 1797: Now First Printed from Original Mss. Edited, with Notes, by R. Vernon Smith
“I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister.”
“I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.”
“I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises (excepting the public preaching) in which Christians can engage. They have a direct tendency to kill a worldly, trifling spirit, and to draw down a Divine blessing upon all our concerns, compose differences, and enkindle (at least maintain) the flames of Divine love amongst brethren.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. J. Newton ...: With the Memoirs of the Author and General Remarks on His Life, Connections, and Character
“I look upon pride as a sin.”
“I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat her handmaid with proper respect, and not to prostitute her services for controversial or personal purposes.”
“I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.”
“I look upon The Animals, they were a great band initially, we left our mark, but thing was it was a band that couldn't live up to its name so I soldiered on. On one level, it was devastating for a while. On another level, maybe I should thank them for helping me make my own way in my own career.”
“I look upon the gift of my life as a wondrous journey.”
Source: Daybreak: Meditations for Women Survivors of Sexual Abuse