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“The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.”

Looks Problem Lying Feet Clouds

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“It's not enough to shelve your own competitive streak. You have to try, consciously, to help others succeed. Some people feel this is like shooting themselves in the foot - why aid someone else in creating a competitive advantage? I don't look at it that way. Helping someone else look good doesn't make me look worse. In fact, it often improves my own performance, particularly in stressful situations.”

“I'm magnificent! I'm five feet eleven inches and I weigh one hundred thirty-five pounds, and I look like a racehorse.”

Looks Five Feet Hundred Thirty Pounds Inches Magnificent Eleven Racehorses

Author:Julie Newmar

“An altered look about the hills; A Tyrian light the village fills; A wider sunrise in the dawn; A deeper twilight on the lawn; A print of a vermilion foot; A purple finger on the slope; A flippant fly upon the pane; A spider at his trade again; An added strut in chanticleer; A flower expected everywhere.”

Looks Light Feet Flower Spring Trade Fingers Deeper Expected Hills Dawn Print Village Twilight Sunrise Spiders Purple April Altered Springtime Lawns Slopes Flippant

Book:The Works of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Works of Emily Dickinson

“Look at that mallard as he floats on the lake; see his elevated head glittering with emerald green, his amber eyes glancing in the light! Even at this distance, he has marked you, and suspects that you bear no goodwill towards him, for he sees that you have a gun, and he has many a time been frightened by its report, or that of some other. The wary bird draws his feet under his body, springs upon then, opens his wings, and with loud quacks bids you farewell.”

Source: Ornithological Biography: Or An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America; Accompanied by Descriptions of the Objects Represented in the Work Entitled The Birds of America, and Interspersed with Delineations of American Scenery and Manners. 5 Vol. Il. Q.

“Two days ago we waded through the mud out to this grave beneath the pines at the foot of the hill to place a Christmas wreath on it, hoping he would look down from the Paradise of Ten Billion Trees and Unrationable Dog Biscuits and pity us.”

Looks Two Tree Feet Dog Ten Billions Graves Pity Hills Paradise Mud Two Days Biscuits Wreaths

Author:Eugene O'Neill

“Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,And Thy pierced feet I clasp;Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;On me, with compassion fraught,Let Thy glances fall.Thy cross of agony,My Beloved, look on me;Turn me wholly unto Thee;"Be thou whole," say openly:"I forgive thee all.”

Looks Whole Turns Fall Jesus Compassion Feet Crosses Forgiving Thee Beloved Agony Glances Gracious Turn Me

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

“Allah created my tongue to speak. I don't have freedom to come , because Allah created my feet to walk. So I walk, and I speak, and I look, and I hear according to what God says.”

Looks Speak Walks Feet Tongue

Author:Anjem Choudary

“We can't have an idea of what life should look like, about how spirit should be manifesting as our very life, because all of those ideas would just be products of the past - something we learned, imagined, or desired. Once again, we find ourselves back in the unknown - not in the idea of the unknown, but in the lived reality of it. It's the mind humbled, on its knees, with bare feet and free of the known.”

Should Mind Looks Ideas Reality Past Spirit Known Feet Products Knees Manifest Bare Feet

Author:Adyashanti

“Sure, this country has a black president, but when you look at a black president, President Obama is left with his foot stuck in the mud from all of the Republicans with the way he's treated. We have moved in the right direction, and there have been improvements, but we still have a long ways to go in the country.”

Way Looks Long Has Beens Stills Country Left Black President Feet Republican Moved Improvement Stuck Treated President Obama Mud Long Way Right Direction Long Way To Go

Author:Hank Aaron

“If faith, then new birth; if new birth, then sonship; if sonship, then "an heir of God, and a joint-heir with Christ." But if you have not got your foot upon the lowest round of the ladder, you will never come within sight of the blessed face of Him who stands at the top of it, and who looks down to you at this moment, saying to you, "My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?”

Ifs Looks Children Moments Faces Father Christ Feet Cry Birth Sight Blessed Rounds My Children Lowest Ladders Joints Heirs Abba Abba Father

Book:Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester

Source: Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester

“A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want... I'm not trying to make paintings look like photos. I want to make paintings using photos as a reference, the way painters did when photography was first invented.”

Way Want Giving Trying Firsts Looks Kind Reality Feet Painting Photography Painter Maps

Author:Peter Doig

“It is reported of the peacock that priding himself in his gay feathers he ruffles them up; but spying his black feet he soon lets fall his plumes. So he that glories in his gifts and adornings should look upon his corruptions, and that will damp his high thoughts.”

Should Looks Fall Black Feet Pride Gay Glory Corruption Look Up Feathers Damp Peacock Ruffles

Book:The Works of Anne Bradstreet

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet

“Any man who can look handsome in a dirty baseball suit is an Adonis. There is something about the baggy pants, and the Micawber-shaped collar, and the skull-fitting cap, and the foot or so of tan, or blue, or pink undershirt sleeve sticking out at the arms, that just naturally kills a man's best points.”

Men Looks Feet Arms Baseball Blue Suits Dirty Pants Handsome Caps Fitting Sleeves Skulls Collars Sticking Out Baggy Pants Micawber

Author:Edna Ferber

“You don't let a guy put his hand on your chest, and put his foot on the ball and look into your eyes and tell you a bedtime story. No. sorry. He controlled the ball on his chest, step on it, look, see if someone was in the stands, take a coffee, turn, call his family, no one was answering, left a message, and then thought "Oh, I might cross the ball." He crossed it and they scored.”

Ifs Looks Stories Hands Might Eye Guy Turns Left Steps Feet Messages Crosses Balls Sorry Coffee Controlled Chests Bedtime Bedtime Stories

Author:Thierry Henry

“And in the morning when the sun rise. Look in the water, see the blue sky. As if heaven has been laid there at our feet.”

Ifs Looks Has Beens Heaven Water Morning Sun Feet Sky Blue Blue Sky Sun Rise

Author:Conor Oberst

“Most of us hide behind egocentric biases that generate the illusion that we are special. These self-serving protective shields allow us to believe that each of us is above average on any test of self-integrity. Too often we look to the stars through the thick lens of personal invulnerability when we should also look down to the slippery slope beneath our feet.”

“How can you need so many rods and reels to catch a fish? , she asked, her lips pulled into that weaned on a gherkin look, as she watched me prepare for a fishing trip. Probably for much the same reason that you seem to need 30 pairs of shoes for one pair of feet, I nearly said, but decided to live for another day.”

Needs Looks Said Reason Seems Sea Feet Rivers Decided Shoes Lips Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Pairs Another Day Pair Of Shoes

Author:Tony Bishop

“I was adored [as a kid]. I was always in the air, hurled up and kissed and thrown in the air again. Until I was six, my feet didn't touch the ground. "Look at those eyes! That nose! Those lips! That tooth! Get that child away from me, quick! I'll eat him!" Giving that up was very difficult later on in life.”

Giving Looks Children Eye Kids Difficult Air Feet Six Lips Teeth Noses Thrown

Author:Mel Brooks

“I was always the class clown and got kicked out of class at least once a day for just being a goofball. Not suspended or anything, just sit outside and look at the tree on the bench. I got benched a lot. You keep one foot on the bench and try to get as far away as possible.”

Trying Looks Class Tree Feet Far Away Just Being Clown Benches Suspended

Author:Damon Wayans, Jr.

“Why do women care about how big their feet are? I never saw a guy at the beach going, 'Wow, look at that woman, she is really... oh, darn! The feet are too big.'”

Looks Bigs Care Guy Saws Feet Beach Wow

Author:Richard Jeni

“If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble thee; if thou be wise, view the peacock's feathers with his feet, and weigh thy best parts with thy imperfections.”

Ifs Looks May Littles Enough Views Wise Feet Proud Humble Thee Imperfection Feathers Thyself Being Wise Peacock Self-examination

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“What change has made the pastures sweet And reached the daisies at my feet, And cloud that wears a golden hem? This lovely world, the hills, the sward-- They all look fresh, as if our Lord But yesterday had finished them.”

Ifs World Looks Made Past Lord Feet Sweet Spring Clouds Finished Yesterday Lovely Golden Hills Our Lord Daisies Pastures Hem

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.”

Men Looks Persons Eye Feet He Man Optimism Wit Pessimism Optimist Pessimist

Book:The limit

Source: The limit

“The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and ... on the whole they tend to be reactionary.”

Want Looks Whole Rooms Class Feet Particular Lows Males Very Good Manners Good Man Shells Shocked Beam Scottish Reactionaries Good Manners Banging Upper Class Male Chauvinist

Author:Jilly Cooper

“[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or 100 feet or 120 feet. This led me to formulate Wilson's 22nd Law: 'Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.'”

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Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“You can tell the real Christians by their acts. They are the ones serving, the ones loving, the ones sharing whatever they have. They are withholding judgment, offering compassion, being that light they want to see in the world. They are the hands and the feet of God on earth, vessels of holiness, chalices of generosity. The next time someone calls himself a Christian, look for these qualities for the living proof.”

“If Justin Beiber was 7 feet tall, he'd look like [Meyers Leonard] that.”

Ifs Looks Feet Tall Justin

Author:Marv Albert

“My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.”

Looks Long Hands Feet Arms Legs Necks Ducks Really Long Torso

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down. Think of it, boy. We find ourselves only by looking what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Looks Boys Feet Sky Relation Look Up Touched Feet On The Ground

Book:Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)

Source: Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)

“Our steps invent the path as we proceed; behind us they leave no trace, only the void. So we shall always look ahead and trust our feet. They will take us as far as our minds will go... -- Tahar ben Jelloun”

Mind Looks Behinds Steps Path Feet Void

Book:The sand child

Source: The sand child

“Apparently on the screen I look tall, ageless, and damned close to omniscient-delivering jeopardy-laden warnings through gritted teeth. But when people see me on the street, they say 'by God, this kid is 5 foot 5, he's got a broken nose, and looks about as foreboding as a bank teller on a lunch break.'”

People Looks Kids Break Feet Streets Broken Screens Teeth Noses Tall Lunch Warning Delivering Jeopardy Omniscient Foreboding Ageless Lunch Break

Author:Rod Serling

“It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.”

Looks Stills Feet Comfortable Cute Fashionable Really Cute

Author:Laura Marano

“Yes, take a little time to play And look at life the other way. God rested when the world was made: Rest now, old friend; be not afraid. But think not that your work is over, That you are now a foot-free rover, A rambler upon idle ways, Whittling away the golden days. For in the road climb to the goal There's no long furlough for a soul. There's no long pause: on every height Another summit swims in sight. The long road rises, scene by scene, With little restings in between.”

Thinking World Way Looks Littles Long Made Soul Play Goal Feet Scene Sight Golden Height Climbs Swim Not Afraid Idle Pauses Summit Old Friends Little Time Long Road Whittling Golden Days

Author:Edwin Markham

“You don't look down at your feet. A lot of comedians want to look down at their feet, but you break contact with the audience.”

Want Looks Break Audience Feet Contact Comedian

Author:Louis C. K.

“When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, 'Here, I guess, since this is where I am.'”

Want Looks Lasts Asks Our Lives Feet

Book:An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

Source: An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

“What's the difference between a hockey mom and a mass turkey-murdering machine? Looks like about 15 feet.”

Looks Differences Feet Mom Mass Machines Hockey Turkeys Hockey Mom

Author:Keith Olbermann

“The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage, uncontrollable emotion, and a desperate search for identity. Out of adolescence, however, comes maturity in which physical growth with all its attendant difficulties comes to an end, but in which growth continues in knowledge, in spirit, in community, and in love; it is to this that we look forward as a human race. This goal, once seen with our eyes, will draw our faltering feet toward it.”

“So when I open the door on Halloween, I am confronted by three or four imaginary heroes, such as G.I. Joe, Conan the Barbarian and Oliver North, who would look very terrifying except that they are three feet tall and facing in random directions. They stand there silently for several seconds before an adult voice hisses from the darkness behind them: "Say 'Trick or treat!”

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Book:The World According to Dave Barry

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“Instead of it being the mark of a real man that you can shoot somebody at 50 feet and kill them with a gun, the mark of a real man is that you would never do anything like that. . . . The gun is a great equalizer because it makes wimps as dangerous as people who really have skill and bravery and so I'd like to have this notion that anyone using a gun is a wuss. They aren't anybody to be looked up to. They're somebody to look down at because they couldn't defend themselves or couldn't protect others without using a gun.”

People Men Looks Real Feet Dangerous Protect Skills Gun Mark Bravery Notion Real Men Equalizer Wimps

Author:David Hemenway

“I'm always taking into consideration how the shoe will look on the foot, its relation to the ankle and the leg - that's very important. I often see shoes that seem interesting or nice until a woman puts them on. then a lot of shoes look very clunky, and nobody likes to see that.”

Looks Important Seems Interesting Nice Feet Relation Shoes Legs Likes Consideration Ankles

Author:Christian Louboutin

“I never look at failing as an option anyhow. I believe thinking you could fail is already shooting yourself in the foot and setting yourself up for failure.”

Thinking Believe Looks I Believe Failing Feet Setting Settings Shooting

Author:Ashley Purdy

“I saw a commercial for an above-ground pool, it was 30 seconds long. Because that's the maximum amount of time you can picture yourself having fun in an above-ground pool. If it was 31 seconds, the actor would say "The water is only up to here? What do I do now? Throw the ball back to Jimmy? Or put some goggles on and look at his feet?"”

Ifs Looks Long Humor Funny Actors Fun Water Saws Feet Amount Balls Having Fun Seconds Pool Maximum Jimmy Goggles

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”

“When someone walks in and you say "a six-foot-tall man," you miss the opportunity to describe what a six-foot-tall man would look like to your narrator, because how the narrator describes a six-foot-tall man says more about the narrator than about the man.”

Men Looks Opportunity Walks Feet Missing He Man Six Tall Narrators

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I think just wear whatever makes you feel comfortable. Your feet could get sweaty without socks, if that's what you mean. I personally like to keep socks on even through the summer because it looks cute.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Looks Mean Feet Comfortable Summer Cute Sock

Author:Eliza Doolittle

“Carl Furillo was pure ballplayer. In his prime he stood six feet tall and weighed 190 pounds and there was a fluidity to his frame you seldom see, among such sinews. His black hair was thick, and tightly curled. His face was strong and smooth. He had the look of a young indomitable centurion ... I cannot imagine Carl Furillo in his prime as anything other than a ballplayer. Right field in Brooklyn was his destiny.”

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Author:Roger Kahn

“Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society... We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.”

“The earth almost looks like it's packed down and dense from so many feet treading over it.”

Looks Earth Feet Down And Over It Dense Treading

Author:Andrew Bird

“An engineer can look at the data, but he needs a translator from the cockpit - the driver - to understand it completely. For example, only the driver can tell you why he abruptly takes his foot off the gas pedal at a certain point. The data doesn't necessarily tell the engineer whether the driver made a mistake at that point or the car was acting up. The information the driver provides often helps determine the direction of development.”

Needs Looks Made Helping Certain Acting Mistake Feet Car Information Example Development Determine Data Gas Drivers Engineers Made A Mistake Translators Pedals Cockpit

Author:Michael Schumacher