#stare

At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are. ↗

— Czeslaw Milosz

#bare #bare feet #because #called #clouds

The quest for seizing that amygdala moment, those crushing seconds of unbearable, incapacitating shock, seizing these moments and not letting them go, dragging them out for as long as is operationally necessary, that, said Sid, is the aim of the Bucha effect. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#men

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

#door #late #long #open #see

A poor life this if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare. ↗

— W. H. Davies

#full #life #poor #stand #stare

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#any #anything #bad #bad men #conventional

No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere. ↗

— Anna Held

#dreadfully #everywhere #hard #like #live

It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. ↗

— Walker Evans

#eavesdrop #educate #eyes #here #knowing

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. ↗

— Walker Evans

#eavesdrop #here #knowing #listen #long

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. ↗

— William Gibson

#blue eyes #certainty #directly #even #exceedingly

The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable. ↗

— Terri Clark

#chances #comfortable #courage #doing #face