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Gaze Upward, Look Inward, Reach Outward, Press Forward. -- Thomas S. Monson
Gaze steadfastly at things which, though far away, are yet present to the mind. -- Parmenides
Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think. -- Hildegard of Bingen
Gaze not on swans, in whose soft breast, A full-hatched beauty seems to nest Nor snow, which falling from the sky Hovers in its virginity. -- Henry Noel Brailsford
Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.... -- William Butler Yeats
The candle glimmers but an hour. The night Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know The tragedy of human love and need? Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face! -- George Sterling
Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that. -- Hermann Hesse
Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of earth's greenings. Now, think. What delight God gives to humankind with all these things . All nature is at the disposal of humankind. We are to work with it. For without we cannot survive. -- Hildegard of Bingen
In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing. -- Mason Cooley
There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze. -- Rachel Cusk
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles. -- Lucretius
There must be something wrong with the mirrors in our house because every single one I gaze into makes me appear somewhat overweight. -- Rick Wakeman
I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view. -- Julian Lennon
I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them. -- Cara Delevingne
You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it. -- Robert E. Kahn
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible. -- Orison Swett Marden
Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides. -- Jacques Derrida
Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration. -- Samuel Lover
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. -- Christina Rossetti
I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell. -- Nellie Bly
As we grow, we lift our gaze higher and higher, and then sometimes we are brought to our knees, but all is not lost; what we find on the ground can be very valuable and precisely what we need. -- Michael Leunig
We young Filipinos are trying to make over a nation and must not halt in our march, but from time to time turn our gaze upon our elders. We shall wish to read in their countenances approval of our actions. -- Jose Rizal
Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most. -- Ben Shapiro
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant. -- Lucretius
My privacy concerns have to do with the world, other people, technology intruding upon us - what Talmudic scholars once called 'the unwanted gaze.' Here I see major issues and concerns as society evolves, and I've written often on the subject. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
When you look on the bright side, you're acknowledging that there is a dark side at which you are choosing not to gaze. If you think that the darkest hour is before the dawn, you accept that you are moving from darkness to light. -- Srikumar Rao
Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility. -- Bret Easton Ellis
While the male eye zooms in on a particular element to the exclusion of all else, a woman's gaze flickers from one tedious task to the next, to the point where we can't distinguish between the importance of mopping the kitchen floor and achieving world peace. -- Mariella Frostrup
Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space. -- Buzz Aldrin
This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance. -- Pope Francis
A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city. -- Herb Caen
your gazeacrossmy cheeksturned theminto strawberry fields. -- Sanober Khan
Would that be dangerous, to not look while being looked at? -- Helen Oyeyemi
and the afterglow...of your gaze...is the onlysweater that I need. -- Sanober Khan
She gazed at him alluringly and grinned. No further words were necessary. -- Jason Medina
I wanted every word to last for hours, every gaze to last for days. -- David Levithan
When eyes have died in its gaze, know the heart had died in its blaze. -- Anthony Liccione
Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human? -- Neil Gaiman
And then there was the way you cast your gaze, A coldness so chilling that it could cause a fire. -- Sreesha Divakaran
Everytime he looked at her she felt brighter inside, and she yearned to keep his attention, to hold his gaze. -- Jessica Khoury
I got lost In your ocean-green eyesAnd I drownedIn the sweetest desireOf your warm gazeWave after waveWith no chanceTo survive. -- Veronika Jensen
For dinner I had seared sneer with a glaze of distant gaze, and a side of mashed pride covered in grace. -- Jarod Kintz
My love grows long, and my smile is wide. My gaze is deep, and my penchant for making up words is apopleggio. -- Jarod Kintz
He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking. -- Leo Tolstoy
These were people who hunted for a way to erase the haunted, malnourished gaze from their souls and replace it with their faith in freedom and safety. -- J.D. Stroube
The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate like an electrocuted criminal. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
...her [Albertine's] intense and velvety gaze fastened itself, glued itself to the passer-by, so adhesive, so corrosive, that you felt that, in withdrawing, it must tear away the skin. -- Marcel Proust
A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question. -- Neil Gaiman
now the question we must ask is...what kind of _practices_ [theology] motivates, what kind of _gaze_ onto others, the guest, the new arrivant, it offers us to carry with us; _not_ who my neighbors are _but_ to whom I am being a neighbor. -- Namsoon Kang
At issue for Peladan is the potency of the visual image: art's ability to construct images for viewing that can mobilize, concentrate and redirect instinctive responses. He brings out into the open the recognition underlying all decadent art; that is, the political function of the fascinated gaze. -- Jennifer Birkett
If he had even blinked, she would have been gone; but he did not blink, and he held her, as he had learned to hold griffins and chimeras motionless with his steady gaze. Her bare feet wounded him deeper than any tusk or riving talon ever had, but he was a true hero. -- Peter S. Beagle
As I turned to leave, I looked down. Beside my foot, a sprout of greenery was clawing its way through the pristine nothingness to begin anew. It was later that I realized my haven had sent me a message, and it had shown me that nothing is ever completely lost, unless you cease searching. -- J.D. Stroube
Temeroso arranco esparadrapos, gaze e passos." -- Filipe Russo
Look ahead and gaze on the sun! -- Lailah Gifty Akita
A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind. -- William Shakespeare
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul. -- Barry Lopez
The gaze that sees is the gaze that dominates. -- Michel Foucault
Turn thy gaze inward, wherein resides the Supreme Self. -- Swami Vivekananda
The truly good gaze upon everything with love and understanding. -- Dalai Lama
If you raise your gaze, you don't see the boundaries anymore. -- Thomas Muller
Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more. -- Susan Sontag
Hawke's gaze was so innocent, Andrew knew it was pure bullshit -- Nalini Singh
She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze. -- Paul Bowles
Every day we need our gaze redirected from ourselves to God. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; -- William Butler Yeats
Obuze, mitraliere, aburi de gaze, flotile de tancuri - strivire, devorare, moarte. -- Erich Maria Remarque
Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning. -- Kim Edwards
The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above. -- Heinrich Heine
The man who hunts a deer does not gaze at the mountains. -- Takeda Nobushige
An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared. -- Chris Marker
the cosmopolitan gaze of planetary love and hospitality _is_ what constitutes being _religious_. -- Namsoon Kang
Hope is a gaze on a higher power to meet our every need. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Despite the gentlemanly kiss, a ferocity burned behind his gaze promising something primal. -- Katherine McIntyre
Hopeful visions touch possibilities that only exist in the gaze of the faithful. -- Bryant McGill
Each violet peeps from its dwelling to gaze at the bright stars above. -- Heinrich Heine
Lower your gaze from the world and turn your heart away from it... -- Umar
No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars. -- Quintus Ennius
The Woman, the Eternal Feminine envelops with her gaze of light the entire planet. -- Samael Aun Weor
The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires. -- Jean-Luc Godard
Suggestions?" I asked [...] Marc never took his gaze from the cage. "Get the hose. -- Rachel Vincent
Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music. -- William Shakespeare
Thrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces. -- William Shakespeare
I still see storytelling for men by men that is always reinforcing the male gaze. -- Jill Soloway
Life works better when we know how to glance at things but gaze at God. -- Selwyn Hughes
Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink. --
Choose your thoughts, carve them in your mind and fix your gaze on them always. -- Agu Jaachynma N.E.
But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When you gaze into souls, it's something you should update periodically, because souls can change. -- Richard Perle
Then he smiles as if he'd be happy to lie there and gaze at me forever. -- Suzanne Collins
Men's eyes were made to look, let them gaze, I will budge for no man's pleasure. -- William Shakespeare
Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it. -- Eberhard Arnold
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction. -- Simone Weil
You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book. -- Aneurin Bevan
Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you. -- Rumi
The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem. -- Allen Tate
When young people grow up....they shine so much that old people want to avert their gaze. -- Tite Kubo
In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace. -- George Gascoigne
placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still. -- David Levithan
Faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If at all God's gaze falls upon us all it's with a mischievous grin, look at him. -- Dave Matthews
Come find me," Leo put in, his gaze full of understanding. "Whenever you want. I'll be here. -- Aimee Friedman
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. -- Diane Ackerman
The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct -- Joyce Carol Oates
Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God? -- Ann Voskamp
As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine. -- Robert Breault
We as women need to change our gaze from HOW WE ARE 'SEEN' to HOW WE ARE 'SEEING'. -- Tracee Ellis Ross
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It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen. -- Robert Charles Wilson

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