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I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens. -- Taylor Swift
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person. -- Alexander Pope
A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat. -- David D. Burns
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. -- Samuel Johnson
I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late. -- Mitch Hedberg
I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass. -- Oscar Nunez
Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it. -- John Harvey Kellogg
A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands. -- Tomas Transtromer
Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person. -- Patti Smith
The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art. -- Montgomery Clift
I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them. -- John Grisham
Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it. -- Ivy Compton-Burnett
Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available. -- Theodor Adorno
Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass. -- John Coltrane
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight -- Moses Mendelssohn
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight. -- Moses Mendelssohn
Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained -- Samuel Johnson
Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear. -- Lily Cole
Don't waste even a minute magnifying your perceived inadequacies. You can't do it all. Why berate yourself for not achieving the impossible? -- Karen Finerman
We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord. -- Fred Hammond
Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens. -- Gore Verbinski
My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way. -- Marquis de Sade
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope. -- Leigh Hunt
With the Spirit and magnifying your call, you can do miracles for the Lord in the mission field. Without the Spirit, you will never succeed, regardless of your talent and ability. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Just because we say networks are important doesn't mean that networks explain everything. We're just adding additional information. Networks don't work like a match - they work like a magnifying glass. -- Nicholas A. Christakis
One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head -- Hermann Broch
I find mirrors detestable; I dislike seeing myself. Of course, there's a mirror in the bathroom, but it's a magnifying one for shaving. Photographs are fine, but I don't like mirrors because they take you by surprise. -- Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying. -- Anais Nin
I'm getting to the end of my magnifying glasses now. One eye's gone completely. The other is gradually dimming. Dimming - that sounds very dramatic, doesn't it? I'm so lucky. I can still make a living - and the same kind of living. -- Sue Townsend
The most important thing is to cleanse and moisturise your face twice a day. Use eye drops. If your eyes are white, you look healthy; you look fresh. Every man should have a magnifying mirror. If you look good magnified, you are set to go. -- Tom Ford
This is how I feel about horror films: there's enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them. -- Josh Hamilton
The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror... Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy. -- Cory Doctorow
Failure is life's magnifying glass. -- Simon May
The eyes of childhood are magnifying lenses. -- Edward Teller
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass. -- Theodor Adorno
Men and Women of Christ magnify their callings without magnifying themselves. -- Neal A. Maxwell
I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive. -- Robert Henri
I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass. -- Charles Lindbergh
Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses. -- George Eliot
Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses. -- Thomas Browne
Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face. -- David Sedaris
Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value. -- Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy. -- Cory Doctorow
Instead of getting an iPad, I now use my iPhone with a giant magnifying glass attached to my face. -- Tony Hsieh
Temptation is God's magnifying glass; it shows us how much work he has left to do in our lives. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions. -- John Piper
The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger. -- Lord Chesterfield
Lies are ants, the truth is the sun, and questions are a magnifying glass waiting to be picked up by the curious. -- Craig Stone
Maybe I'm an open book, or maybe love is like a magnifying glass straight into the souls of those who own your heart. -- Mia Sheridan
When I was little, I would burn ants with a magnifying glass. But now that I'm older, I'm more of a cat guy. -- Anthony Jeselnik
It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames. -- Harry Hill
And young women, please understand that if you dress immodestly, you are magnifying this problem by becoming pornography to some of the men who see you. -- Dallin H. Oaks
[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter. -- Ha-Joon Chang
A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles, lighting and magnifying the page. -- Robert Aris Willmott
Never, ever lose sight of the power of one individual American. They can have an unbelievable magnifying affect just by the very fact they make up their mind to do so! -- H. L. Richardson
The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that they do, just the smallest movement, is very detectible. -- Olivia Thirlby
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In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease. -- Jack Kevorkian
All corporatism "? even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea "? encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them. -- Margaret Thatcher

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