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The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever. -- Stephen King
Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word: REDRUM -- Stephen King
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.] -- Ovid
Dr. Lecter would have more sustenance on the spacecraft from Alien because there are more people to eat. I think he'd get hungry after a while in the Overlook - I can't imagine him eating canned food. -- Bryan Fuller
Now there she goes again, the dopest Ethiopian, And now the world around me be gets movin in slow motion Whenever she happens to walk by, why does the apple of my eye Overlook and disregard my feelings no matter how much I try? -- Fatlip
See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little. -- Pope John XXIII
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? -- Anais Nin
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. -- William James
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. -- Edmund Burke
When you love somebody, or something, it's amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws. -- Caroline Knapp
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. -- Sigmund Freud
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others. -- Edith Wharton
Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities. -- Harvey Mackay
Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together. -- Oscar Arias
Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal. -- Taylor Swift
Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference. -- Hugh Prather
Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns. -- Fred Thompson
A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations. -- Emily Greene Balch
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them. -- Horace Mann
With all of the holiday cheer in the air, it's easy to overlook the ingredients in the foods. Ingredients such as salt, sugar, and fat - all of which leads to diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, strokes, heart disease, and cancer. -- Lee Haney
Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person. -- Dean Smith
I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record. I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks. -- Aimee Mullins
What if the invasion forces will not leave our lands? What if the U.S. forces and others stay in our beloved lands? What if their companies and embassy headquarters will continue to exist with the American flags hoisted on them? Will you be silent? Will you overlook this? -- Muqtada al Sadr
Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family. -- Dennis Prager
When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of national and ethnic tragedy. But, as a result, there is a tendency to overlook the way the war changed even the survivors' lives in ways impossible to predict. -- Antony Beevor
I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley. -- Gilbert Gottfried
As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society. -- Lauryn Hill
In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies. -- Aristotle
The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence. -- Gary Zukav
People idealise their animals, and at the same time they patronisingly overlook a dog's natural life - biting fleas, burying bones, rolling in garbage, barking up an empty tree all night... But what do they do themselves? Bury stuff that will rot in secret and then dig it up and bury it again and rant and rave under empty trees! -- Tove Jansson
Wisdom is learning what to overlook. -- William James
Never overlook the power of simplicity. -- Robin Sharma
What I cannot love, I overlook. -- Anais Nin
You can never overlook a guy. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
We usually don't look. We overlook. -- Alan Watts
It is gracious to overlook and offence. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
You fail to overlook the crucial point. -- Samuel Goldwyn
Let us not overlook so great a gain. -- Saint John Chrysostom
Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities. -- Winston Churchill
Grace does not overlook sin, it empowers righteousness! -- Bill Johnson
Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things? -- George Carlin
Iraq war has made us overlook domestic agenda. -- Mike Huckabee
One can overlook stupidity, until it evolves into malice. -- Lizabeth Scott
Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook. -- Stephen King
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook. -- William James
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. -- William James
Will still produce considerable overlook and shadowing on adjoining streets. -- Greg Nickels
Forgiveness does not overlook the deed. It rises above it. -- Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
Never overlook wallflower at dance; may be dandelion in grass. -- Confucius
Opportunities will not overlook you because you are wearing overalls. -- Henry Ford
Don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them. -- Alan Watts
It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook. -- Jo Walton
We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass. -- Samuel Johnson
Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't. -- Lionel Shriver
Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us. -- Emma Goldman
Grace does not lead us to overlook obedience. Grace compels and empowers us for obedience. -- Kevin DeYoung
LA has its own vibe. It has a charm that a lot of people overlook sometimes. -- Billy Bob Thornton
When you love somebody, or something, its amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws. -- Caroline Knapp
There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither. -- Alan Cohen
It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote. -- Samuel Johnson
Those things that are the most obvious are the very things we've most likely to overlook. -- Pittacus Lore
The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression. -- Jacques Barzun
The decision to overlook the seeming inequities of life instead of reacting to them is a choice. -- David Hawkins
I can overlook the lie; what's harder to ignore is the grotesque way it's marred your character. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Love in NOT blind. It teaches you to be blind and overlook your partner's mistakes and shortcomings. -- Reetwika Banerjee
Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find. -- Ann Patchett
People seem to overlook an old man losing his mind if he occasionally made light of it. -- Marissa Meyer
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense. -- Solomon
Most people doubt online meetings can work but they somehow overlook that most in-person meetings don't work either. -- Scott Berkun
A lot of the time I tend to overlook the music because I'm listening to how it's produced. -- Adam Beyer
As long as people overlook matters, then inferiors can, without any fear, lead an easy and peaceful life. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good. -- John Corey Whaley
What both the left and the right overlook is our Founders' wisdom about the limits and dangers of government. -- Ed Crane
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. -- H. G. Wells
The more you strive and search for happiness, the more you overlook the possibility that it is here already. -- Robert Holden
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself -- Samuel Johnson
I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook. -- Gail Carson Levine
Many overlook the fact that Jesus was homeless. He did not only teach the poor; He lived among them. -- Dillon Burroughs
Love can be a terrible curse, Eragon. It can make you overlook even the largest flaws in a person's behavior. -- Christopher Paolini
We as humans tend to overlook lesser beings and things, but we should instead come to love and respect them. -- Sandranil Biswas
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent. -- Abraham Flexner
But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something. -- Samuel Beckett
Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook. -- Ludwig von Mises
When you overlook the small blessings in your life, chances are that no amount of blessings would ever make you happy. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others. -- Okakura Kakuzo
It's possible to overlook character flaws of in-laws for the simple reason that you feel neither responsible for them nor genetically implicated. -- Richard Russo
We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own. -- Naomi Shihab Nye
I think it's important never to look a gift horse in the mouth, never to overlook your talents [and] what you're good at. -- Jim Carrey
The movement of Soul beyond the human senses is such a natural process that one is likely to overlook it in its simplicity. -- Harold Klemp
My home office and workshop are on an overlook on the only deep river gorge on the entire length of the Mississippi River. -- William Gurstelle
Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation. -- lecrae
A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable. -- Billy Graham
Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism. -- Jurgen Habermas
Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together. -- Oscar Arias
MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. -- Ambrose Bierce
She had picked up life where she had left off... and hoped that would be enough to get the universe to politely overlook her. -- Thomm Quackenbush
It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight... -- Cormac McCarthy
Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism -- Jurgen Habermas
American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected. -- Thomas Sowell
I remember most clearly when a teenage Christopher spat in my face. He said, "I hate you". It's pretty hard to overlook that. I couldn't. -- Joan Crawford
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect. -- Samuel Johnson
The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise. -- Andreï Makine
The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise. -- Andreï Makine
You know the incredible thing about hearts is their unbelievable capacity for forgiveness. You'd be amazed what people will overlook when they love someone. (Acheron) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
When discussing overall impacts on employment, it is important not to overlook the new technologies and industries that can be driven by pollution control standards. -- Gina McCarthy
I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn. -- Simon Van Booy
The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat. -- Sun Tzu
Maidana is a young, strong and tough competitor. He's a guy that I can't overlook. You can never take any fighter for granted because anything can happen. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light. -- Dorothy Gilman
Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee. -- James Hervey
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them. -- Van Wyck Brooks
Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the day. -- Ann Landers
I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters. -- Jan de Bont
We are often so distracted by the internal war between what we want to do and what we have to do that we overlook what we need to do. -- Tonya Hurley
The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and the falsity of their beliefs. -- Pierre-Paul Grasse

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