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There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything. -- Richard von Weizsaecker
If enough of us stop looking away and decide that climate change is a crisis worthy of Marshall Plan levels of response, then it will become one. -- Naomi Klein
There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense of security by looking away from it and then making a lightning slash in the apparent hope of catching it off its guard. -- P. G. Wodehouse
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The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else. -- Philip Pullman
God is to be found not by stepping aside from the flow of daily life into religious moments and environments, or by looking away from creation to a spiritual realm beyond, but rather by entering attentively the depths of the present moment. There we will find God -- John Philip Newell
For the rest of my life I'll be thinking about that hamburger. I'll be sitting there at the counter, holding it in my hands with tears streaming down my cheeks. The waitress will be looking away because she doesn't like to see kids crying when they are eating hamburgers... -- Richard Brautigan
Look, natural gas, just like oil, is going to eventually go away. It's not renewable. -- Ed Rendell
I don't want my wrinkles taken away - I don't want to look like everyone else. -- Jane Fonda
Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away. -- Ricky Gervais
Once you get away from where you're from, you look at it in a different way. -- Deana Carter
When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again. -- Taylor Hackford
I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors. -- Bruce Forsyth
Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things. -- John Connolly
When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder. -- Julie Newmar
Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. -- Richard Roeper
It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away. -- Brigitte Bardot
Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people. -- Ralph Nader
I'm terribly bad at lying in real life. I flush, look away, do the scratching of the nose, or whatever. -- Greg Wise
For me, acting is about getting away from myself. So to look at myself is the last thing I want. -- Helena Bonham Carter
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling. -- Robert M. Pirsig
We look for the scrappy entrepreneur: the kind of person who will get things done without looking to spend money right away. -- Jon Oringer
During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away. -- John Boehner
From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away. -- Raymond Chandler
I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain. -- John Mayer
We look at distant exploding stars called supernovae, and we've developed techniques to measure how far away they are and how fast they're moving away from us. -- Adam Riess
It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling. -- Robert M. Pirsig
He stomped away like a pint-sized Godzilla looking for Tokyo. -- Julia Spencer-Fleming
Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge. -- Veronica Roth
Some are like the Moon, good looking, but only when they're away from you. -- Nizar Qabbani
The fool is looking for happiness far away. The wise man makes it grow under his feet. -- James Oppenheim
The trick was looking past the illusion, because the exit was never as far away as it seemed. -- Lauren DeStefano
I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites. -- Eric Hernandez
A few streets away a grave-looking Saddam warns: Don't double-park, you could cause chaos! ... I'm concerned for your life. -- Osama bin Laden
Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever. -- Alexander H. Stephens
You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it. -- Adam Carolla
It is by seeing, looking and choosing to not turn away that we gain God's heart, that we grow in faith. -- Rich Nathan
How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along? -- Jodi Picoult
You amaze me and its hard for me to turn away and make it not so obvious that I'm looking at you. -- Shailee J-N
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within. -- Brad Pitt
When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away. -- Shakti Gawain
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it. -- Edith Schaeffer
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it -- Edith Schaeffer
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But, if you miss (the supposedly easy pin) by just a little bit, you're looking at the next putt from 30 feet. The ball just rolls away. -- Ben Crenshaw
I'm a tek addict myself. No matter where you are, people are looking for something to tear them away from reality, challenge their state of mind. -- Greg Evigan
She stared at her face in the mirror, feeling everything around her slipping away. The face stared back, and she wondered who was looking at her. -- Joe DeRouen
Maxim 12: A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries -- Howard Tayler
At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too. -- John Green
I've been looking at people and how they change with the times, and lately all I've been seeing are people throwing love away and losing their minds. -- Michael Martin Murphey
My dad passed away...and suddenly I found myself at the top of the tree and looking at the sky instead of at my mom and dad. -- Neil Young
Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You don't stare at it. It's too risky. Ya get a sense of it and then you look away. -- Jerry Seinfeld
I'm looking forward to being old, to be able to accept what I am and become self-sufficient. Mid-forties is a good age and it's not too far away. -- Stella Vine
In my head, my business is architecture and furniture; it's 70 percent ProuvÃ©, and Corbusier, Royer, Jeanneret - they all passed away. So it's retrospective, I'm looking back. -- Patrick Seguin
The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word. -- Terry Pratchett
It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that. -- Michelle Williams
He stares at me, and I don't look away. He isn't a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive. Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It's my choice. -- Veronica Roth

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