Quotes about watch
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“The tiniest gesture -- a smile, a gentle look, a simple pat on the arm, a soft word -- can change a person's life. Before this very day is out, you are going to have a chance to live in that possibility. Look. Watch. See what this day brings you. And be ready.”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer

Life, Smile, Change, Chance

“Your mindset determines your destiny, so choose positivity and watch your life transform.”

Justin Guerra

Source: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11654652-your-mindset-determines-your-destiny-so-choose-positivity-and-watch

Life

“Mr. Solomon was right the worst kind of torture is watching someone you love get hurt.”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Love, Hurt

“What did they think I was going to do, steal a body? If I wanted to, I could empty the damn place and get every corpse to play follow the leader. Perhaps that was why I needed watching. Perhaps." --Anita Blake”

Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist

Thinking

“The taipan is the one to watch out for. It is the most poisonous snake on Earth, with a lunge so swift and a venom so potent that your last mortal utterance is likely to be: "I say, is that a sn--”

Bill Bryson (1951) American author

“What a beautiful name. I love to watch how it falls off the lips of those who love Him. I shudder as it falls off the lips of those who don't. Jesus.”

Beth Moore (1957) American evangelist

Love, Beauty

“She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.”

Susan Wiggs (1958) American writer

Source: The Charm School

World

“Don't follow leaders
Watch the parkin' meters”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Subterranean Homesick Blues

“Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?”

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist

Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

People, Time

“The guy stroked his goatee. "What do you call twenty guys watching the world series?"
"The New York Yankees," Butch replied.”

Jessica Bird book Dark Lover

Source: Dark Lover

World, Guy

“Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption
and watch the world play its part
relative to to its fulfillment.”

Neville Goddard (1905–1972) American author and lecturer

World, Reality, Parting

“Avoiding me, Quen downed a swallow of wine. "Trent is a fine young man," he said, watching the remaining wine swirl.

"Yes… " I drawled, cautiously. "If you can call a drug lord and outlawed-medicine manufacturer a fine young man.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Ever After

Wine

“That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

Fools, Reading

“For a long time she flew, only when she thought no one else was watching.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Time

“Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet.”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

People

“I'll be watching.
-A”

Sara Shepard Pretty Little Liars

Source: Pretty Little Liars

“My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.”

Orson Scott Card book Heartfire

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 1.

Feeling

“I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile.”

Philip K. Dick book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Life, Smile

““This short watch that is about to come, or rather these two short watches--why are they called dog watches? Where, heu, heu, is the canine connection?'
Why,' said Stephen, 'it is because they are curtailed of course.””

Patrick O'Brian book Post Captain

Source: Post Captain (1972)

Dogs

“Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Life, Wisdom, God, Angels

“I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Love, World, Making love, Joy

“I nodded, pretending I was relaxed. I watched the sunlight sparkling on the water and practiced mind-body integration for a few seconds by quietly hyperventilating.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: It Chooses You

Water

“A: The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul.
Q: It always happens?
A: If we're lucky. And if we let ourselves be blind.
Q: Instead of watching out?
A: Instead of always watching out.”

Mary Zimmerman Metamorphoses

Source: Metamorphoses

Love, Soul

“This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?"

"I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?"

"Yes," she said.

"That's influenza," said Miro. "Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours.”

Orson Scott Card book Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

Love, Happiness, Stupidity, Feeling

“Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.”

Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet

Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

Thinking

“Come on, it's almost midnight. Let's go watch them cut the cake.”

Scott Westerfeld book Extras

Source: Extras

“some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

People, Problem, Forgetting

“It was a train wreck happening right in front of me and I couldn't do anything about it, except that not only was I watching, I was also the train.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

Training

“We owe a lot to Thomas Edison-if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.”

Milton Berle (1908–2002) American comedian and actor

“Sometimes I would open my eyes when we were kissing, I would watch him and I could see it. I could actually see LOVE - not words, not an emotion, not an abstract concept or a subjective state of mind, but a living, breathing thing.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Love, Kiss

“And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. But there's a joy and an abundance of everything, like information and laughter and summer weather and so many stories.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Life, Laughter, Joy, Summer

“Now it was coming to an end, and it was like he was watching the last flicker of light wink out in the darkness of an endless tunnel.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Source: The Best of Me

Light

“Fact: upon locking yourself our of your apartment you will immediately need to use the bathroom. Fact: and then you will stand in place and watch your door. You will just stare. As though rebuffed by it. As though it has done this to you.”

Augusten Burroughs Possible Side Effects

Source: Possible Side Effects

“I watched her face switch among the radio stations of memory”

Diane Ackerman book The Zookeeper's Wife

Source: The Zookeeper's Wife

Memory

“I like the second better, but the first fits with the vampire watching what she can’t have.” I blinked. “What he can’t have,” I amended, flushing.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

“Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself.”

Haruki Murakami book Pinball, 1973

Source: Pinball, 1973

Feeling

“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

Love, Suffering

“Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn.”

John Wesley (1703–1791) Christian theologian

As quoted in The Peaceful Path of Prosperity : Practical and Spiritual Approaches to Enrich Your Life with Your Inner Wealth (2001) by Danny Babineaux; not found in any record of Wesley before 2001.
Misattributed
Variant: I set myself on fire and people come to watch me burn.

People, Light, Passion