Quotes about Observation
Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.
— Frank Herbert
Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.
— Frank Herbert
And Jessica, noting the words and manner, caught the deeper implications in the phrase, "the body's water.
— Frank Herbert
Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life. The object can be started this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.
— Frank Herbert
How do you call among you the little mouse, the mouse that jumps?
— Frank Herbert
As we survey church history, we discover that A. W. Tozer's piercing observation is most accurate: "All great Christians have been wounded souls.
— Frank Viola
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
— Ronald Reagan
His genius was belowThe skill of ev'ry common beau;Who, tho' he cannot spell, is wiseEnough to read a lady's eyes;And will each accidental glanceInterpret for a kind advance.Swift'sMiscell.
— Samuel Johnson
He therefore that would govern his actions by the laws of virtue, must regulate his thoughts by those of reason; he must keep guilt from the recesses of his heart, and remember that the pleasures of fancy, and the emotions of desire, are more dangerous as they are more hidden, since they escape the awe of observation, and operate equally in every situation, without the concurrence of external opportunities.
— Samuel Johnson
It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said of the body of the Church belongs to each of its members since they are one in Christ.
— John Calvin
It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.
— CS Lewis
There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.
— Robert Louis Stevenson