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Quotes About Watch

The Devil had granted my wish to watch him sleep, but granted it in his usual cruel fashion, making a pain of a pleasure. Yet pleasure there was. I still desired to watch over him, be his dragon against Botts.
~ Maria McCann
I like to think the "watch" part of the instruction [to watch and pray] might sound something like the way a child would call out, "Hey! Watch this!" ... You don't want to miss this ... and closer attentiveness to the ... invitations the Spirit offers... We are accompanied and witnessed and even when we fall asleep, watched.
~ Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
I can't believe it! A real gourmet kitchen, and I get to watch!
~ Unknown
I am a sundial, and I make a botch Of what is done much better by a watch.
~ Hilaire Belloc
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.
~ JAMES BEARD
No, that watch doubles as a high-power flame-thrower and a bidet.
~ Unknown
My kind of loyalty was to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.
~ Mark Twain
Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.
~ Mark Twain
I cannot give it to you, so try to watch me.
~ Eugene Ormandy
That's a weird way to torture yourself. Just watch a movie, over and over, that you hate. That's really funny - that's probably exactly what hell is like.
~ Rob Huebel
The motion picture Deadpool was my favorite funny movie of [2016]. Something that I could just watch over and over again, because it's just so... he says so many things.
~ Doug Benson
The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.
~ Edward Koch
Before a clock was in the tower, Or e'er a watch was worn; I knew of night the passing hour, And prophesied the morn; To man of every age and clime, The oldest chronicler of time.
~ John Banister Tabb
Children from the age of five to ten should watch more television. Television depicts adults as rotten SOB's, given to fistfights, gunplay, and other mayhem. Kids who believe this about grownups aren't likely to argue about bedtime.
~ Unknown
My father was from Aberdeen, and a more generous man you couldn't wish to meet. I have a gold watch that belonged to him. He sold it to me on his deathbed. I wrote him a cheque for it, post dated of course.
~ Chic Murray
I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.
~ Markus Zusak
if papa would only quit looking at me
~ Martha Finley
Someone needs to be their guardian on the that trail. I'm taking that job.
~ Mary Connealy
The Stones, I love the Stones. I watch them whenever I can. Fred, Barney.
~ Steven Wright
I long for the day my Angel rests her head so delicately on her pillow. To watch my Angel sleep is to watch heaven in all it's splendor!
~ Unknown
Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.
~ Marya Mannes
Dear Fatherland, no danger thine:Firm stands thy watch along the Rhine.
~ Unknown
The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
Fame is like a castle. Castles are beautiful to dream and wonderful to watch, but too encircled to live in!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan