Quotes About Onlookers

I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan. That's why it's my favorite city. You can do what you want without attracting a crowd of curious onlookers.

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents—were they the stuff of Literature? At best, they might aspire to the condition of onlookers and bystanders, part of a social backdrop against which real, true, important things could happen.

Modern states are democratic, or at least it's generally felt they really should be. yet democracy, in modern states, is conceived very differently to, say, the workings of an assembly in an ancient city, which collectively deliberated on common problems. Rather, democracy as we have come to know it is effectively a game of winners and losers played out among larger-than-life individuals, with the rest of us reduced largely to onlookers.

When things go right, people credit their own abilities and intelligence. The onlookers do the reverse. When they see things go well for someone else, they sometimes credit the environment, or luck.

Wasplike with their long slender hulls, these were ships not seen in these waters before. They approached in a line, each flying a large American flag. To the hundreds of onlookers by now gathered on shore, many also carrying American flags, it would be a sight they would never forget and into which they read great meaning. These were the descendants of the colonials returning now at Britain's hour of need....

Heated debate, lengthy discussion and blame game between two groups by only raising name in the public domain, but not taking any punitive action against the same erring person are just a part of the drama whose script was prepared jointly to misguide onlookers by them.

Many social networking site account acts as a mirror reflecting the image of people's mentality in the society as in all such, there is an insignificant number of initiative taker; a very few regular worker; some followers as opportunity seekers; others as neutral bystanders; but most of them as onlookers opening their account only to sneak peek or flip pages to read others posts. However, the most surprising element is one who spends maximum time online without any contribution as such.

So if the language is our guide, the lofty declaration of abstract principles is really a story with a strange and clunky plot. Some people are hanging beneath some other people, connected by cords. As stuff flows by, something forces the lower people to cut the cords and stand beside the upper people, which is what the rules require. They see some onlookers, and clear away the onlookers' view of what forced them to do the cutting.

The onlookers laughed uproariously, and he felt ashamed, he knew not why, for it was his first snow.

The question is, were they born in love with each other, these twins, or did it blossom? At any rate it's already happened, the onlookers agree. It must have. Ask them when they fell. The brother and sister say no, no, it's nothing like that, but what they mean is they can't remember when.

Blame confers an awesome power. And it's simplifying, not only to onlookers and victims, but to culprits most of all.

A work of grace in the soul makes itself known either to the one who has it or to onlookers. Where

It seems natural for people to blame their own misfortunes on the environment. It seems equally natural to blame other people's misfortunes on their personalities. Just the opposite attribution, by the way, is made when things go well. When things go right, people credit their own abilities and intelligence. The onlookers do the reverse. When they see things go well for someone else, they sometimes credit the environment, or luck.

So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.

Dad was not enjoying himself very much either, as is evident from this comment to his mother and sister: "We had a nice time at the Fair if you can call it a nice time to be followed around by thirty newsmen and photographers everywhere and to be mobbed every time an appearance is made . . . I had to ride in an open car and give 'em a Cheshire Cat grin and almost freeze stiff but the onlookers seemed to enjoy it." From the fair Dad drove to Reelfoot Lake