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Quotes About Gaze

Or was it just the eyes of the watcher that gave character to the world?
~ David Anthony Durham
And despite the fact that they all had their eyes open, every one of them looked dead.
~ James Dashner
and sharp-faced, like Boris, but with an evil red-rimmed gaze and tiny, brownish sawteeth. He made me think of a rabid fox.
~ Donna Tartt
And, echoing Jerott, 'So why in hell have you come?' Philippa's gaze, bright and owlish and obstinate, held his to the end. 'To look after the baby,' she answered. And disconcertingly, after a second's blank pause, Francis Crawford flung back his damp head and laughed.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
And then the blue eyes, with gentleness, scanned all her new-made body and came to rest on her eyes. 'I have begun to eat,' said Francis Crawford. 'And I have begun to slake my thirst. But in you I have found a banquet under the heavens that will serve me for ever.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
His elder brother, grey eyes level, held his gaze. "Perfection frightens me," he said. "They're too good, Francis. What do you want this axe-edge for?" "To cut with," said Lymond, his voice mild.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
It sounded well. It sounded rational, even, if you were not Francis Crawford. Put him, blindfold, in a closed room anywhere in the world … Lymond said, 'And that is your only excuse?' And Sybilla met his gaze with eyes as uncompromising as his own. 'I thought I was the excuse for your whole way of life?' she said calmly. And nothing had prepared him for that.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
There was nothing casual about the blue eyes fixed on the downbent blue gaze of the child. Francis Crawford's face in this fleeting moment of privacy was filled with ungovernable feeling: of shock and of pain and of a desire beyond bearing: the desire of the hart which longs for the waterbrook, and does not know, until it sees the pool under the trees, for what it has thirsted.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Jesus said: "And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself" (John 12:32). It is by looking to Jesus on the cross that we are drawn by His love for us. By gazing in faith at our Redeemer's sacrifice, we are saved from the sting of the serpent.
~ Doug Batchelor
Quem olha para o céu à noite está olhando para o infinito; a distância é incompreensível, e portanto sem significado.
~ Douglas Adams
We can be assured of salvation and feel that assurance aright only as we keep our eyes off ourselves and our performance and fix our gaze on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of true saving and sanctifying faith.
~ Douglas Bond
you look at me like an emergency
~ Adrienne Rich
The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.
~ Aeschylus
She transferred her gaze to me. "You are his secretary, I suppose?" "Er—yes," I said doubtfully. "Can you write decent English?" "I hope so." "H'm—where did you go to school?" "Eton." "Then you can't.
~ Agatha Christie
That sombre, thoughtful gaze of his did not leave her face. She did not find it embarrassing. It was too free from self-consciousness for that - a genuine, thoughtful interest.
~ Agatha Christie
She returned that intent gaze quietly and without any nervousness. He said at last:
~ Agatha Christie
eyes scanned the heavens, and he found familiar
~ Alan Russell
I blew it." "How'd you do that?" she asked. I gave her a quick rundown of all my most memorable moments, including the mascara fiasco. "Like he noticed," Bird said when I was finished. "Oh, he noticed. I've never had a guy look at me that hard before. He was probably trying to figure out if it was a birthmark, a tattoo, or if I was preparing for Halloween a few months early.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
Looking at someone who is looking at you was a drug as strong as any other.
~ Rachel Kushner
She hadn't seen the mayor come in, though she knew he was behind her somewhere. She could sense the heat of his gaze, her hair prickly, her neck warm. How thrilling it was to feel this way, rattled by his mere presence, wanting only to give in to his pull. But desire was awful, too, full of trapdoors and sharp hooks.
~ Rae Meadows
Without a wish, without a will, I stood upon that silent hill And stared into the sky until My eyes were blind with stars and still I stared into the sky.
~ Ralph Hodgson
Believe me, men never stare at women, its they who steal our attention - Ramana Pemmaraju
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Jana looked beyond him and saw Mars. She ate Mars for breakfast with her eyes.
~ Randy Russell
The camera looks into your soul.
~ Joe Pantoliano