Quotes About Spot

and yet still the question was there, and my mind went to it like a tongue probing the tender spot of a loose tooth: it hurt but I wanted to know

I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

The tell-tale mark of religion is easy to spot. It's a one-size-fits-all approach to spirituality: "Follow our rules, fulfill our rituals, and God (or the gods) will be pleased and placated.

Like a child playing at hide-and-seek, I did not move, in case I had been mistaken about being spotted. And childishly I felt both the desire to stay hidden and a thrill of anticipation about being caught. For this face, turned squarely to me, had eyes set directly on mine.

God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Beloved over all...

Thomas was in his usual spot near the fireplace. With his wrinkled clothes and weary demeanor, he looked like a recently fired executive in the middle of a drinking binge.

Wait till the honeying of the lune, love! Die eve, little eve, die! We see that wonder in your eye. We'll meet again, we'll part once more. The spot I'll seek if the hour you'll find. My chart shines high where the blue milk's upset.

Unless it's a dead-straight short putt, you should focus on a spot somewhere along the line you want to roll the ball on.

I'm very confident in my own ability but I'm not guaranteed to get a starting spot.

All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me, Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul.

I love the distant glow in the nighttime desert sky like a worn yellow spot in the dark everything might still slip through — Charlie Smith, from section 1 "Outside Las Vegas" of "Late Days," Jump Soul: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton & Co., 2014)

The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants – At Evening, it is not At Morning, in a Truffled Hut It stop upon a Spot...

Outraged at having the site of the tragedy transformed into what one observer called a "mass murder amusement park," an angry mob tore down the barricade, "and everyone was then free to visit the death spot without charge or restraint.

How could you begin?' said she. 'I can comprehend your going on when you had once made a beginning, but what could set you off in the first place?' 'I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which had laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

If there were more men like you, Mr. Wooster, London would be a better place. This was dead opposite to my Aunt Agatha's philosophy of life, she always having rather given me to understand that it is the presence in it of chappies like me that makes London more or less of a plague spot; but I let it go.

community for bright spots—successful efforts worth emulating.

Sternin's strategy was to search the community for bright spots—successful efforts worth emulating. If some kids were healthy despite their

But perfection is a nervy business, because the moment you spot the tiniest flaw it's ruined.

But perfection is a nervy business, because the moment you spot the tiniest flaw it's ruined. Perfection

Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at until you understood them, they couldn't change halfway through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

If I need to steal from a difficult spot, I like to use a 'bottom-up' attention strategy to direct the focus.

It was like a spot of thin ice on a frozen lake, where the cool safety of the upper world came too close to the dark depths below.