Gazing Quotes

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. - Michael Cibenko

Whoe'er has gone thro' London street,
Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat,
And how he keeps
Gloating upon a sheep's
Or bullock's personals, as if his own;
How he admires his halves
And quarters--and his calves,
As if in truth upon his own legs grown. - Thomas Hood

We won't be so caught up in Disneyland or gazing at the stars and things like that. We know what we are going up there to do, and we won't let things like that get in our way. - Justin Blalock

We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer. - Thomas Carlyle

Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them . . . - Herman Melville

Those who were pre-ordained to have no good karma at all - gazing into the lamp of emotional attachment, they are burnt, like moths in a flame. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

This was not a navel-gazing experience. But it did feel like it was worth saying as a tribute [to my father]. I always equate it to music. Every once in a while, songwriters say, 'This one's more personal than the others.' So I figured, embrace it. - Cameron Crowe

This has been an elaborate exercise in navel gazing. - Dana Milbank

The mind is totally attached to Maya; the mortal has forgotten his fear of old age and death. Gazing upon his family, he blossoms forth like the lotus flower; the deceitful person watches and covets the homes of others. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

The good thing about how the party responded is there's a very considerable sense of unity and purpose about it and determination not to keep being involved in navel gazing, we've done enough of that. - Kim Beazley