Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

Someday you will look back on all the awful stuff that's happening to you, and fondly smile. Doesn't say much about the future, does it?

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?

Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've just never had to practise it.

There is always a reason. When I look back on things that really upset me at the moment, I can always see why it happened in retrospect.

I look at what is happening with Ryan Giggs at Manchester United now and I am dismayed that Liverpool are letting that experience leave.

I felt foolish and tired, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind to discover there was no one there.

Some Warriors look fierce, but are mild. Some seem timid, but are vicious. Look beyond appearances; position yourself for the advantage.

I love Jennifer Aniston's style. She is streamlined and never overdone. And Demi Moore always looks classic, gorgeous and sophisticated.

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

Look at me Elise. Tell me what you think I’m feeling,” he murmured, then bent his head to hers and pressed his mouth to her parted lips.

Each source that I read, I would look through the bibliography and the footnotes, and use that as a map for the next thing I would read.

When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.

Richard wondered how the marquis managed to make being pushed around in a wheelchair look like a romantic and swashbuckling thing to do.

I look upon youth in admiration and admire them for their curiosity about the world, their shape shifting, their ideas about the future.

You never know what a movie is going to look like when you're shooting it and you just hope it's going to look like it's supposed to be.

I don't look at Twitter between events because it's a distraction but I will ring my fiance and parents to let them know how it's going.

What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it".

I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.

Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.

President Trump is mentally incapable of imagining the humanity of anyone who looks different from him or hails from a different nation.

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

Find out if your girlfriend is a feminist before you get too far into it. Some of them are pretty. They don't all look like Bella Abzug.

Unfortunately I think the Internet knows more about me than I do. I usually look it up to see what I'm going to be doing that next week.

What I like about Pochettino is the way that he looks in control. He is in control of his players, in control of the way that they play.

My God, Jack - with a look like that, you two should just get a room. And try not to pick the one with a dead body next to it this time.

I wear things that kind of can look good for extended periods of time - fabrics that don't wrinkle, things that don't stain very easily.

I’m beginning to think that you don’t find happiness from living your life looking ahead or back… that you find it when you look around.

And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.

I like when you look at me like you can’t figure me out. You’re considering getting to know me, but you’re not sure I’m worth your time.

I like shitty strip clubs. They look like what they are. I know what to expect. Unlike Congress, at least we know everybody is for sale.

I am very impulsive when it comes to experimenting with my looks and love playing with ideas by involving people from all walks of life.

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.

I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn't me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door.

When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun

You look at somebody's work as an actor and you can see their emotional life being fed into it and you can kind of feel them through it.

I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look back on the time when I used to.

There is a massive ecosystem that has to get built that looks like a biosphere. And the various parts of that biosphere better be there.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

The chances of someone who looks like Jesus having pot raises steadily, to a point. If the guy is on a cross you may have the wrong guy.

When a capitalist looks at the river, all they can think about is, "How can I pollute this river and destroy it and make money from it?"

We all want to be loved, don't we? Everyone looks for a way of finding love. It's a constant search for affection in every walk of life.

A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle.

Nothing has man invented yet that will do a better job than heels at making a good pair of legs look great, or great ones look fabulous.

[from a reader] I hope she learns to look for the joy in life instead of picking out negatives - it will change her life for the better.

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