Quotation Explorer - 'Watches'

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. - Samuel Johnson
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
Like we all sync our watches every year, at the start and at the end of daylight saving time, we also need to sync our relationships once in a while. - Love, Life, and Logic
I do not know why sorrows come and burning teardrops fall;I only know God still is GodAnd watches over all. - John Gilbert
Her eyes are sad.My thoughts are sadder.And you can't fall in love with me.She slowly walks inside, avoiding my gaze as she watches her feet with each step.They're the saddest steps I've ever seentaken.I close the door.It's the saddest door I've ever had to close. - Collleen Hoover
No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
The girl was a gypsy before an illness took control of her legs, now she watches in awe the world pass by whilst stillness teaches her about inner strength. - Nikki Rowe
Be the thermostat in your community, the one who makes a change. Not the thermometer who, just watches - Mya Waechtler
Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration! - Mehmet Murat ildan
It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own. - Alexander Pope
Mother is the dead heart of the family, spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches television. - Germaine Greer
A person can choose to stand against adversity, but most people will run from it before they come to terms with who they truly are, a wise person watches through adversity and follows the signs when it is their turn to stand. - Faith Brashear
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular. - Maximilien Robespierre
A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change. - Wayne W. Dyer
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. - Segal's Law
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it. - Debasish Mridha
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. - Erma Bombeck
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. - Erma Bombeck
Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy. - Alfred A. Montapert
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
In our day heaven and earth are on tiptoe waiting for the emerging of a Spirit-led, Spirit-empowered people. All of creation watches expectantly for the springing up of a disciplined, freely gathered, martyr people who know in this life the power of the kingdom of God. - Richard Foster
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