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I've often observed that women can be the weakest link in women's rights. — Jean Sasson

Wyomingites, Joe had observed, didn't know what to do when it rained except get out of it, watch it through the window, and wait for it to go away. — C.J. Box

What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything. — L. Ron Hubbard

Nothing is real unless it is observed — John Gribbin

The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject. — Amiri Baraka

In the town where I live, I have frequently observed a phenomenon I have come to think of as Samish-Sex Marriage. — George Saunders

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. — C.S. Lewis

And I observed that he had overcome all passion for boys; — Marcus Aurelius

He'd forgotten the ancient wisdom: take care, when you are closely observing, that you are not closely observed. — Terry Pratchett

That's different." "People always say that, you know," Julius observed. "And yet, somehow, it never is. Here we are." They — K.J. Charles

I discovered that in life, one has got to serve to be observed, if one serve not, one will probably be reserved. Don't wisdom teach this? — Samuel Noah Kramer

Your life is a result of life's principles that you either observed or violated. — Sunday Adelaja

Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults. — Nancy Willard

I think you're used to being observed but not really ... seen. — Christina Baker Kline

She looks like a china doll," observed Grandfather as we departed. "I will break just as easily," I muttered. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have. — Robert Adams

You are a good man," she had observed contentedly. "And it has been too long since I had this." He was surprised — Octavia E. Butler

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. — George Bernard Shaw

Why's it so sunny?" she repeated.
Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy," he said. — J.D. Salinger

The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore. — Douglas Adams

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? — Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Only mundanes say they're sorry when what they mean is "I share your grief,"' Jace observed. — Cassandra Clare

Looking deeply" means observing something or someone with so much concentration that the distinction between observer and observed disappears. — Thich Nhat Hanh

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum. — Sam Harris

The realization, early in high school, that a particle behaved differently if observed or left alone. — Lara Santoro

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah. — Jesse Eisenberg

That's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to run away to. — Amor Towles

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate. — Michel De Montaigne

rule is easily observed by removing some of the children of a more fruitful couple to any other family that does not abound so much in them. — Thomas More

I'm always aware of being observed. Always self-conscious. I'm evidently living my life with stage fright. — Donna Cooner

The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things. — Thomas Aquinas

One characteristic that I have observed about the timing of all good traders is that they never try to squeeze out the last point in a stock. — Venita VanCaspel

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. — Stephen Leacock

I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps. — Cassandra Clare

What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily. — Harrison Ford

Rod Serling once observed, The greatest fear of all is fear of the unknown, which you can't share with others. — Guillermo Del Toro

In a Leopard the spotts are not observed. — George Herbert

No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon. — John Archibald Wheeler

It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going. — Groucho Marx

Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil. — Plutarch

What's going on?"
"We seem to be trapped in an episode of One Life to Waste," Magnus observed. "Its all very dull."
-Alec & Magnus, pg.144- — Cassandra Clare

You're in an awfully good mood," he observed. "Was there a sale at Khakis-R-Us? — Richelle Mead

Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver. — Markus Zusak

Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport. — Henry David Thoreau

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Ballet, too, was made more tolerable when observed from a barstool. — Tim Sultan

He had ... regarded travel as a hygienic necessity, which had to be observed against will and inclination. — Thomas Mann

Christmas, when observed with the right spirit, still has the power to call miracles from Heaven to Earth. — Richelle E. Goodrich

As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it. — Max Hastings

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever — Edmund Burke

Another way of putting this is that your thinking self produced some thoughts, and your observing self observed them. — Russ Harris

Cassini - who discovered Japetus in 1671 - also observed that it was six times brighter on one side of its orbit than the other. — Arthur C. Clarke

I think anxiety is very interesting, observed Amy, eating sugar pensively. — Louisa May Alcott

When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory. — Sun Tzu

What many people don't know about 'Peter Pan' is that it's a very violent book and Hook is one of the most finely observed villains ever. — Eoin Colfer

I have observed over a long lifetime that mental stability is not all it's cracked up to be. — Neal Barrett Jr.

The less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason. — Rene Descartes

Observations often tell you more about the observer than the observed. — Chris Geiger

It's a small world," I observed. "When you put it in a cemetery, it is. — Kurt Vonnegut

People make their own history, as Karl Marx once memorably observed, but not under conditions of their own choosing. — Richard J. Evans

Sufficiently close examination changes the thing being observed. — Terry Pratchett

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world. — David Brainerd

It is always better, and far more rewarding, I have observed, to have someone else feel sorry for you, than to do the job yourself. — Alan Bradley

The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed. — Norwood Russell Hanson

Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed. — Edmundo Desnoes

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip. — Eugenio Montale

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last. — Winston Churchill

for I had observed that men did not usually do things unless they liked doing them. — Barbara Pym

Messersmith, in a dispatch, observed that even smart, well-traveled Germans will "sit and calmly tell you the most extraordinary fairy tales. — Erik Larson

I'm not interested in observed reality. — Howard Barker

Do something untoward and there is a good chance that it might be observed, recorded and, given time, judged. — David Friend

I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender. — Jess Row

I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger, nearly half an inch long, and black, fiercely contending with one another. — Henry David Thoreau

As Upton Sinclair famously observed: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it! — Naomi Klein

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever. — Jane Austen

He hadn't observed Kowalski or Debany licking their mates' hands. — Anne Bishop

A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine. — Michael Bolton

said, "What gets measured, gets managed." In the case of our thoughts, what gets observed, gets managed. — Martin Meadows

A life lived from the back seat, observed as it blured by. An indifferent life. — Khaled Hosseini

Oh! here we are the same as anywhere else, when you get to know us,' observed Mrs. Dean, somewhat puzzled at my speech. — Emily Bronte

Sometimes," he observed obliquely, "you have to trust people to understand you are not perfect.""

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All of us have observed how often our erotic attractions reflect a mysterious but consistent taste, almost as if we were ordering a favorite dish — Francine Prose

He felt lonely. His solitude was thrown into relief by being observed. — Michael Frayn

We largely become what we have observed and respected. — Wayde Goodall

The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics. — Tom Stoppard

As has been long observed, men are people, but women are women. — Cordelia Fine

Old age is somewhat like dieting. Every day there is less of us to be observed. — Doris Grumbach

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Murray Harris has observed: One of the classic Christian paradoxes is that freedom leads to slavery and slavery leads to freedom. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

I have observed that whenever you try to hit somebody, there is a tendency for them to try to hit you back. — Charles M. Schulz

The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed. — Samuel Beckett

I read once that the act of observing changes the nature of what is observed. — Christina Baker Kline

A tendancy to melancholy ... let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault. — Abraham Lincoln

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality. — Lafcadio Hearn

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature. — Margot Asquith

If I had a dog that was sick as often as you are, I'd put it down, he observed kindly. — Robin Hobb

As Michel de Montaigne observed, "No wind favors him who has no destined port. — John C. Maxwell

I have observed in foolish awe
The dateless mid-days of the law
And seen indifferent justice done
By everyone on everyone. — Edwin Muir

Conduct thyself always with the same prudence as though thou went observed by ten eyes and pointed at by ten fingers — Confucius