"Looking at" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... by making cross cuts therein in thought. The reason is that there is more in the transition than the series of states, that is to say, the possible cuts—more in the movement than the series of positions, that is to say, the possible stops. Only, the first way of looking at things is conformable to the processes of the human mind; the second requires, on the contrary, that we reverse the bent of our intellectual habits. No wonder, then, if philosophy at first recoiled before such an effort. The Greeks ...
— Creative Evolution • Henri Bergson
... listen. She was looking at a woman selling fried potatoes. She realized that she was hungry and wished to ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... afraid it is too late for that,' said Sir Jasper, looking at his watch. 'I must read her letter ...
— Beechcroft at Rockstone • Charlotte M. Yonge
... you can now," said he, looking at his watch. "It's half past four, and the last car leaves the Cove at four. Besides, your surest way to find this Captain Bannister is to stay right here. He'll be here tomorrow, sure. Then you can go back on the steamboat at noon, if you want ...
— The Voyage of the Hoppergrass • Edmund Lester Pearson
... was not expected to go forth so soon on another. Nor was he accustomed to go out so early in the day. This was the hour in which he ordinarily slept; but there he was, beyond a question, and apparently looking at the party as it passed. So cold was his manner, however, and so indifferent did he seem, that no one would have suspected that he knew aught of what was in contemplation. Having satisfied himself that his friend, the bee-hunter, was not one of those who followed Peter, the Chippewa ...
— Oak Openings • James Fenimore Cooper
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