Quotes of: Close-attention Keyword

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

A Room with a View

Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.

The Spice Box of Earth

Become dangerously open to all points of view. Are you dangerously open, or safely closed?

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

Sons and Lovers

For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other goes away.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The only thing for it is to use men for sex and never let any of them get so close they could hurt you.

My Best Friend's Girl

It’s less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can’t stop from happening.

Memoirs of a Geisha

..., living so close to Nature that everything you do is determined by her and each passing minute is felt rather than made use of.

The Map of Love

Problem is (follow me closely here, the science is pretty complicated), if I cut a hole in the Hab, the air won't stay inside anymore.

The Martian

I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I could successfully revolt against it.

My Own Story

... the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep it close or let it go.

The Museum of Extraordinary Things

With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

Norwegian Wood

I'm watching you, big boy, my eyes say, but his are closed so it's an optical monologue.

Loving Day

Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!

Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey

Each night, I close my eyes and dream. In the morning, I open my eyes again, but the dreaming doesn't stop.

The Little Silkworm

The presence of ghosts is only as close as your belief. The existence of aliens is only as far as your rejection.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Inside marriage, those feelings are pure. God wouldn't order us to be fruitful and multiply if He didn't want us to share intimacy. It fosters a special closeness.

Serendipity

It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance.

Saturday

When the guy kissed her, Cassidy felt a stab of pain that was close to physical, and therefore within the penumbra of hurts he told himself he could bear.

Once a Runner

It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

Pandemonium

I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.

Pandemonium