Observing

Famous quotes containing the word observing:

    International relations is security, it’s trade relations, it’s power games. It’s not good-and-bad. But what I saw in Yugoslavia was pure evil. Not ethnic hatred—that’s only like a label. I really had a feeling there that I am observing unleashed human evil ...
    Natasha Dudinska (b. c. 1967)

    Neither look at nor listen to what is improper; do not speak or act without observing propriety.
    —Chinese proverb.

    Confucian Analects.

    We were observing once to Mr. [Samuel] Crisp that the good and the agreeable were seldom united—”Ay begad,” cried he, “’tis rare enough to meet with the one or the other.”
    Frances Burney (1752–1840)