Eye Quotes by Ted Hughes, Joanne Stepaniak, Willie Morris, Elif Safak, Garrison Keillor, Robert A. Heinlein and many others.
Nothing has changed since I began. My eye has permitted no change. I am going to keep things like this.
To become wholly compassionate requires us to open our eyes and hearts, to behold the pain and exploitation our culture obscures, to arouse deadened emotions, and to rise above our egos.
I came across a photograph of him not long ago… his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air, his tail straight and pointing, his eyes flashing in some momentary excitement. Looking at a faded photograph taken more than forty years before, even as a grown man, I would admit I still missed him.
Our politics is very masculine, very aggressive, and it’s very polarizing. And the pace of this development has increased in recent years. Erdogan is, in my eyes, the most polarizing politician in recent Turkish political history.
I don’t have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.
I had taken a partner once before—but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye
open.
open.
Always watch your back – when I was fourteen I got a tattoo of an eye on the back of my neck, so I could say I was always watchin’ my back.
Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow. Well, perhaps you are right. Perhaps the wise spurn one to remain safe from the other, but I should rather choose to have my eyes burnt in their sockets than to have been born without.
With eye upraised his master’s look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man’s guardian and the poor man’s friend, The only creature faithful to the end.
That’s the process of making the film and it isn’t until the world puts their eyes to it that you find out if it’s creating any kind of connection at all. But every single film at some stage of the film I think, “I wonder what this is going to be?”
In order that the mind should see light instead of darkness, so the entire soul must be turned away from this changing world, until its eye can learn to contemplate reality and that supreme splendor which we have called the good. Hence there may well be an art whose aim would be to effect this very thing.
But-but…” Timmie’s eyes couldn’t get any wider. “Why did you tell her I’m your boyfriend? Why doesn’t she know about your real one?” That was a good question. I cast around for an answer. Any answer. “He’s English!” I settled on desperately. “And Mom…Mom hates foreigners!
Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.
And just as I start to move past him, my hip accidentally rubs against his, and his face is so close, and his eyes so deep, that I can’t help but lift my fingers to his smooth, sculptured cheek. Then without even thinking, I close my eyes, lean in, and kiss him.
To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, a more selective, more acute seeing eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world.
There is an Eye that never sleeps, Beneath the wind of night. There is an ear that never shuts, When sinks the beams of light. There is an Arm that never tires, When human strength gives way. There is a Love that never fails, When earthly loves decay.
I like spaghetti because you don’t have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it’s all the same.
Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There’s still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.
The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond.
I’ve endured quite a bit of physical pain. My mom says that I got my first set of stitches when I was one-and-a-half. A cat got my eye.
Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment–where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels–this moment shows us that what is real is sacred
God washes the eyes by tears unil they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more.
Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.
These books can’t possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all time.” Faukman’s eyes went wide. “Don’t tell me Harry Potter is actually about the Holy Grail.” “I was referring to the Bible.” Faukman cringed. “I knew that.
According to my definition of God, I’m not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I’m looking at God. Whenever I’m listening to something I’m listening to God.
“So decisive”, he murmured in that calm tone that had adrenaline flooding her body, the primitive part of her brain conscious she was in the presence of a predator. “Got your eye on someone?” She didnвЂt know what made her say it. “No. But I have no plans to die a virgin.”
Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
And when that bad news washes over you and that pain sponges in, I just hope you feel like you’ve always got two choices.В One, you can swirl and twirl and gloom and doom forever.В Or two, you can grieve, and then face the future with newly sober eyes.
A woman isn’t all that different from a bonfire. A fire’s a beautiful thing, right? Something you can’t take your eyes off, when it’s burning. If you can keep it contained, it’ll throw light and heat for you. It’s only when it gets out of control that you have to go on the offensive.
Im always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical – Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.
When I am alone the flowers are really seen; I can pay attention to them.В They are felt as presences.В Without them I would die…they change before my eyes.В They live and die in a few days; they keep me closely in touch with the process, with growth, and also with dying.В I am floated on their moments.
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars, its feet for the swords; it continueth, though an army lay waste the pasture; it comforteth when there are no medicines; it hath the relish of manna; and by it do men live in the desert.
My eyes, I have filled with Jesus upon Whom I have fixed them at the Elevation of the Host at Holy Mass and I do not wish to replace Him with any other image
The eye deals with excess more easily than the stomach does.
A Europe that qualifies its own values is not attractive in the eyes of Muslims. Europe must conduct itself as a strong partner, both intellectually and spiritually, and it must be convinced of its own advantages. This is the only way we will gain respect.
Vladimir Putin is a dictator. He’s not a leader. Anybody who thinks otherwise doesn’t know Russian history and they don’t know Vladimir Putin. Hillary Clinton knows exactly who this guy is. John McCain said, I look in his eyes and I see KGB. And Hillary kind of has that same feeling.
In the time it takes us to look beyond the lies, we could be sailing in each other’s eyes.
Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness.
I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn’t know a single person in any of them.
The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the eyes follow you around the room.
If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.
Okay. Enough.” I got out of the closet, brushing myself off, then turned around to face her. “This is happening. So you need to go downstairs, face your fears, and make the best of it, and everything will be okay.” She narrowed her eyes at me. “When did you suddenly become so positive?” “Just get out of there.
People turn their eyes and ears to him (the sage), and the sage cares for them like his own children.
As for my feelings toward “Over the Rainbow”, it’s become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all dreams and wishes that I’m sure that’s why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.
This book blew me away. Kelly Parra writes with the keen eye of an artist. Graffiti Girl is warm, gutsy, and true-to-life – an unflinching, honest portrayal of young adults. A seamless and impressive debut.
He looked up at me with angelic eyes. “Doing what?” “You know what. You’re luring me in. You know I can’t resist-
That Justice is a blind goddess
Is a thing to which we black are wise:
Her bandage hides two festering sores
That once perhaps were eyes.
Is a thing to which we black are wise:
Her bandage hides two festering sores
That once perhaps were eyes.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I’ve got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells.
Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.
O, Great Spirit, open my eyes, open heart’s wings, open my ears to your voice in all things.
I have never known more than fifteen minutes of anxiety or fear. Whenever I feel fearful emotions overtaking me, I just close my eyes and thank God that He is still on the throne reigning over everything and I take comfort in His control over the affairs of my life.
The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind’s eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we can learn our spiritual deformities and beauties. And there too we discover the progress we are making and how far we are from perfection.
I have just read your lousy review. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eightulcer man on a four ulcer job … I have never met you but if I do, you’ll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and a supporter below.
Black Tragedy lets slip her grim disguise and shows you laughing lips and roguish eyes; but when, unmasked, gay Comedy appears, how wan her cheeks are, and what heavy tears!
I think the whole under-eye-bag thing is hereditary, and I just got lucky.
It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they’ve never set eyes on, while continuing to boast that they could live somewhere for twenty years without so much as exchanging pleasantries with their neighbors across the hall.
When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on earth.
The ideal engine of a 3-D game is an intricate and elegant construct of code that allows players to speed through solidly built virtual worlds. The engine allows every picture on a monitor to be drawn there quickly enough to convince hand and eye that it is instantaneous.
I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I’ve always had a keen eye for pretension.
Tired of me already?” he asked with a smile in his voice. “No quite yet. You?” His eyes darkened, and he kissed her again. “Never.” Her heart skipped a beat. “Never is a long time,” she said. His voice was low, fierce. And very sure. “That’s what I’m counting on.
I enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera. But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what I can discover outside my own window. You only need to study the scene with the eyes of a photographer.
It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.
Do nothing through human respect and, when it assails you, say: I shall do neither more nor less for the eyes of creatures. O my God, since I wish to please Thee alone, it suffices that Thou seest me everywhere.
The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth,
From earth to heaven.
Doth glance from heaven to earth,
From earth to heaven.
And if they don’t believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We’ll do all right.
Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.
Funerals often make us want sex-it’s one in the eye for death.
I feel emptiness, and he probably won’t be able to close his eyes for two or three days.
She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She lifted her little savage hand and knocked Emily off the chair, bursting into a passion of sobbing- Sara who never cried.
Almost everything I do is related to my ability to hire good people. I don’t take much of the credit myself. I think I have a good eye.
I don’t think all the blame lies with Wall Street. I think a lot of the blame lies with the [George W.] Bush administration. They went back to trickle-down economics. They took their eye off the mortgage market, they took their eye off the finance markets, and we ended up in a big mess.
People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind’s eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.
Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it’s the life blood of business.
To return to awareness is to notice this new world with baby-eyes, and to appreciate her strangeness.
Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
Current levels of Pentagon spending may not be able to support current defense strategy. The answer to this problem is right before our eyes: cut the money and change the strategy. That would be acting in the name of a conception of national security that was truly strategic.
How dry eyes can get when they are not allowed to cry!
The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.
There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.
Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?
The filmmakers I really love are the ones that let me look through their eyes for a while. They have an aesthetic and social point of view.
If you come over to my house, I’ve had a lot of people be like ‘Hey…did you mean to put these in the dishwasher?’ And I’m like, no they’re actually supposed to be in the freezer because I use them to get rid of under-eye bags when I wake up early in the morning.
Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye.
I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.
Life is like a lunchroom at school. In this industry you’ve got little individual tables of actors, singers, rap stars, this, that, the other. But it’s a big industry that also encompasses anyone in the public eye.
A lot of the hallmark behaviors of autism – flat affect, stimming, not looking someone in the eye – could very easily be misinterpreted as signs of guilt.
An eye critically nice can only be formed by observing well-colored pictures with attention.
The difference between love and logic is that in the eyes of a lover, a toad can be a prince, whereas in the analysis of a logistician, the lover would have to prove that the toad was a prince, an enterprise destined to dull the shine of many a passion.
To meditate is to be aware of what is going on – in our bodies, our feelings our minds, and in the world. When we settle into the present moment, we can see the beauties and wonders before our eyes.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets you fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet.
Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between, filling up their lives with distractions to avoid the emptiness where curiosity should have been.
For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.
I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn’t have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.
One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
She eyes me like a pisces.
Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the directors eyes, you get it right does not allow for very much creative freedom… In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater.
His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.
Underneath Day’s azure eyes, Ocean’s nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite’s destined halls
When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.
I hate cats.” Death’s face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his eye sockets flickered red for an instant. “I SEE,” he said. The tone suggested that death was too good for cat haters.
“Keep looking at me,” she said, laughing as though we were having an amusing conversation. “He’s staring at you. And I mean staring. That boy is undressing you with his eyes. Can you feel it?” Her expression was triumphant.
Could I feel his stare? I can now, thanks, I thought.
Could I feel his stare? I can now, thanks, I thought.
Make use of radio, TV and films discriminatively; only for programs that will enhance our knowledge and culture. Television is tele-visham (tele-poison, in Malayalam). If we are not careful, it can corrupt our culture, damage our eyes and drain away our time.
I tried to tell you. You said you didn’t care, remember?” A muscle ticked below his eye. “You should have told me anyway.” “While you had barbells within your reach? Please. I’m Disease, not Stupid.
When I finally realized that I didn’t want to be a butch, I wanted to sleep with a butch, a whole new world opened up before my eyes.
If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward’s in trouble ’cause no one is home.
Can I take advantage of you in the limo?” His eyes laughed at me. “By all means, angel mine.
Glamour is a shooting star, it catches your eye, but fades away, beauty is the sun always brilliant day after day.
True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.
Roy Keane’s like a shark. He has those eyes. You don’t know if he is going to buy you a drink or eat you.
I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes.
I have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes; on my face they are
still together.
still together.
God is pleased continually to vary His mode of dealing with us, in order that we may not be tempted to trust in donors, or in circumstances, but in Him alone, and to keep our eye fixed upon Him.
No matter what the situation is…close your eyes and think of all the things you could be grateful for in your life right now.
Streamlined time details are especially important, because by having to take a close look, we discover new things. Because of this, details will remain part of the building in the mind’s eye
As a child I drew objects that caught my eye outside the window of my room – the dry twigs, leaves and lizard-like creatures crawling about, the servant chopping firewood and, of course, and number of crows in various postures on the rooftops of the buildings opposite.
I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.
They can’t tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.
Nothing is known for sure, even the person who was there isn’t entirely sure he or she had the same response as the other in that moment. One person might have fallen head over heels, the other might have been thinking about what to have for dinner and inadvertently making eye contact.
As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of envy, notwithstanding their number, ought not to wound our virtue by reason of their insignificance.
That is one of the first things my family, my mother and my grandfather, had taught me about acting: Use your eyes! Not being able to do that physical aspect of it, and having to put it all into your voice? That was a little bit of a challenge.
To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they will say it is because this is a girl with beauty and grace and charm.
May the eyes of cowards never sleep
Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through.
When I looked in his eyes, I just kept on walking.
I’m staring into chocolate eyes. although my brain is clouded and I’m dizzy, I know enough to register that chocolate is the opposite of blue. I don’t want blue. Blue confuses me too much. Chocolate is straight-forward, easier to deal with.
Even a simple imaginary exercise can change your mood: Close your eyes, and take yourself back to your last holiday where there was a lovely warm sun, beautiful sea, relaxed beach and fun meals in the evenings. Open your eyes and consider how you feel now.
I really believe that the aliens are us from the future. It seems to me a very plausible reason that explains a lot of phenomena as opposed to green men with one eye from outer space.
If you have no eyes, do not walk blindly; take a staff in your hand. If you have no staff of insight, do not walk without a guide.
For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.
[Insects] are not only cold-blooded, and green- and yellow-blooded, but are also cased in a clacking horn. They have rigid eyes and brains strung down their backs. But they make up the bulk of our comrades-at-life, so I look to them for a glimmer of companionship.
When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman’s desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, – or will, given time enough.
From the original watchtower through the anchored balloon to the reconnaissance aircraft and remote sensing-satellites, one and the same function has been indefinitely repeated, the eye’s function being the function of a weapon.
The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.
My core competency has really informed my painting. The roots of editing stem from classical paintings – classic painters intended to drive your eye from this conflict to that intrigue, ending with a caprice. That is a montage, that is editing. It became a flipbook in later generations.
Husbands lie, Masha. I should know; I’ve eaten my share. That’s lesson one. Lesson number two: among the topics about which a husband is most likely to lie are money, drink, black eyes, political affiliation, and women who squatted on his lap before and after your sweet self.
Good taste is synonymous with success in all fields of life. It’s not a question of money, but of a trained eye.
my heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut and gritting my teeth, and waiting for it to pass. And it would pass — but slowly, taking its own time, and leaving a dull ache behind.
We are as much informed of a writer’s genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, “the italics are ours.
Truth is merely common sense, say the naive realist. Really? Then where,
precisely, is the location of–a rainbow? In the air? In the eye? In
between? Or somewhere else?
precisely, is the location of–a rainbow? In the air? In the eye? In
between? Or somewhere else?
That’s a real void in my life. I see a lot of people who struggled and went to jail and the dogs were after them. I’d look them in the eyes and say, ‘God almighty, I wish I’d have been there.’
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.
The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and psyche unparalleled in history.
We plan, we toil, we suffer – in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol’s eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.
Sometimes it is better to have someone you mistrust close to you, so that you can keep an eye on him – Chiron
Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I’m not telling lies. Your appearance in the doorway! … You have been my body’s health. Whenever I have read a book, it was you I was reading, not the book, you were the book. You were, you were.
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become decent, till then ridiculous; where the eye is the jury thy apparel is the evidence.
I stared at her closely, studying her face, her eyes, everything. This was the angel that tamed a demon; the soul that trapped him and held him with a power he’d never felt before. Love.
The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God’s Eyes.
I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.
I don’t make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
There are few sights more pleasant to the eye, than a wide cotton field when it is in the bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.
Yoga means union of the individual mind with universal mind, so meditation is considered the essence of yoga. The transformation of the mind and body during meditation is significantly more profound than simply resting with your eyes closed.
The gulfing whale was like a dot in the spell. Yet look upon it, and ‘twould size and swell To its huge self, and the minutest fish Would pass the very hardest gazer’s wish, And show his little eye’s anatomy.
It is a contradiction to support increased development assistance, yet turn a blind eye to actions by multinationals anothers that undermine the tax base of a developing country.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.
I’ll close my eyes, so I won’t see, all of the love that you don’t feel for me.
I just remember watching ‘Brass Eye’ and being so utterly blown away by the scope of it and how much it managed to cram into an episode.
To get involved with a cause, you really have to become aware of it. You have to go on the ground and see with your own eyes, the people who have been affected by it, their process in how they’re combating it, and what the organization represents.
I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.
Fang looked at me, hope in his eyes, and I smirked at him. I save the huge emotional kissy-face for imminent death scenes. This probably didn’t qualify.
You instinctively know that nothing will ever be the same, and you have to carry that knowledge around with you like a huge weight. The next time you see your girl, you can’t look her straight in the eyes the same way you did for all those years.
Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.
Her green eyes came unafraid to his. The connection was so intense that it threatened to drain his sense of self. He felt that he had always known her, that she had always been a part of him, that her needs were his needs.
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn’t find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.
Oh God they got you gun shy You know your skin’s as cold as ice Your eyes are double filtered babe You’re so afraid to be nice There’s no way you’re ready To let your defenses down Though I won’t come on heavy There is a lesson that I’ve found.
From the very start in 1969, I wanted to be a part of helping our Special Olympics athletes succeed. I wanted to be on Eunice Shirver’s team as another set of eyes, another set of hands and a heart working to be there for them, finding a way to help them be the best they can be.
I’m trying to see my own country with fresh eyes.
A stylish person, for me, is one who draws your eye without necessarily being showy; they wear clothes that are beautifully cut, flatter the wearer, and show that they are not impervious to fashion, but not a slave to it either.
You know why you are doing something. And if it is against your life, your principles and ideals it is bothersome. And no one wants to be bothered. So you conveniently try to curtain it off, turn a blind eye, and put it out of sight so that it won’t bother you. This is what the Mind does.
A man who can do everything fully consciously becomes a luminous phenomenon. He is all light, and his whole life is full of fragrance and flowers. The mechanical man lives in dark holes, dirty holes. He does not know the world of light; he is like a blind man. The man of watchfulness is really the man who has eyes.
Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes.
Though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes.
You looked at me, your eyes huge. You we’re like a dog then, waiting for me to throw you a bone . . . waiting for something I could never give you.
This world loses its appeal when the steps become tottering, when the hearing becomes dim, when the faded eyes cannot see as they once did. When loved ones are nearly all gone on ahead, then all the riches or fame or pleasures of this world are baubles and trash.
A person who is anxious to be a leader of the fashion, or one of the first to follow it, will certainly appear in the eyes of judicious men to have nothing better than a frequent change of dress to recommend him to notice.
I can’t even talk to someone and make eye contact.
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates, etc.
Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom.
Gratitude lifts our eyes off the things we lack so we might see the blessings we possess.
We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.
It hardly seemed fair, because, unlike a horse or a Seeing Eye dog, the whole glory of being a bird is that nobody would ever put you to work.
Confronting a stadium audience, you can’t see the whites of their eyes. It’s just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can’t see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low.
Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn’t follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn’t in the public eye. I thought, ‘I’m young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that’s my prerogative.’
Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.
Kids don’t see hate in their eyes. They see the world, and living in it to the best of their abilities. And that’s where love comes from for me.
I’ll never die. I’ll just explode, right there before your eyes, onstage.
His hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see.
Any character you play, you’re on his side. You do have the third eye that looks at what an appalling creature he is, but you have to look at what’s good about him.
The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.
Dreams don’t always have to exist while the sun’s down and your eyes are shut
More than anything else, my mother wanted to be an actress – a famous actress – which in the 1950s was all about being young, sexy, and available. She was all that, and more. She had big blue eyes, alabaster skin, a heart-shaped face, a beautiful figure. She was just a knockout.
Those people on the other side, they will answer any question about climate change by saying, ‘I’m not a scientist.’ Well, I’m not a scientist either. I’m just a grandmother with two eyes and a brain.
Sometimes people come and they have so much pain and confusion in their eyes… what to do? A few words is a little bit of balm but doesn’t really solve the deep disease within.
The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
“Did those nice church ladies come by again?” He nodded. “I asked them if a man died and then the woman remarried, and then the three of them met in heaven, would it be a sin for them to have a threesome, since they were all married in God’s eye. And they decided they were late to be somewhere else.”
She didn’t even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house–it was the eyes, her dancer’s carriage, the way she seemed to deliberate over the smallest movement of her body.
The big contracts go to the girls who are healthy – they need to have a sparkle in their eyes and you can’t fake that if you’re unhealthy.
Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand – the one doing the important job – unnoticed.
Evan stopped completely. He was staring at her with those intense eyes. Staring right into her. Just like he had in those couple of moments when she had thought for a split second, that he wanted to kiss her.
I can’t live without my dark plum eyeliner. I use liquid because it’s easier on my eyes.
The Church now has been placed potentially in the control of the heavenly places once ruled by the prince of the power of the air. But this reconstituted church must engage and defeat the enemy and retake the heavenlies in the name of her Lord, so that the eyes of those still being held captive by Satan will be opened.
Flesh could not keep its glamour, nor eyes their sheen. They would go to nothing soon. But monsters are forever.
Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and leaves no room for daydreaming. This is what makes watching such an inferior form of leisure
Universe is blind; it cannot see us; we must find a way to show ourselves to it and science is the way to open the eyes of the universe!
I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
There is no coming to heaven with dry eyes.
To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.
The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the tyranny meditated against them.
Truth is not always the best basis for happiness. There are certain lies which may constitute a far better and more secure foundation of happiness. There are people who perish when their eyes are opened.
If you want to belong to the best, you need good technique and, perhaps even more importantly, a good eye. If you see the ball sooner, you have more time to think about how and where to return it.
I don’t want unnecessary violence, sergeant,” said Blouse. “Right you are, sir!” said the sergeant. “Carborundum! First man comes through that door runnin’, I want him nailed to the wall!” He caught the lieutenant’s eye, and added: “But not too hard!
Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your minds eye. Thats an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.
Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It’s always the unspoken word and what’s happening behind someone’s eyes that makes it so rich.
I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing.
I believe a lot in the relationship between performers. When you’re supported by someone’s eyes, you’re not alone.
Stay in the Word. The moment you start letting go of that, you’re on the road to compromise. Stay grounded, remain pure, keep your eyes fixed on Jesus.
two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes
When people have a sense of our military capability, nobody will ever dare to cast an evil eye on our nation.
Don’t become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause a declination of value and reputation. Create value, through scarcity.
for man, woman, and child the tender, irregular, sensitive, living foot, which does not even stand with all its little surface on the ground, and which makes no base to satisfy an architectural eye, is, as it were, the unexpected thing. … nothing makes a more helpless and unsymmetrical sign than does a naked foot.
We see the moon, don’t we? So it’s our eye. Animals see us, don’t they? So we’re their animals.
My jaw dropped open. Holy crows…There’s a couple of eagles mixed in there, Luke commented.And a few hawks, Aiden added.I rolled my eyes. Okay. Holy birds of prey! Is that better?Much, Aiden murmured.
The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least.
To get rid of swelling… I put green tea bags on my eyelids. Or I grab cold spoons that I leave in the freezer and put them on my eyes.
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed (Albert Einstein)
Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.
Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter.
Cute. I think I would prefer to be stabbed in the eye rather than be called cute.
Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?
DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand.
Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone tries to claim sole custody of the flag and weild it as a blunt instrument. There are as many ways to love America as there are Americans, and our country needs us all.
Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?” Bob’s eyes darted nervously. “I’d . . . prefer not to. I’d really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out.
The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.
When you’re acting in front of a camera, you can really give all of your emotions with your eyes so the camera can see it. When you’re in voiceover, you can’t do that at all. It’s a lot tougher because you have to convey this emotion, and you have to have a lot of trust in the animators.
I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.
For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes-as though one were standing beside a jungle and it suddenly transformed itself into a Dutch garden.
You’re nice to me because you think I’m pretty?” “And because you have brown eyes. I’m a sucker for big old brown eyes.
My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.
Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears.
Kinsey was never a lawyer. She’s strictly blue collar.
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
I see through my eyes, not with them.
The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.
Except for the woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than the automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of esthetic appreciation.
I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard’s study; because he would make love to me I am sending back the key; in his eye’s darkroom I can see my X-rayed heart, dissected body: I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard s study.
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly.
Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph that I found, or to a film that I have seen or to just most of the time, just daily walking through life and keeping your eyes open.
When the star dies, Its eye closes; tired of watching, It flies back to its first bright dream.
and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it’s giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran have ‘nookyular capabacity.
There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.
Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way
She (Rachel) pulled away and looked into his eyes. “Don’t give up.” “There goes my plan.” “I’m serious. Even if things look bad, find a way to win. Find it.” “You too,” Jason urged. “Within reason. Don’t try some huge Edomic command and blow yourself to pieces.” “There goes my plan.” “You stole my line.
With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing.
In the absolute sense – kind of from the God’s-eye view – God might feel like, “I made this thing that has all of that in it, all the horror and all the beauty.”
Smile, it’s better than a poke in the eye.
I am particularly distressed when people in the public eye who influence our culture perpetuate sexism.
My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.
Harry,” Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, “what you know about women, I could juggle.
Kurt Cobain, when he did his videos, you look into his eyes and he couldn’t even face the camera; he was in pain and I’m angry about Kurt. This guy didn’t have to die.
I get so nervous on stage I can’t help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it’s pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I’m going to be able to deliver.
Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives.
I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it’s their supper time. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes.
we drove on and on, past little villages and both good things and bad things were happening to the people in those villages too, but I still was nothing but arms and ears and eyes and maybe there’d be either some good luck for me or more death tomorrow.
If you gave me just a coin for every time we say goodbyeWell I’d be rich beyond my dreams, I’m sorry for my weary lifeI know I’m not perfect but I can smileand I hope that you see this heart behind my tired eyes.
Each step, each strain of the eye Opens out a new horizon; And every day throws in our way Something new, to grow more wise on.
She was the best model because she not only had perfect facial features, but a great body and wasn’t ashamed to show it. It was impossible to take a bad photo of her. Bettie Page was always ready for the camera’s eye.
People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.
I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.
It’s really crucial to achieve that balance with a film like this, cause it is unique and witty and then there’s the tendency to force that. It becomes contrived and I know the feeling like, give me a fork that I can stab in my eye in those kinds of movies.
Open your eyes! The world is still intact; it is as pristine as it was on the first day, as fresh as milk!
On the lids, I stick to browns and golds. It doesn’t look like I’m wearing a lot on my eyes, but I don’t really know how to do a smoky eye, so I just try and keep it pretty easy.
For those women sin against God when they rub their skin with ointments, stain their cheeks with rouge, and make their eyes prominent with antimony. To them, I suppose, the artistic skill of God is displeasing!
The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, ‘How could an organ so complex evolve?’ This is not an argument, it is simply an affirmation of incredulity.
Catherine […] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.
I think as the beauty industry moves forward, you will start to see more brands opening their eyes and becoming vegan. Excluding a huge part of the beauty consumers who only buy vegan, isn’t right and if you can make just as high-quality makeup, why not stop cruelty?
Sometimes you have to bite the bullet. Not only must you learn to accept their gaze with your eyes but also with your heart.
The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body… for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul.
Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.
Seeing women on television was very important to me. It opened my eyes to the possibilities of women’s sports. It showed me what I could do and who I could be.
Often I’ll do research just to get a time period correct, but I didn’t have to for the ’70s… I feel like I can close my eyes and still see it so clearly.
Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.
I mean *sigh* Sickening eyes I can tell that you’re in touch with your feminine side
The arts are part of a nation’s identity, they are part of a nation’s soul and when we look at a country from the eyes of people overseas they are part of a nations branding in the world as it were.
Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help them.
Stick to the script like paper clips and coffee stains, Never let a seed of doubt deter you from your lofty aims, The will is much stronger than the flesh, And it only gets stronger when you going through duress, Imagination is the factory that makes legends… Close Your Eyes and dream B.I.G. like Faith Evans.
Having an eye for beauty isn’t the same thing as a weakness…except possibly when it comes to you.
See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.
I’ve seen that many times in rural African villages where people have nothing but a hut and a bowl. The joy in the children’s eyes is something you wish you could package and bring back to America.
I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.
We forget about the space between the stars, the pure and perfect space that’s also the eye of God. To penetrate the mystery is to become the mystery; to penetrate infinity is to become infinity; to penetrate light is to become light.
You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject.
I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.
I just am a Canadian. It is not a thing which you can escape from. It is like having blue eyes
He [Kai] blinked. His eyes fell as he processed her response. Then he lifted his chin and attempted a grin that was almost painfully dejected. “No, it’s all right. I understand.” Dr. Erland leaned back against his desk. “My sincerest condolences, Your Highness. In more ways than one, it seems.
Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it’s nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting – watch the eyes!
The man with a heart cannot think about or see creatures without his eyes filling up with tears because of the immense compassion which seizes his heart.
Every tree and plant in the medouw seemed to be dancing, those with average eyes would see as fixed and still.
Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon.
The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
Basic human contact – the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words – is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you’re feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.
I just didn’t want her to get hurt. I thought she was going to be. But everyone gets their share, don’t they? Sure. Pow, in the nose. Pow, in the eye. Pow, below the belt, down you go, and the ref just went out for a hot dog.
My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments.
Firepaw held the menacing amber gaze for few moments. Warrior and apprentice, for a heartbeat their eyes were locked as enemies.
Pens?” Chase echoed. Bridget rolled her eyes. “Pens are by far more stimulating than most people.” “I’m kind of wondering what you’re going with those pens,” Chase said Madison scrunched up her nose. “Get your mind out of the gutter.” “My mind is always in the gutter around you.
I am who I am in the eyes of God-
nothing more and nothing less.
nothing more and nothing less.
Men have got more of a discerning eye. They appreciate cut and details, things that aren’t so obvious. They like things that have cachet and gentlemanliness.
… so long as woman sat with bandaged eyes and manacled hands, fast bound in the clamps of ignorance and inaction, the world of thought moved in its orbit like the revolutions of the moon; with one face (the man’s face) always out, so that the spectator could not distinguish whether it was disc or sphere.
I have made many mistakes myself; in learning the anatomy of the eye I dare say, I have spoiled a hatfull; the best surgeon, like the best general, is he who makes the fewest mistakes.
There is this miraculous thing I heard Hugh Grant talking about – the thing about screen acting is that you can read people’s thoughts. You are trying to register something inside and usually the eyes in cinema are where you will register that.
It is possible to tell things by a handshake. I like the “looking in the eye” syndrome. It conveys interest. I like the firm, though not bone crushing shake. The bone crusher is trying too hard to “macho it.” The clammy or diffident handshake – fairly or unfairly – get me off to a bad start with a person.
The eye… the point where a person’s identity is concentrated.
Trump’s election has opened many people’s eyes in Europe to how valuable the European Union and international cooperation are.
I’ve always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
They gave me eyes. All of you are beautiful; you shine like stars. But I must go away with them.
God grant, if we must have two eyes, that they may be both clear ones, one the eye of faith wholly fixed on Christ, the other the eye of obedience equally and wholly fixed on the same objective!
I’ve never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it’s a totally different experience. When you read a book, the story definitely takes place in your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little cloud all around it, like a fuzzy knit cap pulled down over your eyes
He found Pendergast’s cool gaze on him, and he fidgeted. He’d forgotten about those eyes. They made you feel like you had just been stripped of your secrets.
Do not tell me what I can and cannot do. I’ll be as asian as I want to (Stretches his eyes in a racist manner).
Luke indicated Simon and Clary with a wave of his hand. ‘I brought some people to see you.’ Jace’s eyes moved to them. They were as blanked as if the had been painted. ‘Unfortunately, ‘ he said, ‘I only had the one pencil.
Rather than someone that i can’t take my eyes off, I want to find someone that I can’t take my heart off
In London, people can be so… well, it’s not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don’t make any contact in London. You go from A to B with your eyes on the pavement.
His eyes held hers. “Because I knew, ten seconds after walking into this office and meeting you, that we had this in the bag.
One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.
The world is abundant with food for us, and with everything we need, if only we just open our eyes. There’s so much food that gets thrown out or never harvested.
If the eye of the heart is open, in each atom there will be one hundred secrets
If you look at the whole life of the planet, we – you know, Man – has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all out, that is a return to normality.
The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes.
She tried to swallow, to take a breath, but her eyes met his, and there was nothing but aching intensity in his gaze. And she was drawn in, swept away.
Again and again, I’ve seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies – assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged.
We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.
If you do not possess the staff of caution and discrimination, use the eyes of him who sees. If there is no staff of caution and discrimination, do not wander on the road without a guide.
The true voyage of discovery is not a journey to a new place; it is learning to see with new eyes.
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.
TLC has helped me to know that as a musician, I can talk about anything; that there are no barriers, and that you can be yourself. That’s what I love about them. Left Eye in particular helped me to stay on top of my A game. She’s one of the best female MCs that I’ve heard.
Everyone has kind of done something that is bad and everyone has shades of good, but everyone has that darkness. There’s always that little twinkle of darkness in everyone’s eye.
I am terribly British. Especially in the eyes of Americans. I drink several gallons of tea a day, I’m often excessively polite and it’s only through many years of expensive and painful dental work that I don’t have bad teeth.
When we see what He has for us there, we’ll agree with Paul, when he wrote about Heaven, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him (1 Corinthians 2:9). – Things we didn’t even imagine could be so beautiful and wonderful.
You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you’ll be in the ditch, flies buzzin’ around your eyes.
I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.
O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize,
And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
The closing of our earthly eyes is such a simple event. The shedding of the physical body does not solve the fundamental problems of enlightenment, just as changing ones clothes has nothing to do with the deep questions of life and destiny.
I always keep my eye focused on what I would and want to wear.
The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body.
[Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]
[Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]
The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men.
Every day it gets easier to look into my own eyes on the mirror and say, “I love you just the way you are.”
But you have to look at your work with an honest critical eye. Work on the things that you need work on. Scare yourself. Surprise yourself. If you don’t like the way it’s going, you have complete control over changing the course. That’s one of the best things about doing this.
In the eye of the tornado, there’s no more high and low, no floor and sky.
somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near
…for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.
Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.
Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We’ll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor.
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
Listen up. Rant would tell people: вЂYou’re a different human being to everybody you meet.’ Sometimes Rant said, вЂYou only ever is in the eyes of other folks.’ If you were going to carve a quote on his grave, his favorite saying was: вЂThe future you have tomorrow won’t be the same future you had yesterday.
Whoever you may be, always have God before your eyes; whatever you do, do it according to the testimony of the holy Scriptures; in whatever place you live, do not easily leave it. Keep these three precepts and you will be saved.
Lettering should be invisible. You shouldn’t notice it, unless it is a determined piece of storytelling in graphic design. Whether handmade or digital, the lettering should be easy on the eye and well placed. It should help tell the story and do nothing to get in the way of it.
No matter what happens, I’ll always come back to you.” “Promise?” I asked in a shaky voice. Logan’s eyes burned with icy determination. “Promise.
I’d love to play Neil Kinnock. Because of my ginger hair, I thought that was a possibility. He’s a hero and a villain in most people’s eyes, but I’d like to do that, I think I’d be right for it.
If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it is indistinguishable from higher mathematics.
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all
I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,–a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.
Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.
It’s a pleasure to play my sister because everything I’ve accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.
Making a film from the point of view of a young boy’s eyes opened the door to another universe with lots of freedom and to explore a new dimension. This was achieved as I started doing things that were close to what exists in a child’s universe.
The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.
Look with all your eyes, look.
Some experience is helpful. “The Pianist” was a film that I could make with my eyes closed because I had lived it and everything was still alive in me.
I’m into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.
Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof.
Life is a vapor. It passes in the blink of an eye.
Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but us sheep know, true beauty is not in the eye: it lives in the mind.
I want to see abstract art move. Especially in the ’30s, you had animators doing innovative work, and I was entranced by that. It’s basically what you see when you close your eyes, when you fall asleep.
Eyes that displace the neighbor diamond, and outface that sunshine by their own sweet grace.
Every day, we communicate more with our energy, body language, face and eyes. That really is what communication is, and not so much words. And it’s rare that you get to explore that in a film.
Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent’s eyes of china blue.
Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind’s eye. That’s an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.
Constant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce constant astonishment as we notice, more and more often, how much of our perceptions emerge from our preconceptions.
Nobody has your eyes. They can look at the exact same thing & could never see what you see.
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.
Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It’s an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.
Starry Starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer’s day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land.
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer’s day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land.
What the eyes sees, the ear hears, and the mind believes.
I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They’re like you and me.
I like that stick of yours,” he said. “It’s a staff.” Jem swung out to knock another automaton sideways. “Made by the Iron Sisters, only for Silent Brothers.” […] “Anyone can sharpen a stick.” “It’s a staff,” Jem repeated, and saw Will’s quicksilver smile out of the corner of his eye.
I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be one.
Even goats may have starlight in their eyes.
As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay.
He that would be content with a mean condition must not cast his eye upon one that is in a far better estate than himself, but let him look upon him that is lower than he is, and, if he see that such a one bears poverty comfortably, it will help to quiet him.
When I became vegan 5 years ago, it was truly eye opening. I think it’s all about perspective, really.
Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.
Leave your bed upon the first desertion of sleep; it being ill for the eye’s to read lying, and worse for the mind to be idle; since the head during that laziness is commonly a cage for unclean thoughts.
Most people don’t understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
I look my victims in the eyes before I take their lunch money.
The most powerful thing that can happen in the place of prayer is that you yourself become the prayer. You leave the prayer room able as Jesus’ hands and feet on earth. This is what it means to pray continually (without ceasing), to see with the eyes of Jesus and to hear with His ears with every waking moment.
Have you been smoking something? Seriously, I think you’re a werewolf. This new snarky attitude is a dead giveaway.” “And vampires aren’t snarky?” Kylie rolled her eyes. “No, we’re pissy. Snarky and pissy are two totally different things.
We become like what we focus upon. Fix your eyes upon Christ and be conformed into His image.
He rolled his eyes. “First, my Dad’s Korean and my mom was Swedish. Second, I totally suck at math. I don’t like cuckoo clocks or skiing or fancy chocolate either.” I sputtered a laugh. “I think that’s Swiss.
When I started using the extreme short depth of field and single point of focus, I was trying to replicate my changing eyesight. We have binocular vision; one eye perceives space from the other. I don’t experience a scene visually at F32. It’s more like F1.4.
When I look in the mirror, I see my late mother: I have her nose, her dark eyes – I call them chocolate eyes – I have her colouring, and my hair is greying the same way, although I use colour and she didn’t.
If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes — no other marks or brands recollected.
Nothing happens carelessly. We’re not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an hour, that dies before it can lay eyes on those who made it, even that soul did not live without purpose: this is my sudden certainty.
What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others.
To die is as if one’s eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.
To know and experience what God can do, we must first realize and acknowledge what we cannot do. We must get our eyes off of ourselves and our limited ability, and totally onto Him and His infinite power.
I’ll feel that horrible feeling in my stomach you get when you’ve gone over to the Dark Side. But I’ll be fine. That’s the good thing about the Dark Side. Eventually, your eyes adjust.
How wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul. The intellect of man is enthroned visibly on his forehead and in his eye, and the heart of man is written on his countenance, but the soul, the soul reveals itself in the voice only.
Repentance is replete with radical implications for a fundamental change of mind not only turns us from the sinful past, but also transforms our life plan, ethics, and actions as we begin to see the world through God’s eyes rather than ours. That kind of transformation requires the ultimate surrender of self.
Just spend a few more months playing video games. That hand-eye coordination will come in handy when you get to third base.
Although I had good hand-eye coordination, I was so tall and skinny and muscularly weak that I just was not well coordinated. But what I started to do quite early on was watch some of the great old silent comedians, like Laurel and Hardy and Chaplin, and then later on Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton.
Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film.
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?
The supposition that it was possible for any woman to be so mean-spirited as not at least to wish to tear out her rival’s eyes was too hard for the digestion of the Cry.
I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.
All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye.
To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
What you do with your eyes in some cases is a matter of life and death. To look at focus on the sickness brings death. To look at focus on God’s Word brings life.
I have no knowledge other than that gained through my own eyes.
Sometimes you just close your eyes and jump… you don’t think too long or maybe you just won’t. Sometimes you just follow your heart, don’t analyze too long, or maybe it might just be gone.
As his hands moved to his trousers, he saw that she was pulling the bedsheets over her. “Don’t,” he said, barely recognizing his own voice. Her eyes met his, and he said, “I’ll be your blanket”.
Television will enormously enlarge the eye’s range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
The eyes are the windows of the soul.
Peeling off my skin / leaving just my eyes behind / You see inside my head / Still know that you are mine.
Remember that vision on the Mount of Transfiguration; and let it be ours, even in the glare of earthly joys and brightnesses, to lift up our eyes, like those wondering three, and see no man any more, save Jesus only.
A characteristic thing about the aspiring immigrant is the fact that he is not content to progress alone. Solitary success is imperfect success in his eyes. He must take his family with him as he rises.
but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.
I tensed for the spring, my eyes squinting as I cringed away, and the sound of Edward’s furious roar echoed distantly in the back of my head. His name burst through all the walls I’d built to contain it. Edward, Edward, Edward. I was going to die. It shouldn’t matter if I thought of him now. Edward, I love you.
Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.
Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.
I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.
I can still see her face — The sorrow in her eyes, her voice, as she condemns me. I didn’t know it was possible to feel such shame. To feel so sick at heart. I’m lost inside, my soul — all that I thought I was, and am, and ever will be — shattered, cast to the winds. Compared to this, death is a mercy.
How did you get here?
Close your eyes . . .
and surrender!
Close your eyes . . .
and surrender!
The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.
There’s great beauty on this world if you just have the eyes to see it.
We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside…Inside.
Never take your eyes off your opponent, even when you bow.
If you were to try and pick him out of a group of boys, you’d be wrong. He’d be the other one. Over at the side. The one your eye slipped over.
Look from the blind man’s eye…. You can paint the picture, the way you like about this world, so why not think positive and make this world more beautiful for yourself and others?
Sorry,” he said. “Let me drop the belt-” “No.” She held on when he would have pulled away. “Don’t. I like it.” Again, he lifted her face, and he smiled. “The tool belt turns you on.” “No.” She closed her eyes and thunked her forehead to his chest. “Little bit.
Cracks especially. You have to be careful of the cracks.. Sometimes they are disguised as something else. A doorway, or a smile or even a winking eye. And if you fall through them, you never know were you will end up.
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
If you haven’t used Bitcoin first-hand, you may not get the inherent advantage of a quicker appreciation and understanding of its potential. Seeing assets move swiftly without intermediaries is an eye opening experience, and that is just a starting point.
Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you.
If the eyes are the window to your soul open eyes bring the cold.
When Byron’s eyes were shut in death, We bow’d our head and held our breath. He taught us little; but our soul Had felt his like a thunder roll. . . . We watch’d the fount of fiery life Which serv’d for that Titanic life.
If you have true gratitude, it will express itself automatically. It will be visible in your eyes, around your being, in your aura. It is like the fragrance of a flower. In most cases if there is a beautiful flower, the fragrance will be there naturally. The flower and its fragrance cannot be separated.
The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that period of our history
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
I’m so grateful that I had the luxury of transitioning in private. Because when you transition in the public eye, the transition becomes the story.
Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.
I have a jaundiced eye but a young mind.
I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.
Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.
I was taught from childhood of the sanctity of food. Not a piece of bread could be thrown away without kissing it and raising it to one’s eyes as with all things holy.
George W. Bush promised us a foreign policy with humility. Instead, he has brought us humiliation in the eyes of the world. He promised to restore honor and integrity to the White House. Instead, he has brought deep dishonor to our country and built a durable reputation as the most dishonest president since Richard M. Nixon.
I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
Tears from our sex are not always the results of grief; they are frequently no more than little sympathetic tributes which we pay to our fellow-beings, while the mind and the heart are steeled against the weakness which our eyes indicate.
Her air, her manners, all who saw admir’d; Courteous though coy, and gentle though retir’d; The joy of youth and health her eyes display’d, And ease of heart her every look convey’d.
Good organization,” said Magnus. “I knew the man who founded it, back in the 1800s. Woolsey Scot. Respectable old werewolf family.” Alec made an ugly sound in the back of his throat. “Did you sleep with him, too?” Magnus’s cat eyes widened. “Alexander!
With the advent of winter, her eyes seemed to take on a greater transparency, a transparency that lead nowhere. Occassionally, for no particular reason, Naoko would gaze into my eyes as if searching for something. Each time I was filled with odd sensations of lonliness and inadequecy.
Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.
Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his skin, questing, moving, exploring: gliding through his mind. It slipped into his lungs, behind his eyes, into his mouth.
I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious because you couldn’t grasp what they’re really thinking. I mean, Grace Kelly always looked impossibly glamorous, yet you could always see there was something behind her eyes.
Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that’s in your audience’s eye.
I really have to keep an eye on myself, because sometimes I think I might say something important.
But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands – fantastic.
I proceeded to take that mitten full of the deadly yellow snow crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous circular motion.
Long enough have you dream’d contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life
Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests.” Jace edged into the doorway, sizing up Magnus with his eyes. “Even if one of them spills a drink on my new shoes?” “Even then.
A sad smile crossed her face, and I knew right then what she was trying to tell me. Her eyes never left mine as she finally said the words that numbed my soul. I’m dying, Landon.
Brew me a cup for a winter’s night.
For the wind howls loud and the furies fight;
Spice it with love and stir it with care,
And I’ll toast our bright eyes,
my sweetheart fair.
For the wind howls loud and the furies fight;
Spice it with love and stir it with care,
And I’ll toast our bright eyes,
my sweetheart fair.
He sounds exactly like Moody,” said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. “‘Constant vigilance!’ You’d think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.
Are you the one with the blue eyes?” “Actually, my eyes are usually described as golden…and luminous.
You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you’re not willing to open your eyes and see the world more clearly. See some of the injustice that’s going on. Try to make yourself aware of what’s happening in the world. And when you are aware, you have a responsibility to act.
Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes;
And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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.
I’ve always been fond of the advice I once heard from Robert Frank, “Keep your eyes open.”
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell.
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell.
…he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say ‘The town is near,’ but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.
Indian actors know how to shout with the eyes.
I don’t find most people to be as politically engaged as I am. I do find people that appreciate eye-opening events and words, and who want to learn more about what’s going on. I do find people with a lot of opinions. And I get a lot of people who come up to me and give us props for what we do.
Love can be used to drain people. Through eye contact people send a cord out to drain you long distance. Through sexual manipulation, anyone who can make you like them can drain you.
The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.
Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.
I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever do sort of come through you. You don’t know where you get the impetus and response to what’s before your eyes.
Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity of that on which he looks; and a person wishing to see a city or country goes to the place in order to do so.
One of the things that I noticed with my own eyes was Nelson Mandela ability to engage with kings and queens and heads of state on the one hand, and his ability to engage with ordinary people, equally comfortably.
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.
It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I’m quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.
Athens is the birthplace of modern tragedy. In the Greek tragic plays, the tableau of the characters would become a statue, like the statue of Oedipus reaching up to the Gods with blood spilling out of his eyes. I love the way the Greeks would immortalize experience. Things that all of us feel.
Let me give you a word of advice. A loyalty that holds fast will become a blade, and will some day pierce those you hold dear. Open both eyes wide. That is, if you… don’t want to end up like me.
Will you look into my eyes and tell me that you love me now?
Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.
Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.
Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.
With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.
But he would have us most of all remember to be enthusiastic over the night. Not only for the sense of wonder it alone has to offer but also because it needs our love. For with sad eyes its delectable creatures look up and beg us dumbly to ask them to follow. They are exiles who long for a future that lies in our power.
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man’s child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.
Popularity’s a weird thing. You can’t really define it, and it’s not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn.
Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else’s eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven’t actually experienced.
I’d like to have enough time and quiet
To think about absolutely nothing,
To not ever feel myself living,
To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected.
To think about absolutely nothing,
To not ever feel myself living,
To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected.
To have seen much and to have nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands.
Whoever be the instruments of any good to us, of whatever sort, we must look above them, and eye the hand and counsel of God in it, which is the first spring, and be duly thankful to God for it. And whatever evil of crosses or afflictions befalls us, we must look above the instruments of it to God.
A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.
When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
The understanding eye sees the maker’s fingerprints. They are evident in every detail … Leave Fingerprints.
It’s no good operating on eyes if your eyes are asleep.
I’m a smoky eye girl. I love playing with eye colors, metallics… fun stuff!
Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.
O spring, I know thee! Seek for sweet surprise / In the young children’s eyes. / But I have learnt the years, and know the yet / Leaf-folded violet.
We cannot avert our eyes without staining our souls.
Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.
You’ll get used to it. In the end you won’t even notice it anymore,” he said. “How is that possible? It will always be there, right before my eyes.” “Exactly,” said Mattia. “Which is precisely why you won’t see it anymore.
Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.
Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.
No moon, sun, diamond, hands — fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.
I struggled with being in the public eye, losing my anonymity when my star rose quickly in the late 90’s. But I need the challenge of showing up and getting up there to spill my guts and connect with my loyal folks.
You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting you.
Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.
I don’t really do glasses. It’s a good look, but I’m not big on wearing clear glasses for fashion. And I don’t wear too many shades because my fans love to see my eyes.
You changed the subject.” “From what?” “The empty-headed girls who think you’re sexy.” “You know.” “Know what?” “That I only have eyes for you.
Hovering near panic, trying to focus but finding it hard to open my eyes. My heart was pounding. I couldn’t get enough air, and I couldn’t find the desire to push her away
Faith gives new light to the soul, but it does not put our eyes out; and what God hathgivenusinournature could never be intended as a snare to Religion, or engage us to believe a lie.
Imagination is the organ through which the soul within us recognizes a soul without us; the spiritual eye by which the mind perceives and converses with the spiritualities of nature under her material forms; which tends to exalt even the senses into soul by discerning a soul in the objects of sense.
The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its china walls unrecorded.
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
All that happens in our lives which we find painful, physically or emotionally, is for a purpose. Unfortunately, from our very limited perspective it is often not possible to see the good in it. The divine plan is not available to our eyes.
Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower, and acquire, day after day, fresh beauty and growing sweetness, so as to fill every eye with pleasure and every heart with admiration?
To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master’s painting and a forgery.
In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye to take in the meaning of the print as do the black letters.
Does God know if I am ignored or rejected? Find the answer in the compassionate eyes of Christ as he stands to defend the adulterous woman.
Well, for me, my favourite ‘Indiana Jones’ is ‘The Last Crusade,’ because you get tears in your eyes when you see the old guard standing at the end, so that’s my favourite one.
Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye.
We conquered the world with bravery and might, but we did not take it with us to the grave.
We conquered the world with bravery and might, but we did not take it with us to the grave.
Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind; Veil upon veil will lift but there must be Veil upon veil behind.
Westly, Westly, Westly, Westly, Westly,–darling Westly, adored Westly, sweet perfect Westly, whisper that I have a chance to win your love.” And with that, she dared the bravest thing she’d ever done: she looked right into his eyes. He closed the door in her face.
I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone’s eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
I like to bring some hydrating face oils and de-puffing eye patches in case I get puffy on the flight. I also always am sure to travel with my own silk eye mask; it’s so necessary when trying to sleep on flights.
No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
Why do we close our eyes when we pray, cry, kiss, or dream? Because the most beautiful things in life are not seen but felt by the heart.
The wild mustard in Southern California is like that spoken of in the New Testament. . . . Its gold is as distinct a value to the eye as the nugget gold is in the pocket.
I closed my eyes, held my breath and then everything went black.
Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.
A boy got a splinter in his eye, and his heart turned cold. Only two people noticed. One was a witch, and she took him for her own. The other was his best friend. And she went after him in ill-considered shoes, brave and completely unprepared.
The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature’s west!
A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart.
Burzum is not a political or religious band, or even an anti-religious band. Burzum is music – art if you like – and the interpretation of art lies in the eye of the beholder.
In your eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins.
There is a flower, a little flower With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky.
I have a coconut oil stick, which I use for everything – on my eye lids to make them shinier, on my lips, and on any dry skin.
I stroked Eric’s hair, tucking some behind his ear. His eyes on mine were intent, and I knew he was waiting for me to speak. “I wish,” I said, “I could save orgasms in a jar for when i need them, because I think I had a few extra.” Eric’s eyes widened, and all of a sudden he roared with laughter. (Dead to the World)
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring.
So, have we solved the secret of happiness? “I believe so,” he said Are you going to tell me? “Yes.Ready?” Ready. “Be satisfied.” That’s it? “Be greatful.” That’s it? “For what you have.For the love you receive.And for what God has given you.” That’s it? He looked me in the eye.Then he sighed deeply. “That’s it.
Some things take so long But how do I explain When not too many people Can see we’re all the same And because of all their tears Your eyes can’t hope to see The beauty that surrounds them Now, isn’t it a pity
I don’t know how, or whether it is even possible to predict what the world will look like the next day. I simply have to close my eyes, and wait until tomorrow in order to find out.
I find great lighting and a squint of the eyes makes anyone look better.
Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.
Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that’s because I see myself with my face washed, and to me I look like a rabbit.
An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord –
People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird’s eye view and they don’t create a systematic plan.
I have a rule on my team: When we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it’s tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.
I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone – terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).
If you have not yet seen вЂSue Thomas; F.B.Eye’…В you are in for an unbelievable treat.
I’m not interested in ‘abstracting’ or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it – drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.
Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn’t it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him, and struggle with all our might against death without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?
Paco Fuentes, ” Mrs. Peterson says, pointing to the table behind Mary. The handsome young man with pale blue eyes like his mother’s and smoky black hair like his father’s takes his assigned seat.
Criticism is not religion, and by no process can it be substituted for it. It is not the critic’s eye, but the child’s heart, that most truly discerns the countenance that looks out from the pages of the gospel.
She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love and thought and joy.
Life is fleeting. And if you’re ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day… make a wish and think of me.
Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace things; hidden and yet burning and glowing continually if you care to look with purged eyes.
It hurt her eyes, almost, Ror City; and it didn’t surprise her that Po should come from a place that shone.
You are mine-you know you’re mine!” he cried wildly…the moonlight twisted in through the vines and listened…the fireflies hung upon their whispers as if to win his glance from the glory of their eyes.
Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There’s time enough.Behold, in the lout’s eye, love.
The first autonomous cars date back to the late 20th century. But recent increases in sophistication and reductions in cost – reflected, for example, in cheap LIDAR systems, which can ‘see’ a street in 3D in a way similar to that of the human eye – are now bringing autonomous cars closer to the market.
Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.
Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
I’ve never been able to understand how risk-averse my mum is. She hated conkers, pea shooters, and anything that could have someone’s eye out: skipping, swinging on your chair, talking with your mouth full.
Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?
And as I stood there in the hallway―alone―trying to understand what had just happened and why, I realized the truth: I wasn’t worth an explanation―not even a reaction. Not in your eyes.
Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams, Lover of loneliness, and wandering, Of upcast eye, and tender pondering! Thee must I praise above all other glories That smile us on to tell delightful stories.
There’s an exercise we do where someone is sat behind you and you’re asked to close your eyes and fall backwards. That’s acting.
That memory made a lump form in my throat as I remembered his face, serious and gorgeous, those brown eyes intense and passionate as he spoke up for me and convinced the others of my value.
I am nothing if not gracious,” Will said. His eyes searched Jem’s face, that face as familiar to him as his own. “And determined. You will not leave me. Not while I live.
The eye is made to see and not to think…. A good photograph is a surprise. How could we plan and foresee a surprise? We just have to be ready.
We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.
Day and night I always dream with open eyes.” – JosГ© MartГ
Once we recognize the fact that every individual is a treasury of hidden and unsuspected qualities, our lives become richer, our judgement better, and our world is more right. It is not love that is blind, it is only the unnoticing eye that cannot see the real qualities of people.
It’s all fun and games ’till someone loses an eye, then it’s just fun you can’t see.
There is a wonderful place
where flowers grow in colors
beyond the words of poets…
trees sing with the
songs of butterflies.
And mythical tigresses look
at you with fiery golden eyes…
open your heart
and feel the colors of magic
blooming inside you.
where flowers grow in colors
beyond the words of poets…
trees sing with the
songs of butterflies.
And mythical tigresses look
at you with fiery golden eyes…
open your heart
and feel the colors of magic
blooming inside you.
Remember: sin, even if legalized by man, is still sin in the eyes of God.
There once was an umpire whose vision Was cause for abuse and derision He remarked in surprise, ‘Why pick on my eyes? It’s my heart that dictates my decision.’
Southern women can say more with a cut of their eyes than a whole debate club’s worth of speeches.
Even when a person is frightened by threats into doing something, the threats work only because the person has an instinct of fear. If he has not, or if, though having it, it is under his own control, the threat has no more influence upon him than light has in causing a person to see who has no eyes.
It is to Titian we must turn our eyes to find excellence with regard to color, and light and shade, in the highest degree. He was both the first and the greatest master of this art. By a few strokes he knew how to mark the general image and character of whatever object he attempted.
Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.
By all means,” cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. “A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates!” “There’s not much of it left to storm,” said Eilonwy. “Oh?” said Fflewddur, with disappointment. “Very well, we shall do the best we can.
I have a worm’s eye view and a bird’s eye view simultaneously and it’s immensely helpful to understand what is happening on the shop floor when you are harnessing many talents and telling an intimate story on a large scale.
I don’t like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked.
Romeo was cute …” “Cute?” Alessandro rolled his eyes. “What kind of man is cute?” “… and an excellent dancer …” “Romeo had feet of lead! He said so himself!” “… but most importantly,” I concluded, “he had nice hands!
I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.
Today, we can see with our own eyes what global warming is doing. In that context it becomes truly irresponsible, if not immoral, for us not to do something.
I took a closer look. Jesus had piercing blue eyes, dark hair that hung in a flawless mess, his body was emaciated and taut, his hands and feet dripped with blood, and nothing but a gauzy loincloth hid what looked like a nice package underneath. “Sexy,” I said. “He looks like a rock star.
Either it brings tears to their eyes, or else -” “Or else what?” said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause. “Or else it doesn’t, you know.
I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005, 2006, 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to speak.
Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes with which Christ looks out his compassion to the world. Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now.
The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids.
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious To have mistrusted her.
Did you ever see a one eyed woman cry? You know the saddest thing about the woman, the tears don’t come out just one eye.
Suffering is to the heart and soul as tears are to the eyes, cleansing and expelling toxicity from the inner system. When we do not allow ourselves to feel appropriate pain, we move into a sort of non-experience. We watch life rather than live it; we look but never get too close.
While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.
Trade protection accumulates upon a single point the good which it effects, while the evil inflicted is infused throughout the mass. The one strikes the eye at a first glance, while the other becomes perceptible only to close investigation.
The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.
She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small sterious world of the ground. In the shade and sun of grass blade forests, small living things had their metropolis.
Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.
If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.
How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the times, and among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and decide on their premises?
Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.
When I look into the eyes of my Prince, and my daughter Paris, I see miracles and I see beauty.
For a small moment, I fix my eyes on his, telling him silently everything that I’ll never say to him aloud.
If you truly want to succeed, you have to stay humble – humble or crumble – because it can all go away in the blink of an eye.
For all my love little monsters i am your mom you are my child in my hand i protect you like my eyes but dont worry ill cacth you if you fall.
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
Making something new to look at is a futile and empty act if its only audience is the eyes.
The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.
You asked why the rate hate Overlanders so deeply. It is because they know one will be the warrior of the prophecy,” said Vikus. “Oh, I see,” said Gregor. “So, when’s he coming?” Vikus fixed his eyes on Gregor. “I believe he is already here.
One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.
And now – Plato’s words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: ‘…the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.
Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.
I knew there was a reason I didnt turn you into a banana slug.” Leonid’d eyes widened. “No banana slug! Please!” “It was a compliement, silly. Forbidden is good! Sadie likes forbidden!
I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is everywhere.
And you who sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness of spirit which comes from age, more black than the blindness of eye, making a darkness about you across which nothing may be seen, or felt, or known, or in any way apprehended.
Mr. Bear, you know in the eyes of the Lord, we’re both beasts.
Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows’ feet gathering around her eyes.
Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.
Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.
[Koudelka] looked back, “You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!” [Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, “Yes, it’s how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.
The life of woman is full of woe,
Toiling on and on and on,
With breaking heart, and tearful eyes,
The secret longings that arise,
Which this world never satisfies!
Some more, some less, but of the whole
Not one quite happy, no, not one!
Toiling on and on and on,
With breaking heart, and tearful eyes,
The secret longings that arise,
Which this world never satisfies!
Some more, some less, but of the whole
Not one quite happy, no, not one!
No one can ever see the ball hit the bat because it’s physically impossible to focus your eyes that way. However, when I hit the ball especially hard, I could smell the leather start to burn as it struck the wooden bat.
It doesn’t matter if the truth is right there out in front of your eyes. You will find a way, a mechanism, in order to keep your own system of denial. So as I always say it, denial is a river that runs in the – in Egypt. So we became very good in that.
My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables, It don’t have nothing to do with your new friend
Tear to a glass eye. Tear to a glass eye.
Her eyes met his, but she looked quickly away; entangling gazes with Will was confusing at best, dizzying at worst.
The tears I gratified him with were fake ones. Ones that set off my green eyes the way diamonds set off emeralds. And it worked. If you dazzled a man with green eyes, he will be so hypnotized that he won’t notice there is someone inside the eyes spying on him. – Vida Winters Page 268
A lot of me figuring out how to love myself more involves finding the things that I’m ashamed of and looking them right in the eye.
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.
Even those with unspendable fortunes only have one mind, one mouth, two ears, two eyes and one pleasure station. There’s only so much fun you can take.
Cam stepped into the clearing. His eyes were rimmed with a thick, shimmering gold shadow, and it shone on his face in the moonlight, making him look like a wildcat.
If I was an owl, I would peck your eyes out. Wow this lyric is ****ing brilliant.
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
Power is God’s hand or arm, omniscience is God’s eye, mercy is God’s delight, eternity is God’s duration, but holiness is God’s beauty!
The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.
What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they’re doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, ‘I care about you. We can do this together.’
The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.
Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes.
When I was young, all the politicians looked like ancient Latin teachers or greengrocers. They were mumbly, stumbly men with their hair blowing in their eyes, walking into trees, opening the wrong door. They had no idea how to present themselves.
I got older – 16, 17 – I was like, “I want to do my own thing.” I wasn’t seeing eye to eye with my parents. It wasn’t what they wanted for me.
Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.
that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.
Those deep hazel eyes held his and didn’t blink. “You’d be amazed what I would do to keep you alive.” Abruptly, V’s mouth opened, his breath growing tight. And as the two of them stood chest-to-chest, he knew every inch of his body, felt it all at once.
I can’t imagine having a real personal thing, like divorce and marriage, all those things, being in the public eye. I try to not talk about anything personal, and then nobody has the fire to throw back at you, like ‘You said this back then!’
On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
I feel like I swallowed a Magritte. Like on the inside, I’m made of clouds and floating eyes, green apples, and slowly rising men in bowler hats.
Ready to put your claws where your mouth is, or are you going to cringe behind the big boys and yip all day?” His eyes flared yellow “Is that a challenge?” “Yes it is.
I remember to breathe throughout the day. I remind myself that I can choose peace, no matter what is going on around me. Whenever I desire, I can retreat to that quiet place within simply by closing my eyes.
What is the purpose of life?…To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!
I wish I could see outta two eyes.
When you told me you loved me,” Lily’s eyes widened when she looked at Lux, “You saved the world.
As a child I watched Mary Poppins so many times I suffered from a condition with my sight. Umdiddleiddleiddleumdiddle Eye.
when you’re so happy that you have to close your eyes when you smile so that your eyes don’t jump out of your head
Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
Before I was even in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes. Rumor was that I was a junkie. I have dark circles under my eyes, deal with it.
When I was working with Stanley Kubrick [on “Eyes Wide Shut”], he would always say, “You never tell the audience what to feel. Let them choose to have their responses.”
The curve of your eyes goes around my heart, A round of dance and sweetness, Halo of time, nocturnal and safe cradle, And if I don’t know any more all that I’ve lived through It’s because I haven’t always been seen by you.
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
I don’t think the audience goes and thinks of the movie as a piece of art – there are some independent people who may go and have a higher appreciation for filmmaking. It is a great art form, but I don’t think you look at a painting and a movie with the same eye.
And the moon never beams Without bringing me dreams And the sun never shines But I see the bright eyes I lie down by the side Of my darling My life, my life.
I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice – she taught me that women like to be looked in the eye – and my grandmother gave me condoms.
He was still dazed, and though she hated to admit it, he was actually rather attractive. If a girl happened to like that square-jaw, bright-blue-eyes, devilish-dimples kind of thing. Although he was in desperate need of a haircut and a good shave.
Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new.
We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.
The next time someone says “This sounds great, but I just don’t have the TIME…” Look them straight in the eye, smile warmly, and ask, “Would you like to change that?”
Until White America can look through the eyes of a Black man, nothing will change. Even we as Black people sometimes don’t want to face what’s going on within our communities because some of us crossed over into a different tax bracket, but these issues affect the communities that raised us, so it affects us all.
How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.
Sometimes I would like to cry. I close my eyes. Why weren’t we designed so that we can close our ears as well? (Perhaps because we would never open them.) Is there some way that I could accelerate my evolution and develop earlids?
I raised my hands, trying to shush her. “Don’t shush me,” she said, eyes blazing. “I hate being shushed.
What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It’s a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.
Cat’s eyes seem a bridge to a world beyond the one we know.
The most callous, stupid things were done just because regulations required them…It was not until 1983, for example, that U.S. federal agencies stated that substances known to be caustic irritants such as lye, ammonia, and oven cleaners, did not need to be tested on the eyes of conscious rabbits.
I guess the argument is you chose to be in the public eye and, therefore, you’re giving your life up for a certain level of scrutiny and you’ve got to accept that. The trade-off between being on ‘Love Island’ and not being on ‘Love Island’ is very skewed into the positive.
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.
It is better to look suffering straight in the eye, acknowledge and respect it’s presence, and then get busy as soon as possible focusing on things we choose to focus on.
Every eye is an eye, when you’re doing the surgery there that is just as important as if you were doing eye surgery on the prime minster or the king.
The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth.
I think Oprah’s [winfrey] learned from me that it’s OK to be harsh on people because in one’s harshness you can see transformation happen right before your very eyes.
The Brother’s eyes narrowed. “But here’s something to keep in mind. You ever hurt him on purpose and I will consider you my enemy.
What’s “God”? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God’s the guy that ignores you.
Your car goes where your eyes go. Lonliness is unable to survive without a willing host.
Take that veil from off of your eyes, look into the future of realize.
Israel’s willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington.
When most I wink, then do my eyes best see
My ideal guy is my future husband. Not sure who he is yet, but he’s out there. What impresses me in a gay guy? A warm smile, stubble, easy to talk to, thoughtful tattoos, kind eyes, wit, positivity, wanderlust, ambition, and a cute ass.
Harry ran upstairs to their dark dormitory. He pulled out the cloak and then his eyes fell on the flute Hagrid had given him for Christmas. He pocketed it to use on Fluffy — he didn’t feel much like singing.
He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320
The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he’s less of a man. That’s just a condition of society that such things exist.
The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.
We cannot always judge man for only one part of his attitude. If we did so, we would be like the Pharisees in whose eyes Jesus was seen as bad, because He did not respect their rules about the Sabbath. They closed their eyes entirely to what would have lovable in Jesus, even in their sight.
We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody’s eyes, you’re looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self.
Gandhi was right: if we all live by ‘an eye for an eye’ the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness.
Play your heart out each game, so you can look your teammates in the eyes and ask, without saying it, ‘I played full out, did you?’
The coward, afraid of the lash, with one hand wipes his eyes and gives with the other. Of what avail are such gifts?
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. But in fact they were paying very close attention, like cats that, keeping their eyes closed as if asleep, are actually counting the stars.
You can’t look at someone with your eyes and take their measure. You have to look with the heart.
In talking about a genius, you would not say that he lies; he sees realities with different eyes from ours.
[Dario Argento] would yell at you in Italian, and I’d have no idea what he was saying. I’d just go, “Okay!”. But it was a really great experience [filming Two Evil Eyes ].
You’ll notice my eyes have sort of glazed over.
I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what’s going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person, and I fail.
Al Davis is the kind of guy who would steal your eyes and then try to convince you that you looked better without them
And his eyes frighten me, too. They’re the eyes of an old man, an old man who’s seen so much in life that he no longer cares to go on living. They’re not even desperate… just quiet and expectant, and very, very lonely, as if he were quite alone of his own free choice.
I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.
Light is everything in the world to men’s eyes Light thirsts after light yes, the soul, twin to the stars moves through space to find, be made eternal by light and grasp, trembling, the sun a torch handed on from runner to runner through the millennia.
The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.
I’m giving you a free shot at my blood and you’re playing hard to get? What kind of vampire are you?” When Wraith just stood there, Kynan rolled his eyes. “Oh, come on. My blood’s eighty proof. You want it. You know you do.
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?
My kids are my No. 1 priority. Theyre the light in my everyday life. The sunshine. The miracle. Those eyes. Those smiles. At the same time, I have an extended, amazing family that is my audience. All these people have been with me for such a long time. I have these two responsibilities.
People vary enormously in how they learn. Some learn through their eyes – by reading but also by responding to all kinds of visual information. Others learn mostly through their ears or touch or other senses.
Important safety tip – never look a vampire in the eye.
While the 2013 color of the year, PANTONE 17-5641 Emerald, served as a symbol of growth, renewal and prosperity, Radiant Orchid reaches across the color wheel to intrigue the eye and spark the imagination.
Empathy is about standing in someone else’s shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.
Every person you look at, you can see the universe in their eyes, if you’re really looking
If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies.
When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
Time goes by so slowly when you’re a child, and then, as an adult, it goes by in the blink of an eye.
Solitude stands by the window
She turns her head as I walk in the room
I can see by her eyes she’s been waiting
Standing in the slant of the late afternoon
She turns her head as I walk in the room
I can see by her eyes she’s been waiting
Standing in the slant of the late afternoon
My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.
You’ll hate me,” she said, her arms locked around him because she couldn’t not hold him when he was close. “One day, you’ll hate me.” It was the thing she most feared. Hand fisting in her hair, he pressed his forehead to her own, his eyes night-glow in the dark. “I will love you until the day they put me in the earth.
Brock Lesnar is not here to put smiles on people’s faces. Brock Lesnar is here to shock the WWE Universe and put TEARS in the EYES of CHILDREN!
The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.
At this moment, is there anything lacking? Nirvana is right here now before our eyes. This place is the lotus land. This body now is the Buddha.
Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin WHERE YOU ARE.
When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face
You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.
I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.
When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I’ll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.
And Derek was… what? A pair of dark eyes that hid more than they revealed and some broad shoulders and a mouth that could be cold and thin and then suddenly widen into a generous grin just when you thought such a thing was impossible.
Like someone once said, “If you’re going to play the part, you better wear the eye patch.” You need to perform the function, you know.
In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.
If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life.
I always try to see things with children’s eyes. Are they happy? Sad? What do they need? Everywhere I went, I realized that children are society’s victims … We have a duty to speak to political leaders, to influence people to give these children a better future.
Bluebell, you couldn’t take me if I was blindfolded and had both hands tied behind my back.” “Bluebell?” Illium narrowed his eyes. “That’s it, Barbarian.
There are moments when suddenly our eyes blink open and we recapture the excitement of living. Life becomes an adventure and we, adventurers.
I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.
A thousand laughing suns are in your eyes. A thousand crying stars in mine.
Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning.
We are one…alone…and only…and we love you who are one…alone…and only. We looked into each other’s eyes and we knew the breath of a miracle had touched us, and fled, and left us groping vainly. And we felt torn, torn for some word we could not find.
Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books.
