It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.
~By Philip Stanhope ~
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
~By J. D. Salinger ~
One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.
~By John Galsworthy ~
I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
~By Saint Patrick ~
If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.
~By Sophia Loren ~
But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.
~By Felix Bloch ~
Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.
~By Eugenio Montale ~
The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open.
~By Donald Berwick ~
I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.
~By Aleksandr I. Kuprin ~
In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes.
~By Simon Newcomb ~
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
~By Plato ~
I watch what I eat every day. I mean, who actually eats with their eyes closed?
~By Brian Celio ~
I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.
~By Laurence Olivier ~
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice your bum or your waist or your feet, for that matter.
~By Cat Deeley ~
Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.
~By Antonio Vieira ~
I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
~By Bram Stoker ~
I can make a scene that's not supposed to be sexy, very sexy. It's a power you're born with. It's not a physical thing, it comes from inside. It's all in the eyes.
~By Tara Reid ~
Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.
~By Manfred von Richthofen ~
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
My big sister Melissa, is such a stud and my little sister Suzanna, has always had a perfect body and big blue eyes. We were a force.
~By Jennifer Garner ~
An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.
~By Russell Hoban ~
The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired.
~By Colleen Atwood ~
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
~By Balthus ~
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.
~By Christina G. Rossetti ~
I keep my eyes clear and I hit 'em where they ain't.
~By Willie Keeler ~
A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.
~By Paul Eluard ~
That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.
~By Johnny Mercer ~
We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you've really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years.
~By Trisha Goddard ~
In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.
~By Dwight Schultz ~
A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition.
~By Howard Fineman ~
The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
~By Malcolm De Chazal ~
Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.
~By William C. Bryant ~
What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.
~By Eileen Caddy ~
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
~By Ovid ~
It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured, but at the same time too - in the eyes of the American people, in my judgment, it looked as if that somehow become more important than the main attack which was to fix the economy and get the Americans working again.
~By Colin Powell ~
Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.
~By William Shatner ~
It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
~By Walker Evans ~
I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.
~By George Weah ~
Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him.
~By Lucy Liu ~
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
~By Willa Cather ~
Night hath a thousand eyes.
~By John Lyly ~
The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.
~By Herodotus ~
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
~By Swami Vivekananda ~
In Hitchcock's eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with.
~By Bruce Dern ~
I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
~By Pope John XXIII ~
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
~By Clare Boothe Luce ~
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
~By Terry Pratchett ~
I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.
~By Conor Oberst ~
The pleasant surprise for me is that when I look into Tony's eyes, he's still 100% present, sharing everything that's going on. Acting with him is like a beautiful dance.
~By Genie Francis ~
I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.
~By Camille Claudel ~
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas.
~By Robert Ryan ~
A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes.
~By Roy H. Williams ~
It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.
~By Charles Dance ~
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes.
~By Douglas Trumbull ~
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
~By Ada Cambridge ~
You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open.
~By Jam Master Jay ~
We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.
~By Jules Verne ~
All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.
~By William Albert Allard ~
I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
~By Gary Coleman ~
The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown.
~By Giraldus Cambrensis ~
Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.
~By Wim Wenders ~
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
~By Thomas Gray ~
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
~By Mark Twain ~
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?
~By Elias Canetti ~
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
~By Saint Augustine ~
There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either.
~By Phillip Noyce ~
My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
~By Kate Smith ~
When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good.
~By John Pomfret ~
Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.
~By Maureen O'Hara ~
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
~By William Shakespeare ~
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
~By Mary McCarthy ~
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
~By Albert Einstein ~
We were led to a pediatric ophthalmologist. It's a hard date for me, April 14, 1998. The doctor came back from the examining room and told us she had tumors in both eyes.
~By Hunter Tylo ~
It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.
~By Lance Loud ~
Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
~By Babe Ruth ~
Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.
~By William Alexander Henry ~
My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.
~By Brett Hull ~
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
~By William Wycherley ~
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
No sight that human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered thick with stars.
~By Llewelyn Powys ~
People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.
~By David Chalmers ~
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.
~By Madeleine Stowe ~
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
~By Aristophanes ~
I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.
~By Grandma Moses ~
Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.
~By Rudolf Otto ~
For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.
~By Shmuel Y. Agnon ~
I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.
~By Sergio Leone ~
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