When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
~By Stephen Vizinczey ~
In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.
~By Adelbert von Chamisso ~
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.
~By Guru Nanak ~
My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.
~By Raoul Dufy ~
When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.
~By Constantin Brancusi ~
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
~By Ellen DeGeneres ~
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 ~
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
~By Thorstein Veblen ~
Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.
~By John Mason Brown ~
Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.
~By Michael Berryman ~
At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginning of my real education.
~By Paul Hoffman ~
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
~By Phyllis Diller ~
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
~By Sally Field ~
This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.
~By Carly Fiorina ~
We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.
~By Krzysztof Kieslowski ~
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 ~
When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
~By Barbara Sher ~
And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
~By James Joyce ~
I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
~By Saint Patrick ~
Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.
~By Len Wein ~
But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked.
~By Michael Behe ~
Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.
~By Lara St. John ~
There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.
~By M. Night Shyamalan ~
My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes.
~By Douglas Trumbull ~
We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.
~By Henry Lawson ~
I will know him by his eyes.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
~By Billy Graham ~
I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
~By Sally Field ~
I didn't know who was on the team, but I saw every eye as I walked down the aisle. It looked like a thousand eyes were staring right at me saying, 'Who is this young punk?' I just kept my eyes straight ahead.
~By Al Kaline ~
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.
~By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge ~
Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part.
~By Jeffrey Wright ~
As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
I am very grateful to God everyday that my eyes flutter open and I can jump out of that bed!
~By Jerry Reed ~
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 ~
Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
~By Ray Bradbury ~
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 ~
I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.
~By Kieran Culkin ~
But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.
~By Ellen Wilkinson ~
You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters' eyes sometime between now and November, thereby restoring the proper version of Democracy to the House and Senate. I won't say that, of course. The simple reason is, I don't know.
~By Gwen Ifill ~
One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.
~By John Galsworthy ~
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 ~
The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is the end of society in their eyes.
~By Seymour Hersh ~
All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.
~By William Albert Allard ~
One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully.
~By Alison Bechdel ~
After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.
~By Albert Hofmann ~
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 ~
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.
~By Yitzhak Rabin ~
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
~By Warren G. Bennis ~
I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.
~By Aleksandr I. Kuprin ~
For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.
~By Shmuel Y. Agnon ~
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
~By Amos Bronson Alcott ~
Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
~By Albert Einstein ~
All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
~By Evelyn Underhill ~
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 ~
I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.
~By Allan Dwan ~
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 ~
But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
~By Robert Browning ~
I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what's on the inside edge of the transparent one.
~By Ben Crenshaw ~
When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast.
~By Jane Byrne ~
By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.
~By Esther Williams ~
So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.
~By Roberta Flack ~
I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.
~By Alfred Eisenstaedt ~
I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
~By Lucille Ball ~
I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.
~By Karen Duffy ~
Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.
~By Georg Buchner ~
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
~By Otto von Bismarck ~
You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you.
~By James Caan ~
I'm one of the few people who really like Eyes Wide Shut.
~By Alex Winter ~
The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
~By Desmond Tutu ~
I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.
~By Christine Baranski ~
Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.
~By Gene Tierney ~
Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
~By Leon Edel ~
I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
~By Jean Genet ~
War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.
~By Charles Mackay ~
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
~By Stevie Wonder ~
Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.
~By Henry Hampton ~
I watch what I eat every day. I mean, who actually eats with their eyes closed?
~By Brian Celio ~
It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say.
~By Arthur Herzog ~
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
~By Daniel Defoe ~
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 ~
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 ~
If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.
~By Alice Meynell ~
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification.
~By Richard Wall ~
The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.
~By Ian Holm ~
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.
~By Richard Bach ~
Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over.
~By Jeff Buckley ~
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
~By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ~
The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.
~By Herodotus ~
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.
~By Ziggy Marley ~
There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
~By Auguste Rodin ~
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 ~
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
I'm fighting the label of "Black" actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.
~By Whoopi Goldberg ~
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