Related Quotes
All quotes about:
eye exercise cry
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. Charles Dickens
eye home dark
Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.
eye numbers envy
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. Charles Caleb Colton
eye men thinking
I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.
eye hands evil
But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless.
eye hypocrisy shining
[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
eye mad black
An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror.
eye light skins
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.
eye thoughtful great-expectations
She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
imperfect-things light opinion
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing. Ben Jonson
imperfect-things matter free-press
No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable. Tom Stoppard
imperfect-things imperfect rich
A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing Jhumpa Lahiri
imperfect-things economics foresight
Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect. John Kenneth Galbraith
imperfect-things perfection way
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them. Owen Feltham
joy missionary given
My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it. Charles Studd
joy today christ
Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy down here today. Charles Spurgeon
joy sorrow sin
That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable.
joy challenges pure
Challenge your limitations for the pure joy of challenge. Chin-Ning Chu
joy solitude taste
She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company. Edith Wharton
joy heaven lasts
Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last. William Shakespeare
joy christianity ifs
If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere Billy Sunday
joy nightmare
What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other. Bertolt Brecht
joy ends savour
If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh. Bertrand Russell