Quotes about eye
eye portraits truthful
He [William Merritt Chase] is, I suspect, getting a very truthful likeness. I would like it better if [it] was not so gray, so cramped about the eyes, and not quite so corpulent. But is this not quarreling with nature? Rutherford B. Hayes
eye blue looks
I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss. Rutger Hauer
eye reflection makeup
My breathing slowed. I shaded her thick chestnut hair resting in a smooth curve against her face, a large bruise blazing across her cheek. I paused, looking over my shoulder to make certain I was alone. I drew her eye makeup, smudged by tears. In her watery eyes I drew the reflection of the commander, standing in front of her, his fist clenched. I continued to sketch, exhaled, and shook out my hands. Ruta Sepetys
eye racism minorities
Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power. Ruth Benedict
eye men thinking
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. Ruth Benedict
eye loss careers
When I first came round in the medical center after my accident, the first face I saw was Ayrton's, with tears in his eyes. I had never seen that with Ayrton before. I just had the impression that he felt as if my accident was like one of his own. He helped me a lot with my career and I can't find the words to describe his loss. Rubens Barrichello
eye world objects
The least touchable object in the world is the eye. Rudolf Arnheim
eye science feet
All sciences are connected; they lend each other material aid as parts of one great whole, each doing its own work, not for itself alone, but for the other parts; as the eye guides the body and the foot sustains it and leads it from place to place. Roger Bacon
eye men servant-of-god
Men are in the habit, when the truth is exhibited by the servants of God, of saying, All is mystery; they have spoken in parables, and, therefore, are not to be understood. It is true they have eyes to see, and see not, but none are so blind as those who will not see. Sam Smith
eye golf years
Over the years I've studied the habits of golfers. I know what to look for. Watch their eyes. Fear shows up when there is an enlargement of the pupils. Big pupils lead to big scores. Sam Snead
eye preparation storm
The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches. Russel Honore
eye people leader
The question is gonna be, what is the pope doing? For whom is the pope doing it, if the pope is doing it for anybody? But that's gonna be what it boils down to: What is the pope doing here? Why? And I'll tell you this. The more establishment figures - and the pope qualifies as an institutional leader, and therefore the pope would qualify in many people's eyes as an establishment figure, particularly this pope, who has not hidden his ideological alignment, much less his political alignment. Rush Limbaugh
eye united-states national-security
United States foreign policy, which includes national security, is literally disintegrating before our eyes. Rush Limbaugh
eye sea firsts
Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life? Thomas Mann
eye jewels wonderful
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature! Thomas Mann
eye men two
Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pent-up curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect. Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge. Thomas Mann
eye vision might
It might be good to open our eyes and see. Thomas Merton
eye thinking giving
We must suffer. Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and more. Penance clears the eye of conscience and of reason. It helps think clearly, judge sanely. It strengthens the action of our will. Thomas Merton
eye may might
The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence. Zen suggests that we may be driving toward one or the other on a cosmic scale. Driving toward them because, one way or the other, as madmen or innocents, we are already there. It might be good to open our eyes and see. Thomas Merton
eye talent reverence
The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it. Thomas Carlyle
eye way world
Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars! Thomas Carlyle
eye men worship
Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon. Thomas Carlyle
eye wonderful vulgar
To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant Thomas Carlyle
eye mean yellow
To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow. Thomas Carlyle
eye responsibility men
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you. Thomas Carlyle
eye knowledge power
The eye sees what it brings the power to see. Thomas Carlyle
eye littles before-and-after
Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes. Thomas Carlyle
eye tears behinds
Eyes bright, with many tears, behind them. Thomas Carlyle
eye two individuality
Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own. Thomas Carlyle
eye enthusiasm pairs
The person who cannot wonder is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye. Thomas Carlyle
eye two pairs
No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes. Thomas Carlyle
eye corporations cost
It doesn't cost anything to say hi when you pass someone else in the hallway, whereas, most corporations if you pass you avoid eye contact. Tony Hsieh
eye justice doe
Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye? Tony Kushner