Quotes about eye
eye aerospace want
I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die. William Hurt
eye night voice
And kind the voice and glad the eyes That welcome my return at night. William C. Bryant
eye imagination mind
The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain to the mind's eye than any face But that of Christ. William Butler Yeats
eye silence mind
For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?
eye roaring needles
All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye....
eye judging
Eyes spiritualised by death can judge, I cannot, but I am not content.
eye wind hair
The winds awaken, the leaves whirl round, Our cheeks are pale, our hair is unbound, Our breasts are heaving, our eyes are agleam, Our arms are waving, our lips are apart....
eye dark vanity
If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made.
eye thinking voice
THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends the most: Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.
eye play age
The hare grows old as she plays in the sun And gazes around her with eyes of brightness; Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done She limps along in an aged whiteness....
eye pearls rolling
I would that I were an old beggar Rolling a blind pearl eye, For he cannot see my lady Go gallivanting by.
eye feet fire
Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high, And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher, Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.
eye kissing laughing
Ah, let us kiss each other's eyes,/And laugh our love away.
eye hands editors
The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet at the top of a chair, His chair-arm an elbow supporting, his right hand upholding his head, His eyes on his dusty old table, with different documents spread. Will Carleton
eye two design
The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform. Wilhelm von Humboldt
eye light world
There is no violent surface indication of the ecstasy which great thinkers alone enjoy. There is nothing dramatic about it, but there is some subtle light in the eye of the inspired one, or some even more subtle quiet emanation which surrounds the inspired thinker, which tells you that you are in the presence of one who has bridged the gap which separates the mundane world from the world of spirit. Walter Russell
eye men snow
Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand. Walter Savage Landor
eye criticism sides
The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
eye heart hands
Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die. Walter Scott
eye exercise ideas
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
eye heart looks
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
eye heart rocks
See yonder rock from which the fountain gushes; is it less compact of adamant, though waters flow from it? Firm hearts have moister eyes.
eye fighting men
Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!
eye looks tradition
By instinct and tradition, I don't like the thing. I like to look someone in the eye. Walter F. Mondale
eye waiting election
We will keep a close eye on what is happening and wait for the election results and after that we will be ready to work with any Administration given that it wants to work with us. Vladimir Putin
eye small-rooms broken
Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the whole, a pattern where the structure is large and the details much broken up is the most useful...very small rooms, as well as very large ones, look better ornamented with large patterns. William Morris
eye israel interest
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. Yitzhak Rabin
eye dark night
Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to be rising from below. There was a sharp, unbearable smell of birds, of cod, of green decaying seaweed. Through the mist the huge ruddy sun loomed nearer and nearer. And in the sea, dark blood welled up to meet it - in bloated, rearing, huge white waves. Night. The mouth of the bay between two cliffs was like a window. A window shutting out curious eyes with a white shade-white woolly fog. And all that you could see was that behind it something red was happening. (The North) Yevgeny Zamyatin
eye cutting healthy
I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn't it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness?
eye effort joy
Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box. Winston Churchill
eye looks censorship
The press is easier to strangle than to look in the eyes.
eye games two
The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.
eye ideas judgement
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.