Beholder Quotes

• A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

  Stephen King

  Children, Growing Up, Eye

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• I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Eye, Insanity, Enlightenment

  "A chat about the novel 'Fight Club'". www.cnn.com. October 27, 1999.

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• Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has been constructed with the arts enjoying a totalitarian rule.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Art, Night, Subjectivity

  Ravi Zacharias (2004). “Can Man Live Without God”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A minister of Jesus Christ should not be regardless of his attitude. If he is the representative of Jesus Christ, his deportment, his attitude, his gestures, should be of that character which will not strike the beholder with disgust.

  Ellen G. White

  Jesus, Attitude, Character

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• Hate speech is in the ear of the beholder.

  Mark Potok

  Hate, Ears, Speech

  "When Christians become a 'hated minority'" by John Blake, religion.blogs.cnn.com. May 5, 2013.

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• An eye for beauty locks onto faces that show signs of health and fertility - just as one would predict if it had evolved to help the beholder find the fittest mate.

  Steven Pinker

  Eye, Locks, Fertility

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.85, Penguin

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• The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Cheer, Growing Up, Sacrifice

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You know, if Kelly Clarkson wants to do country albums because that’s what inspires her, then let her do it. Look at Kanye West or Ludacris ... they aren’t rappin’ and cussin’ like they were on their first few albums, so what does that make them? It’s all in the eye of the beholder and the listener. We all use our outlet to grow ourself.

  Luke Bryan

  Country, Eye, Inspire

  "Luke Bryan Laughs Off Country Music Stereotypes, Talks Growing Popularity Of Genre". Interview with Kari Friedlander, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2013.

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• Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

  Noel Gallagher

  Ears, Great Music, Music Is

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• It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Eye, Matter, Taste

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• Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

  Plato

  Lying, Eye, Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder

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• People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

  Salma Hayek

  Inspirational, Beauty, Love Yourself

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• Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.

  Alfred Sisley

  Artist, Crafts, Should

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• Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Beauty, Truth, Work

  Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull (1969). “The Peter Principle”

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• Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that's because I see myself with my face washed, and to me I look like a rabbit.

  Gwen Verdon

  Dance, Sexy, Eye

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder.

  Michelle Sagara

  Eye, Beauty Inside And, Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Cast in Shadow”, p.215, MIRA

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• A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Nature, Eye

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.35, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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• Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Encouraging, Witty, Eye

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• When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.

  Ashley Judd

  Character, Eye, Doors

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• Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

  Len Wein

  Art, Mistake, Eye

  Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder.

  Gwen Verdon

  Dance, Sex, Eye

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.

  Spike Milligan

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Spike Milligan (1993). “Hidden Words: Collected Poems”

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• Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Perspective, Bias

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• Faith is in the eye of the beholder.

  Tilda Swinton

  Faith, Eye, Eye Of The Beholder

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