Eye Quotes - Page 10

• Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not

  Plato

  Giving, Conversion, Right Direction

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.352

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• Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Fall, Hero

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 87

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• A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

  Carolyn Wells

  Men, Mind, Looks

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• My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Ideas, Cameras

  "Pictures on a page: photojournalism and picture editing" by Harold Evans, Edwin Taylor, (p. 75), 1978.

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• Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

  Bret Harte

  Patience, Tears, Dry

  Bret Harte (1872). “Prose and Poetry”, p.305

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• If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Country, Greatness, Self

  "Congressional Record, V. 150, PT. 13, July 22, 2004 to September 14, 2004". Book published by Government Printing Office, p. 18022, 2009.

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• There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Dream, Mind, Television

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.32, Grove Press

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• A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.

  Stendhal

  Mirrors, Blue, Sky

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• I've never put myself in the mindset that I'm actually any good at taking pictures, I just love to shoot things that catch my eye, whether it's landscapes or just my kids.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Kids, Landscape, Taking Pictures

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• I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Stars, Light

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.112

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• What goes down on film is different to what you see with the naked eye.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Different, Naked, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Love, Heart, Looks

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.34

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• Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

  Marya Mannes

  Money, Desire, Female

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

  Margaret Barber

  Inspirational, Life, Memories

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• As no darkness can be seen by anyone surrounded by light, so no trivialities can capture the attention of anyone who has his eyes on Christ.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Light, Darkness, Attention

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• Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Romantic, Wine

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.70, Library of Alexandria

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• Devil does not bring sinners to Hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. He thus leads them to eternal perdition. Before we fall into sin, the enemy labours to blind us, that we may not see the evil we do, and the ruin we bring upon ourselves by offending God. After we commit sin, he seeks to make us dumb, that, through shame, we may conceal our guilt in confession.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Fall, Offending, Evil

  "Sermons of St. Alphonsus Liguori: For All the Sundays of the Year".

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• You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Happiness, Giving, Ridiculous

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.65, Random House

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• It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Block, Ignorance

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

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• We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953”

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• Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-' The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective is a lie. If I know a pond is round then why should I draw it oval? I will draw it round because round is true. Why should my brush lie to you just because my eye lies to me?

  Terry Pratchett

  Lying, Ideas, Interesting

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• When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei [the voice of the people is the voice of God], as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science.

  Charles Darwin

  Voice, People, Common Sense

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• I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.

  Roy Orbison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Romantic

  Song: In Dreams

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• He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

  Charles Dickens

  Running, Two, Pockets

  "Nicholas Nickleby".

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• Eyes of gentianellas azure,
  Staring, winking at the skies.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sky, Azure, Winking

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1872). “A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.11

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