Eye Quotes - Page 18

• The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes- all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults. It both sustains and kills- like a God. It is the Ordinary made beautiful; it is also the Average made leathal. The Normal is the indispensable, murderous God of Health.

  Peter Shaffer

  Beautiful, Children, Average

  'Equus' (1973) act 1, sc. 19

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• It's funny how insomnia has a way of hauling faded memories up from the cellar of the mind, unearthing buried bits of nostalgia from deep within and spreading the broken, jagged pieces out in front of you like a display of junk at a garage sale. It makes you feel cheap and guilty when you didn't do a thing in the world to kindle the dull burn in your veins or the sting in your eyes. Some nights the painful past unexpectedly pushes up through the floorboards like an ugly nightmarish weed, and by doing so, cultivates and nurtures an entirely new species of headache.

  Adam Young

  Weed, Memories, Past

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• Faith transcends reason because divine truth is not only higher, but also wider than the human mind, and the rationalist in his haste for premature simplification always tends to shut his eyes to one aspect of the truth and to seek a false harmony of thought by the sacrifice of an essential element of reality.

  Christopher Dawson

  Sacrifice, Reality, Mind

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• When one's eyes are anointed with the salve of prema, spiritual love then we could see Vrindavan.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Spiritual Love

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• People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you're going to see just about all that you can handle.

  Paul Auster

  Thinking, People, World

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• There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have better eyes for the darkness than for the light. We, who have no such optical powers, are better pleased to take our last parting look at the visionary companions of many solitary hours, when the brief sunshine of the world is blazing full upon them.

  Charles Dickens

  Dark, Sunshine, Men

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.607

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• Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Mind, Messengers

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• Every common miracle which the child sees with his own eyes makes of him for the moment another Newton.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Miracle, Common

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “Home Education”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking. Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down. When coming out of sitting, don't think that you're coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures. If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly. You will have a steady awareness within yourself.

  Ajahn Chah

  Attitude, Lying, Thinking

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• We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it; the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, School, Rocks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.451, Modern Library

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• The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Reading, Offering, Perspective

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• For love - I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes.

  Robert Creeley

  Splits, Behinds, Candle

  Robert Creeley, Benjamin Friedlander (2008). “Selected Poems, 1945-2005”, p.60, Univ of California Press

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• Every reality before your eyes was once imagined in the mind of one person. No matter who judges or knocks your dream, pay no attention to them. Instead, create what you imagine, and you will then be amazed at the Divine creative capacity you do have that will be well remembered for serving others.

  Barbara Rose

  Dream, Reality, Judging

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• No single expression denotes love. It's so complex it requires combinations of expressions. These create an identifiable look. You see something like it sometimes in the eyes of slaughterhouse steers.

  L. M. Boyd

  Expression, Looks, Sometimes

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• The President is the symbol of who the people of the United States are. He is the person who stands for us in the eyes of the world and the eyes of our children.

  William Bennett

  Children, People, President

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• Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

  Rajneesh

  Views, Giving, Bird

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• Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Vigilance

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state”, p.212

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• I was trouble - and always in trouble. Aged eight I still couldn't read. In fact, I was dyslexic and short-sighted. Despite sitting at the front of the class, I couldn't read the blackboard. Only after a couple of terms did anyone think to have my eyes tested. Even when I could see, the letters and numbers made no sense at all.

  Richard Branson

  Couple, Thinking, Eight

  Richard Branson (2005). “Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography”, Virgin Pub

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• So just to be clear, Microsoft has created a new operating system that isn't properly compatible with a best-selling, still perfectly useable version of its own software. Which of course provides quite a powerful incentive for me to spend up to £99.99 on upgrading to Microsoft Outlook 2007 - except that in my current mood, I'd rather stick pins in my eyes.

  Robert Peston

  Powerful, Microsoft, Incentives

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• Ask creative people where they get their ideas, and they will roll their eyes. It's the most common question, but it's also a bad one because the answer is inevitably disappointing. From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.

  Gene Weingarten

  Inspiration, Creativity, Ideas

  Gene Weingarten (2010). “The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Feature Writer”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• ...let us save what remains; not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Locks, Use, Waste

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.122, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I always keep my eye focused on what I would and want to wear.

  Cam Newton

  Want, Focused

  "Cam Newton Wants to Teach You How to Wear a Sweater". Interview with Nic Screws, www.bloomberg.com. December 29, 2015.

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• The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Real, Mean, Men

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• Most people enter into relationships with an eye toward what they can get out of them, rather than what they can put into them.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  People, Completeness

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.99, Penguin

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• When I sing, I close my eyes. If I see a feather, everything is fine. Without this image in my mind, the sound is not 'truthful' enough and I must begin again. I have to.

  Sarah Brightman

  Mind, Sound, Truthful

  "The Trees They Grow So High". Notes in the album's CD booklet, 1988.

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