His Eyes Quotes - Page 37

• ...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist and, if his eyes are keen and his powers of observation sharp enough, he may well become both.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Nature, Eye, Tears

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• The unicorn was white, with hoofs of silver and graceful horn of pearl... The glorious thing about him was his eye. There was a faint bluish furrow down each side of his nose, and this led to the eye sockets, and surrounded them in a pensive shade. The eyes, circled by this sad and beautiful darkness, were so sorrowful, lonely, gentle and nobly tragic, that they killed all other emotions except love.

  T. H. White

  Beautiful, Lonely, Eye

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• If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

  Thomas Gray

  Hate, Eye, Men

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• I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and meek, she cries. As soon as I went An angel came. He winked at the thief And smiled at the dame- And without one word spoke Had a peach from the tree, And 'twixt earnest and joke Enjoyed the lady.

  William Blake

  Lying, Eye, Angel

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.153, Pearson Education

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• A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present, instead of their own. Those photographers are blind.

  Manuel Alvarez Bravo

  Eye, Past, Use

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• Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.

  Anthony Quinn

  Eye, Men, Blue

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• There's a tear in his eye that refuses to fall. If it would land on me, that would say it all.

  Tim McGraw

  Pain, Fall, Eye

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• If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Eye, Fire, History

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• The man with a heart cannot think about or see creatures without his eyes filling up with tears because of the immense compassion which seizes his heart.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Kindness, Eye, Heart

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• He cast his eyes upon her and the trouble soon began, cause Leroy Brown learned a lesson about messing with the wife of a jealous man.

  Jim Croce

  Revenge, Eye, Jealous

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• Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,-render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!

  William Wordsworth

  Eye, Men, Echoes

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.850, Wordsworth Editions

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• From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty, were hostile, and the man who pretended they were not, was in his eyes a schoolmaster -- that is, a man employed to tell lies to little boys.

  Henry Adams

  Summer, Country, Lying

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1271, Open Road Media

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• A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.

  Vincent Piazza

  Powerful, Eye, Men

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• The anarchist is dressed all in black. In the dark you can only see his eyes. It dates from the 1930's. Porky Pig is a little boy. The children told me that he has a nephew now, Cicero. Do you remember, during the war, when Porky worked in a defense plant? He and Bugs Bunny. That was a good one too.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Children, War, Eye

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.43, Penguin

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• A characteristic thing about the aspiring immigrant is the fact that he is not content to progress alone. Solitary success is imperfect success in his eyes. He must take his family with him as he rises.

  Mary Antin

  Eye, Progress, Facts

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.245, Courier Corporation

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• The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.

  Oscar W. Firkins

  Eye, Reality, Men

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• And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go.

  Michael Lindsay-Hogg

  Eye, Dollars, Pennies

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

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• You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Eye, Fighting

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• When I look at Jesus' warm and intimate friendships, my heart fills with praise that Jesus was. . . a man. A man of flesh-and-blood reality. His heart felt the sting of sympathy. His eyes glowed with tenderness. His arms embraced. His lips smiled. His hands touched. Jesus was male! Jesus invites us to relate to him as the Son of Man. And because he is fully man, we can relate to Jesus with affection and love.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Jesus, Eye, Heart

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• On Laurence Olivier as Hamlet in a 1948 film: Olivier's idea of introspection was to hood his eyes, dentalize his consonants and let the camera circle his blondined head like a sparrow looking for a place to deposit its droppings.

  Robert Brustein

  Eye, Circles, Ideas

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• Watch their hands, watch their eyes.  Read eyes.  No matter what a man is saying to you, it's not as important as what you can read in his eyes.  The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he's not telling you; the most important thing he has to say is what he's trying not to say.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Eye, Men, Hands

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• I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain... & therefore that when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes.

  Charles Darwin

  Book, Eye, Science

  Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith (1985). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin”, p.55, Cambridge University Press

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• Since Martin Luther closed his eyes, no such son of our people has appeared again. It has been decided that we shall be the first to witness his reappearance.... I think the time is past when one may not say the names of Hitler and Luther in the same breath. They belong together; they are of the same old stamp.

  Bernhard Rust

  Eye, Son, Past

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• For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Lying, Eye, Men

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1850). “Cicero's Three Books of Offices, or Moral Duties; also his Cato Major, an essay on Old Age; Lælius, an essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate. Literally translated, with notes ... by Cyrus R. Ed”, p.313

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• Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sweet, Song, Eye

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