His Eyes Quotes - Page 39

• Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.

  Robert E. Howard

  Eye, Men, Apes

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.17, Del Rey

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• To see is one thing; to picture or visualise is another. A person can see things, only when his eyes are open, and when his surroundings are illuminated; but he can have pictures in his mind's eye, when his eyes are shut and when the world is dark.

  Gilbert Ryle

  Eye, Dark, Mind

  Gilbert Ryle (2009). “The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.223, Routledge

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• A Hebrew knelt in the dying light, His eye was dim and cold; The hairs on his brow were silver white, And his blood was thin and old.

  Thomas Kibble Hervey

  Eye, Light, Hair

  Thomas Kibble Hervey (1849). “The devil's progress: A poem”, p.27

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• The Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that pricked at his eyes. Without that tapestry of colour and words and ritual, what was life but eating and mating, sleeping and moving your bowels? All of them good and necessary, but not enough; and they themselves needed that framework too, to give them meaning.

  S.M. Stirling

  Song, Moving, Eye

  "The Sword of the Lady". Book by S. M. Stirling, 2009.

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• The old man has been long at the fair. He is acquainted with the jugglers at the booths. His curiosity has been satisfied. He no longer cares for the exceptional, the monstrous, the marvelous and deformed. He looks through and beyond the gilding, the glitter and gloss, not only of things, but of conduct, of manners, theories, religions and philosophies. He sees clearer. The light no longer shines in his eyes.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Philosophy, Eye, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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• The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels half ignorant until he has confirmed each bright particular with his eyes.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Book, Ignorance, Eye

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• I had held a notion that I could make a pretty fair appraisal of the worth of an opponent simply by speaking to him on the first tee and taking a good measuring look into his eyes.

  Bobby Jones

  Eye, Golf, Looks

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• Jesus, in fact, was typical of a certain kind of fanatical young idealist: at one moment holding forth, with tears in his eyes, about the need for universal love; at the next, furiously denouncing the morons, crooks and bigots who did not see eye to eye with him. It is very natural and very human behaviour. But it is not superhuman.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Jesus, Eye, Tears

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• The man who contemplates the universe with his eyes wide open is the man with the greatest amount of natural piety; not in the religious sense, but in the sense of an intimate harmony with things.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Eye, Men

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Secret Conversations, 1941-1944”

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• His emotion evident in the glitter of his eyes.

  Yukio Mishima

  Eye, Glitter, Emotion

  Yukio Mishima (1990). “Runaway Horses”, Vintage

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• God does not give His grace as He gives His sunshine - pouring it out on all alike. He discriminates in spiritual blessings. He gives strength according to our need. His eye is ever on us in tender, watchful love, and what we need He supplies.

  J.R. Miller

  Spiritual, Eye, Sunshine

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• One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Eye, Style, Tears

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “The English humourists of the eighteenth century: a series of lectures”, p.276

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• If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust of many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use him cautiously.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Eye, Heart, Hands

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1857). “The Crock of Gold, and Other Tales”, p.106

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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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• I see a long lost home in his eyes. He sees a nice hotel in mine.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Sex, Nice, Home

  Song: Forever Baby

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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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• 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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• 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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• He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320

  Leo Tolstoy

  Distance, Eye, Men

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• Perhaps someone will have seen mine, the one I’m waiting for, just as I saw him, in a ditch when his hands were making their last appeal and his eyes no longer could see. Someone who will never know what that man was to me; someone whose name I’ll never know.

  Marguerite Duras

  Eye, Men, Hands

  Marguerite Duras (1986). “La douleur”, HarperCollins

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• Entrance and exit wounds are silvered clean, The track aches only when the rain reminds. The one-legged man forgets his leg of wood, The one-armed man his jointed wooden arm. The blinded man sees with his ears and hands As much or more than once with both his eyes.

  Robert Graves

  Rain, Eye, Men

  Robert Graves (1959). “Collected Poems, 1959”, London : Cassell

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• God's treasury where He keeps His children's gifts will be like many a mother's store of relics of her children, full of things of no value to others, but precious in His eyes for the love's sake that was in them.

  Francois Fenelon

  God, Mother, Children

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.262, 1895.

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• Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Eye, Thinking, Age

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1221, Delphi Classics

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• A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives or tedious acquaintances because a familiarity engendered in the cradle had stripped them of all glamour in his eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Eye, Men, Earth

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.346, Modern Library

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• He that would be content with a mean condition must not cast his eye upon one that is in a far better estate than himself, but let him look upon him that is lower than he is, and, if he see that such a one bears poverty comfortably, it will help to quiet him.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Mean, Eye, Poverty

  Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.285, Harvard University Press

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