Sharp Eyes Quotes

• The eyes have one language everywhere.

  George Herbert

  Eye, Vision, Language

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.272

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• The world is rated R, and no one is checking IDs. Do not try to make it G by imagining the shadows away. Do not try to hide your children from the world forever, but do not pretend there is no danger . Train them. Give them sharp eyes and bellies full of laughter. Make them dangerous. Make them yeast, and when they’ve grown, they will pollute the shadows.

  N.D. Wilson

  Laughter, Children, Eye

  "Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World".

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• Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.

  Douglas Horton

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Eye, Grace, Feelings

  Flannery O'Connor (1993). “"A Good Man is Hard to Find"”, p.58, Rutgers University Press

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• Anna followed, keeping a sharp eye out for things he might back into or over. She wondered if Isaac did this all the time-and, if so, how he avoided getting photos in the paper with captions like "Local Alpha Trips Over Child" or "Wolf Versus Street Sign, Street Sign Wins.

  Patricia Briggs

  Children, Eye, Winning

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.142, Penguin

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• To perceive victory when it is known to all is not really skilful... It does not take much strength to lift a hair, it does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and moon, it does not take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Eye, Moon

  Sunzi, Sun Tzu, Thomas Cleary (1991). “The art of war”, Shambhala Pubns

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• There is probably nothing finer than to climb free and unencumbered by equipment, reveling in the gymnastic upward movement, like Preuss or a Dulfer before you, relying only upon yourself, keeping a sharp eye on things, feeling the rock beneath your feet and fingertips.

  Hermann Buhl

  Eye, Rocks, Feet

  Reinhold Messner, Horst Höfler, Hermann Buhl (2000). “Hermann Buhl: climbing without compromise”, The Mountaineers Books

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• In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether it is like the faces of healthy people, and especially whether it is like its usual self. Such likeness will be the best sign, and the greatest unlikeness will be the most dangerous sign. The latter will be as follows. Nose sharp, eyes hollow, temples sunken, ears cold and contracted with their lobes turned outwards, the skin about the face hard and tense and parched, the colour of the face as a whole being yellow or black.

  Hippocrates

  Eye, Self, Yellow

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