Eye Quotes

What is behind your eyes holds more power than what is in front of them.

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.

There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.

I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes. Smell what fouled tunes come in to his breath. Love his wretched women.

If I had eyes in the back of my head, I would have told you you looked good as I walked away.

The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace.

I want to devour you with my eyes, and tell you over and over that you've never been so beautiful.

We have to not just open our eyes to what's going on in other places; we need to open our eyes to what's going on right in front of us.

I know a cure for sadness: Let our hands touch something that makes your eyes smile.

Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.

Integrity is not what you APPEAR to be when all eyes are on you. It is who you ARE when no one is looking.

You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

The eyes are the nipples of the face.

Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of His glory and grace.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.

I'm used on every level. I have no friends. I have no resting place. I never sleep. I can never close my eyes. It's horrible.

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.

In Paradise there are things which no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human mind has thought of.

Gleaming skin; a plump elongated shape: the eggplant is a vegetable you'd want to caress with your eyes and fingers, even if you didn't know its luscious flavor.

There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record

Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the evening. So many times we settle for routine dishes. This forces you to try new cuisines.

An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes.

Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.

Every time we do something #‎ GOOD . We #‎ RISE a little bit in our OWN eyes and the #‎ REVERSE is just as #‎ TRUE .

One man who saw through his own eyes and thought with his own brain. Such men may be rare, they may be unknown, but they move the world.

I am Massimo Bottura. I close my eyes and I want to understand where I am, cooking is about emotion, it's about culture, it's about love, it's about memory.

You are not your body; you are the eye. When you see the spirit, you are free of the body. A human being is an eye – the rest is just flesh and bones. Whatever your eye sees, you are that.

Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly; and if He does not let you feel the sweetness of His love, it is to make you more humble and abject in your own eyes.

There is no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other.

Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other’s eyes.

Perhaps most intriguing of all is that it is possible to photograph what is impossible for the human eye to see - cumulative time.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.

Think boldly. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Don't miss small details, keep your eyes open and be modest in everything except your aims.

You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.

You are all Buddhas. There is nothing you need to achieve. Just open your eyes.

Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.

In your eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins.

My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze.

The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water.

Try to look at everything through the eyes of a child.

If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.