In The Eye Quotes

In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.

I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

Maturity is a stage of life when you don't see eye to eye but can walk arm in arm.

I have no knowledge other than that gained through my own eyes.

Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

With one eye on today's blessings you will have more staying power for the distant goal.

We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.

Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.

What we choose to love is very important for what we love leads our eyes, ears, and hearts on a pilgrimage that shapes the texture of our lives.

At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see them.

My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.

There were a thousand secrets in her eyes, a thousand wounds. A lifetime of distrust and betrayal. Isolation. How did one overcome such things?

And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.

The road from the eye to the heart is easy to follow. I am taking it with my eyes closed.

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.

It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal.

One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

I understand why people get desensitized and roll their eyes when they hear a protest song, or even a politician making some flowery speech. It doesn't really change anything.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and psyche unparalleled in history.

One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.

How those holy men of old could storm the battlements above! When there was no way to look but up, they lifted up their eyes to God who made the hills, with unshakable confidence.

People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.

We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.

"Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed... awake." Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again. "I'm tired of sleeping."

so i sneak out to the garden to see you, we keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew, so close your eyes, escape this town for a little while.

I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were cold and dead.

For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.

Plan your day with an eye to your tendency to procrastinate, and put in safeguards to keep it to a minimum.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.

Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.

Try to see the joyful side of life. One must see the pain of life with clear eyes, and help all he can; but there is also lots of joy, and on should see that, too.

Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.

Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.