Spectacles Quotes

Spectacles Quote of the day

Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.

There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward.

We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death?

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.

Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.

The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.

One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.

Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own nature.

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.

He gave me a severe look over his spectacles and said, as if he thought the words were deadly venom and might kill me, "You are an untidy person.

Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.

A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles, lighting and magnifying the page.

Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. - March 15, 1783

Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze. [Spectacles are death's arquebuse.]

Men. You can't live with them, you can't shoot them.

Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles.

Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.

How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter.

Heaven is a house full of miracles; yea, of spectacles and images of free grace.

Contact lenses are for vain, weak-willed piglets who swan around showing off: 'Look everybody, I can see without spectacles. No one at first glance will ever assume I know how to surf the net.'

The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.

Compelling spectacles are not to reach a niche market, it could be for reaching a niche marketing but on a grand scale. This is for grand marketing.

The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.

It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.

After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.

Kirpal's left hand swoops down and catches the dropped fork an inch from the floor and gently passes it into the fingers of his daughter, a wrinkle at the edge of his eyes behind his spectacles.

It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.

The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And her spectacles lay on her apron'd knees.

How do you invent a religion?” Evie asked. Will looked over the top of his spectacles. “You say, ‘God told me the following,’ and then wait for people to sign up.

Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with - often with cruel and deceitful intentions - in an unreal world.

A wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.

Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood.

I also think he is given to disguises...Sometimes he wears spectacles and sometimes he does not. And twice he has worn an extremely peculiar hat. Inside.

Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see clearly without them.

A woman's hair net tangled in a man's spectacles on top of the bedroom dresser.

All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to see those under their very noses.

One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.

Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.