Quotes with eye-lids

Quotes 181 till 200 of 213.

  • Doug Horton Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • William Blake Tiger, tiger burning bright,
    In the forests of the night,
    What immortal hand or eye,
    Could frame thy fearful symmetry.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Norman Douglas To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • William Congreve To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Anton Chekhov To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • William Shakespeare To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Jessamyn West To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.
    Jessamyn West
    American author of short stories and novels (1902 - 1984)
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  • Robert Smith True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.
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  • Cate Blanchett Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Susan Sontag War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view ''realistically;'' that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent - war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • A. Philip Randolph We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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  • Byron Howard We thought a human city is kind of like that watering hole. It's where different groups come together and have to find ways to live and survive and cohabit and cooperate, but they may not always see eye-to-eye.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Augustus William Hare What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching of the eye almost always.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Berenice Abbott What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.
    Berenice Abbott
    American photographer (1898 - 1991)
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  • Caspar David Friedrich What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of only forty-five degrees. And furthermore, what is in Nature separated by large spaces, is compressed into a cramped space and overfills and over-satiates the eye, creating an unfavorable and disquieting effect on the viewer.
    Caspar David Friedrich
    German landscape painter (1774 - 1840)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Agnes Martin When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
    Agnes Martin
    Canadian-born American abstract painter (1912 - 2004)
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  • Bryan Batt When I've ridden in parades, I always throw to the kids, the elderly and anyone who is smiling and having a great time. I try to make eye contact with the person. If you catch a ton and a kid nearby hasn't caught much, share.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Bernard Barton When thou a fast would'st keep, Make not thy homage cheap, By publishing its signs to every eye; But let it be between Thyself and the Unseen, So shall it gain acceptance from on high.
    Bernard Barton
    English Quaker poet (1784 - )
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