Quotes with eye-to-eye

Quotes 141 till 160 of 212.

  • Beau Bridges Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Beatrix Potter Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
    Beatrix Potters Letters
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • Martin Luther King That old law about ''an eye for an eye'' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Alfred de Vigny The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • George Sand The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • W. H. Auden The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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  • Anish Kapoor The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau The eye is the jewel of the body.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • James Russell Lowell The eye is the notebook of the poet.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Lydia M. Child The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Benjamin Franklin The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Henri-Louis Bergson The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
    Henri-Louis Bergson
    French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1927) (1859 - 1941)
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  • Bono The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Carlo Ratti The first autonomous cars date back to the late 20th century. But recent increases in sophistication and reductions in cost - reflected, for example, in cheap LIDAR systems, which can 'see' a street in 3D in a way similar to that of the human eye - are now bringing autonomous cars closer to the market.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Nadine Gordimer The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Bernard Tschumi The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.
    Bernard Tschumi
    French-Swiss architect, writer, and educator (1944 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Umberto Eco The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Brendan Gleeson The good thing about my part in 'Harry Potter' was that I was pretty well disguised. When I was walking down the street, there was no real recognition factor. Parents would sometimes call their children to come say hello to Mad-Eye, and the kids wouldn't know what they were looking at.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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