Famous English Quotes on Eyes

Famous English Quotes on Eyes

  • The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust
  • The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. ~ William Blake
  • It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. ~ W. E. B. Du Bois
  • When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. ~ Desmond Tutu
  • The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
  • He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it. ~ Leopold Von Ranke
  • The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • When a woman isn’t beautiful, people always say, ‘You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.’ ~ Anton Chekhov
  • I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. ~ Sylvia Plath
  • Snow isn’t just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grime of a Fife mining town but also of a kind of weary familiarity, a taken-for-granted quality to which our eyes are all too susceptible. ~ John Burnside
  • All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. ~ Swami Vivekananda
  • What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. ~ Saint Augustine
  • It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living. ~ Terry Pratchett
  • There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can’t look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change? ~ Andrea Jung
  • I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She’s instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for. ~ Scott Brooks

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