Christopher Hitchens Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Death, Eye, Looks

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

• In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved himself a latter-day Voltairean by whimpering that he could see how this might shake belief in a friendly creator. Williamson is of course a notorious fool, who does an almost perfect imitation of a bleating and frightened sheep, but even so, one is forced to rub one's eyes in astonishment. Is it possible that a grown man could live so long and still have his personal composure, not to mention his lifetime job description, upset by a large ripple of seawater?

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Jobs, Ocean

• It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Eye, Matter, Taste

• Though it is true we are the highest and smartest animals, ospreys have eyes we have calculated to be sixty times more powerful and sophisticated than our own and that blindness, often caused by microscopic parasites that are themselves miracles of ingenuity, is one of the oldest and most tragic disorders known to man. And why award the superior eye (or in the case of cat or bat, also the ear) to the inferior species.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Powerful, Cat, Eye

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.84, Atlantic Books Ltd

• Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the life of Socrates is intellectually defective.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Jesus, Eye, Looks

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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