Eye Quotes - Page 33

• I also remember a line from a song by Smog [Bill Callahan], which seems to describe the experience of a town-dweller moving to the country: "I was raised in a pit of snakes/Blink your eyes - I was raised on cake."

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Country, Song, Moving

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I think the one advantage to a failed - recovering, but a pretty broken - economy, and a lot of broken promises, is that we've pulled the veils from our eyes way earlier than most people do, and realize "Hey, you know what, maybe I should try do this thing that I really care about, and why not spend the time now during my best years to get into knitting, or coding, or swamp boat sailing." And there's this resource called the Internet that's going to provide you with a stage and a library for all of those things.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Thinking, Knitting, Years

  Source: thetartan.org

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• My mom is a little bit eccentric. I mean, she does - she has a lot of unique ideas. For example, she thought that I should have a child with her last husband, Richard, because it would have nice eyes.

  Carrie Fisher

  Mom, Children, Husband

  Source: www.npr.org

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• America that has done more to support Israel than any other country cannot be true to our own values if we allow a viable two-state solution to be destroyed before our own eyes.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, America, Israel

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I guess I was about 15. I wore glasses at the time, and I remember [first girlfriend] sitting on the floor at a party, one of those school parties where everyone is getting off with each other. I remember her taking my glasses off and saying something very complimentary about my eyes or whatever, and I was just so pissed off because I was convinced she was taking the piss out of me.

  George Michael

  Girlfriend, Party, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm perfectly happy to admit that insecurity. It doesn't bother me. It's there, just the same as the color of my eyes is there. I'm never going to get rid of it. I'm not going to wake up one morning and really like the way I look, but as long as other people like the way I look, that's fine.

  George Michael

  Morning, Color, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Today's reading was "if they ask you to walk a mile, walk two. Don't take an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth." You have chances every second to live this Word, but it has to be in you. It can't just be an idea; it has to sink from the mind into the heart.

  Henri Nouwen

  Reading, Heart, Ideas

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• That's prayer to let God's Word speak deep within you and tell you, "You are my beloved. You don't have to take an eye for an eye. No, no you're too rich for that."

  Henri Nouwen

  Letting Go, Prayer, Beloved

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• Maybe that will happen with other countries as well. And so, that's why one of the things that groups like mine that work for the elimination of nuclear weapons and work for their marginalization in the meantime, we say you have to diminish the political value that's attached to nuclear weapons in order to give them less (kind of) desirability in the eyes of governments that do not now have them, and thus to help stop their spread.

  John Burroughs

  Country, Government, Order

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• One morning as I lay sleeping on the floor, a cockroach crawled over my foot. And I opened my eyes out of this dead sleep - about a 43-year sleep - and in place of all that darkness was a joy that I can't describe.

  Byron Katie

  Morning, Sleep, Years

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I think it's possible for me to approach the whole problem with a broader scope.When you look at something through an, an organizational eye, whether it's a, a religious organization, political organization, or a civic organization, if you look at it only through the eye of that organization, you see what the organization wants you to see. But you lose your ability to be objective.

  Malcolm X

  Religious, Thinking, Organization

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• When you aren't affiliated with anything, and then you look at something, you look at it with your eye to the best of your ability.

  Malcolm X

  Looks, Ability

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• When I was in Mecca I noticed that their, they had no color problem. That they had people there whose eyes were blue and people there whose eyes were black, people whose skin was white, people whose skin was black, people whose hair was blond, people whose hair was black, from the whitest white person to the blackest black person.

  Malcolm X

  Hair, Blue, Color

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• It is the attitude of the American white man that is making him stand condemned today before the eyes of the entire dark world and even before the eyes of the Europeans. It is his attitude, his haughty, holier-than-thou attitude.

  Malcolm X

  Attitude, Dark, Men

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• I am blunt sometimes; I am diplomatic sometimes; I am all things in between. Abrasive, you know, I guess it's in the eye of the beholder.

  Susan Rice

  Sometimes, Blunt, Beholder

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I do think people need to recognize that a lot of journalists want to write a story a certain way because the story will be better or the portrayal will be better, or at least recognize that whenever you're looking at something, you're seeing it through somebody's eyes who may actually not be the person who is the most insightful.

  Ray Dalio

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• You have to put yourself in my shoes as a person who believes in radical truth and in being radically transparent, not in seeing things through somebody else's eyes.

  Ray Dalio

  Believe, Shoes, Radical

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• With the media, we don't know what's true, and we don't have radical transparency because we're seeing everything through somebody else's eyes. There's no other industry that has as much power and as much freedom and as little quality control. I can't imagine how anyone could not think that's a problem.

  Ray Dalio

  Thinking, Media, Quality

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• If you have the power to see things through somebody else's eyes, it's like going from black and white to color or two dimensions to three dimensions.

  Ray Dalio

  Black And White, Two, Color

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those that do evil.

  Saint Peter

  Prayer, Evil, Ears

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• The beam in our own eye is harder to detect, although - or more accurately because - to detect it, and remove it, is vastly more important on elementary moral grounds, and commonly more important in terms of direct human consequences as well. Intellectuals have historically played a critical function in performing these tasks, and [Ivan] Illich is right to observe that claims to scientific expertise and special knowledge are often used as a device.

  Noam Chomsky

  Important, Special, Tasks

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful. I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.

  Ida Tarbell

  Book, Writing, Successful

  Source: jcdcvl.wordpress.com

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• Very, very often in movie sex you see this fiction about unity. A union. That somehow these two thinking beings become one, and there's one action and they're sort of perfectly in sync, and the lighting's perfect, and they've got their eyes closed, and they're gone, you know? And then you cut to someone having a cigarette. And it's all so much Novocain. Meanwhile, those of us us watching it are going "I'm never going to tell anybody, but I never have sex like that".

  Tilda Swinton

  Sex, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.nerve.com

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• What I preserved in the figures [at Invisible Man] are those white eyes and white teeth, because that's still connected to the way in which blackness, in the extreme, has been stigmatized and the way it was often joked that you couldn't see black people in the dark until they had their eyes open or were smiling.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Dark, Men, White

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Certainly, anybody who says, "in the eyes of God," is pretentious.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Pretentious

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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