The Eye Quotes

You only see what your eyes want to see. How can life be what you want it to be?

The piebald mare paws at the sand; I see her digging out of the corner of my eye and hear her grinding her teeth. That bridle's her curse, this island her prison. She still smells of rot.

He lifted his eyes to the girl. She looked afraid. She always looked afraid, these days. The world was a scary place. She said: "Take me with you." He woke up.

And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.

You leave nothing to assumption," Dory Maud says. "You swallow her with your eyes. I'm surprised there's any of her left for the rest of us to see.

I try very hard to keep my eyes from darting to Sean because I'm quite certain that no one will be able to miss how I look at him and how I find him looking back.

Sam looked at me, yellow eyes catching and holding me. "I miss being me. I miss you. All the time.

I was born with these eyes. I was born for this life.

Eleanor's voice was below zero. 'My finest horse to whichever faerie in this room brings me that woman's left eye.' My thoughts exactly.

They bit you. You should've changed, too, you know." "Sometimes I wish I had," I told him. He closed his eyes, miles away on the other side of the bed. "Sometimes I do, too.

The boy had my wolf's eyes.

What do you eat?" "Baby bunnies." She narrowed her eyes, so I grinned and said, "Adult bunnies, too. I'm an equal-opportunity bunny-eater.

Sean looks at me then, his eyes bright, in a way that makes me feel out of sorts. I glare back.

Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.

There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.

If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.

Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.

Khadi will cease to have any value in my eyes if it does not usefully employ the millions.

You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead.

Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged.

The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.

The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

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.

This mixture of Polish, not Polish, of being European, gives me a perspective to see Poland through "new eyes" - paradoxically, more closely... because it's from a kind of distance.

There's no one I trust in show business more than Sabrina Wind. She's my eyes and ears when I can't be there. She weighs in on everything, from scripts to sets to advertising.

One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one s mistress.

The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.

There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.

No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes.

A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.

They know not how many things are signified by the words stealing, sowing, buying, keeping quiet, seeing what ought to be done; for this is not effected by the eyes, but by another kind of vision.

Everyone's sort of the same height when you're looking from bird's eye view.

Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

Keep an eye on the weather, which is changing faster than predicted, and on the new diseases escaping or being made, even as we speak. It's a race between new tech and biosphere bankruptcy, I'd say.

Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon you will be all earth: a known land, a country.

He looked at the piles of food again, and it was like he was seeing it with new eyes. This is wrong, he thought. Letting food rot while people die of hunger. It's evil.

envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are.

A woman’s duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes… to speak and act in defiance of convention.

[Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart aleck--' [Opal] 'Was?' [J] 'Be quiet. I'm telling a story here.

So many I considered, closest to me,turned on a dime and sold me out dutifully,although that knife was chipping away at me,they turned their eyes away and went home to sleep.

the small tuft of fronds or katydid legs above each eye, still numbering the units in each group; the shadbones regularly set about the mouth, to droop or rise

Often miracles are happening right in front of our eyes, but we think they should look different, so we miss them though they're right there.

There's a conflicted look in Day's eyes, a joy and a grief, that makes him so vulnerable. I realize how little defense he has against my words. He loves so wholly. It is his nature.

You're brilliant,"he says."But you're a fool to stay with someone like me." I close my eyes at the touch of his hand."Then we are both fools.

For a small moment, I fix my eyes on his, telling him silently everything that I'll never say to him aloud.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.

Well, beauty's in the eye of the beholder... It's all subjective. I'm kind of shy about it, but I'll take it.

In real life, people are going by fast and it's hard to draw them from my eye alone in a split second.

As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.

How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.