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The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

John Vance Cheney


I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Sir Laurence Olivier


Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared.

Isaac Newton
English mathematician & physicist (1642 - 1727)


The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

Saint Jerome
church father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD)


You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.

Michael Wilding


You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)


As each child looks at the world through innocent eyes all they can see, Is the worlds way of life and the way they think their lives should be.

Kandice Hehner, Innocent Eyes


Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

George Jean Nathan
US drama critic & editor (1882 - 1958)


The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

Saint Jerome, Letter
church father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD)


Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Henry Ford
US automobile industrialist (1863 - 1947)


Keep your eyes to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.

Helen Keller
US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968)


Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Vince Lombardi
US football coach (1913 - 1970)


Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Hannah Moore


Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Theodore Roosevelt
26th president of US (1858 - 1919)


To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham


I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin
French Post-Impressionist painter (1848 - 1903)


We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
British dramatist & screenwriter (1937 - )


It does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and the moon, nor does it take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap. Wisdom is not obvious. You must see the subtle and notice the hidden to be victorious.

Sun Tzu, The Art of War


It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

George Gissing
English novelist (1857 - 1903)


Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

Arnold Bennett




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