Top 100 An Eye Quotes
#1. It's all about fate and destiny, and opening the right door at the right time, and having the guts to walk through it. It's amazing how everything changes in the blink of an eye.
Danielle Steel
#2. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, means we won't be able to see what we are unable to eat
Daniel Lee Edstrom
#3. Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other. I have seen an eye curse for half an hour together, and an eyebrow call a man a scoundrel.
Joseph Addison
#4. Plan your day with an eye to your tendency to procrastinate, and put in safeguards to keep it to a minimum.
John Perry
#5. What teachings of Scripture do you still mainly follow out of dutiful habit, not with an eye toward honoring God or being used as a blessing to others? What has your legalistic adherence gained for you, and what has it cost you?
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#6. Amos surely left it behind for a reason, and more and more Mrs. Bowe felt she was following a path trod out for her by another. For the time being, she was willing to play the part allotted to her. But she would keep an eye on the boy in her way.
Ari Berk
#7. We had been younger. Yup, you can grow a lot in the blink of an eye.
Liz Thebart
#8. Nietzsche, in a rare moment of deep stillness, wrote, For happiness, how little suffices for happiness! ... the least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a wisk, an eye glance - little maketh up the best happiness. Be still.
Eckhart Tolle
#9. Thus the creationist's favourite question "What is the use of half an eye?" Actually, this is a lightweight question, a doddle to answer. Half an eye is just 1 per cent better than 49 per cent of an eye.
Richard Dawkins
#10. Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
Caio Fonseca
#11. Consciousness ain't slower than a blink of an eye.
Toba Beta
#12. It wasn't Adonis that she didn't trust. She did. It was these skank hoes she had to keep an eye on.
Em Wolf
#13. In every man there is an eye of the soul, which ... is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.
Plato
#14. Faith is seated in the understanding as well as in the will. It has an eye to see Christ as well as a wing to fly to Christ.
Richard Watson
#15. Today I am
a small blue thing
Like a marble
or an eye
Suzanne Vega
#16. I first found out I had cancer on my eye and lost an eye to this disease when I was 16, and I've since had cancer in my kidneys and pancreas and a host of other areas.
Tom Rath
#17. Americans are so emotionally fragile that soon we will have to be carried around in plastic bubbles and fed with an eye-dropper.
Florence King
#18. Women are so suspicious of any interest that has not some obvious motive behind it, so terribly accustomed to concealment and suppression, that they are off at the flicker of an eye turned observingly in their direction.
Virginia Woolf
#19. I'm always keeping an eye on the court. Also, when the members of Congress came to his office during the budget debacle of a year and a half back and said, "We want to de-fund Planned Parenthood," he said, "Not going to happen." Those apparently were more or less his exact words.
Anna Quindlen
#20. To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
Maria Montessori
#21. Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all.
One.
Two.
Three.
Blink.
Meg Cabot
#22. Doesn't it scare you having your death close by all the time?" said Lyra. "Why ever would it? If he's there, you can keep an eye on him. I'd be a lot more nervous not knowing where he was.
Philip Pullman
#23. Man ... heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand ... heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#24. People get too caught up in what they don't have and get bogged down as a result. There's joy in the present. It's important to just make the most of the these moments we have. Keep an eye on the future, but don't forget to enjoy NOW.
Richelle Mead
#25. We hardly ever realize it, that we have the ability to cut anything out of our lives, any pain, any misery, any negative person, anytime, in the blink of an eye. We hold the power.
Jose N. Harris
#26. When society believes that an eye for an eye is acceptable, eventually everyone will go blind." At
Bella Forrest
#27. For happiness, how little suffices for happiness! ... the least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a wisk, an eye glance - little maketh up the best happiness. Be still.4
Eckhart Tolle
#28. When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.
Placido Domingo
#29. The eye of the human understanding is not a naked organ of perception (lumen siccum), but an eye imbued with moisture by Will and Passion. Man always believes what he determines to believe.
Francis Bacon
#30. A person who is seeking to feel justification for some action might move from "What you've done angers me" to "What you've done is wrong." Popular justifications include the moral high ground of righteous indignation and the more simple equation known by its biblical name: an eye for an eye.
Gavin De Becker
#31. That's advanced capitalism for you: The player making the maximum capital investment gets the maximum critical information in order to reap the maximum desired profit with maximum capital efficiency - and nobody bats an eye.
Haruki Murakami
#32. My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.
Don Rickles
#33. Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
O. Henry
#34. And to keep an eye too on anyone prone to a bit of cackling.
Terry Pratchett
#35. That is something we shouldn't forget: we have an eye for that which is foreign to us, but are blind to the familiar.
Pablo De Santis
#36. I believe a writer is an eye, a pervasive eye that sees the reality that surrounds us, as well as the impression it makes on our souls. It reacts - or does not react - by putting it on paper.
Mariela Griffor
#37. I just give the class what I understand of what it wants, and keep an eye on it to see what it wants next.
Ron Jeffries
#38. If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#39. There can never be a clock at the center of the Universe to which everyone can set their watches. Your entire life can be the blink of an eye to an alien who leaves Earth traveling close to the speed of light, then returns an hour later to find that you have been dead for centuries.
Clifford A. Pickover
#40. Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religious matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices.
George Berkeley
#41. Keep an eye to the future, and ear to the past, and after thinking it over notice nothing much lasts.
Robert Hunter
#42. The Quran obliges every able Muslim to participate in jihad and fight in the way of Allah those who fight you, and kill them wherever you find them ... an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
#43. Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.
James Cook
#44. It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see.
James Hetfield
#45. I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom.
Sandra Cisneros
#46. Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.
Adi Shankara
#47. Everything turns slower when she's not around, but when she's with me, an hour feels like a blink of an eye.
Rea Lidde
#49. Keep an eye on the future as you work in the present and you will catch a glimpse of the completed work which you have been called to do.
Jonah Books
#50. Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#51. Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.
Amy Winehouse
#52. in the sentiment of Mahatma Gandhi, when we practice the law of an eye for an eye, we all end up blind.
Desmond Tutu
#53. We get what we deserve. When we allow dirty players to be sanitized and called "intense competitors," when we accept classless gestures and taunting as healthy enthusiasm, when we cheer for the barbaric, eye-for-an-eye mentality of players throwing baseballs at each other, we get what we deserve.
Phil Taylor
#54. It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.
Leonid Brezhnev
#55. You always had an eye for the fellow with a decent helping of sausage and hard-boiled eggs.
Gregory Maguire
#56. There is an Eye that never sleeps, Beneath the wind of night. There is an ear that never shuts, When sinks the beams of light. There is an Arm that never tires, When human strength gives way. There is a Love that never fails, When earthly loves decay.
George Matheson
#57. Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.
Og Mandino
#58. Despite our battered exterior and in spite of the festering scars and rank filth that overlays it, there is underneath it all the pristine likeness of God Himself. And we would be wise to cast an eye not on the marred exterior, but to be fixed on the glorious interior.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#59. I'm having a mid-life crisis, so I thought instead of having sex with a stranger, I'd just get a new haircut. It's good clean fun without all the messy emotional baggage. It's just a haircut folks! It's not like I had an eye removed, or a leg added on! Live a little ... it'll grow back!
Ed Robertson
#60. When I get to Heaven they aren't going to see much of me but my heels, for I'll be hanging over the golden wall keeping an eye on the Lisu Church!
Isobel Miller Kuhn
#61. The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produces no concept; therefore, it is dumb.
Umberto Eco
#62. Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless.
Andrew Young
#63. We cant all be Xena, Warrior Princess,' Zoe chided, her smile faltering into an eye roll.
Tabitha Caplinger
#64. We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#66. Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed, The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near.
James Montgomery
#67. But, for the time being, every magistrate and militia group between here and the borders will be keeping an eye our for you.
Ty Johnston
#68. An eye for an eye.
And the whole world goes blind.
Lauren Oliver
#69. Sometimes love can happen in the blink of an eye. So fast that you barely notice it at first. It flickers like a tiny spark before roaring into a raging bonfire. And then it finally reaches that point you're covered in flames. I've been that way for a while. I feel like I've been burning forever.
Lauren Hammond
#70. True unconditional Love is all we need to change this world in the blink of an eye.
Maria Teresa De Donato
#71. You're smart and witty. You're so talented and really have an eye for advertising. Trust in that, and trust in the person who interviewed you today to see that about you.
Victoria Michaels
#72. I wish I had time to explain everything I did. Almost everything was done with an eye on the GLBT movement ... last week I got a phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and the voice was young, my election gave one more young person, hope
Harvey Milk
#73. Not willingly," admitted the tiger. "But here is the alternative; either you transform yourself into an eye for our child, or I and my dear wife will tear you into shreds.
L. Frank Baum
#74. How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been proper for a tribe of ardent barbarians wandering through the sands of Arabia which are wholly unfit for an enlightened people of civilized and gentle manners.
Gerald Heaney
#75. There is a time in each of our lives when we are hurled into the terrible understanding that bedrock can crumble in the blink of an eye.
Shannon Polson
#76. I'm generally not a fan of didactic art because it papers over many of the hard experiences about war or anything else in life. I wanted to explore various aspects of the experience without an eye towards delivering any particular message.
Phil Klay
#77. I've got all of my enemies here in the Cabinet where I can keep an eye on them.
John Diefenbaker
#78. I'm a little bit shy and from the Midwest, so to be so open and honest with millions of people is pretty difficult. To have people constantly having an eye on you and very interested in what you're doing at all times - it can be a little stressful at times.
Connor Franta
#79. I really have to keep an eye on myself, because sometimes I think I might say something important.
Leslie Nielsen
#80. I'm like the female version of George Clooney in 'Up in the Air.' I have to have an eye mask, and Amore Pacific has this cream face mask that's moisturizing. Moisture is so important in the stuffy, dry air on a plane.
Nina Dobrev
#81. Words are only an eye-twitch away from the things they stand for.
Thomas Pynchon
#82. My grandpa would take me to the driving range and, I don't know, it didn't take me long to realize I'm a little different with golf. I have an eye for seeing things differently. Somehow I just see shots in my head.
Rickie Fowler
#83. Daniel understood that in the blink of an eye you might reinvent yourself. He understood that the person you were yesterday might not be the person you are tomorrow.
Jodi Picoult
#84. I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined.
Timothy Ferriss
#85. Love has many mysteries, and this first infatuation is also a mystery, even if a minor one - most people who rush into it get engaged or indulge in other foolish pranks, and then it's all over with the twinkling of an eye and they don't know what they have conquered or what they have lost.
Soren Kierkegaard
#86. Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability
To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here
Maynard James Keenan
#87. Technology can do amazing things for us. It's something we need to keep an eye on.
Joseph Kosinski
#88. It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.
Jan Struther
#89. Baby wipes are great for everything! For wiping babies' butts, as an eye-makeup remover, to wipe the counter, to clean my hands at the airport, just everything.
Bethenny Frankel
#90. The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.
William Wordsworth
#91. I don't intend to use beer as a crutch and drink until I pass out. So advice, keep an eye on that so you can get in there and get yourself drunk sex before it turns unpretty and drunk sex ends with me puking and / or passing out during the act.
Kristen Ashley
#92. Once we have this inner peace, world peace can be achieved in the twinkling of an eye.
Sri Chinmoy
#93. What is he planning to do with that quarter? Hurl it at my face and hope to put an eye out? With Romeo anything can become a weapon-love, trust ... loose change.
Stacey Jay
#94. There's something I call telegenekicity, and it's not about just models. Of course, I can reference Iman, Tatiana Patitz, Kelly Emberg, Bonnie Berman - I go all the way back - but I think that you develop an eye to register iconic images - like Greta Garbo and Elizabeth Taylor.
Michael Flutie
#95. You ever notice that? Any time you see two groups of people who really hate each other, chances are good they're wearing different kind of hats. Keep an eye on that, it might be important.
George Carlin
#96. I wish there was something where you could blink an eye and be somewhere. I'm a very nervous flier. I wish we could get from point A to point B instantly.
Gayle King
#97. With an eye toward changing the way millions grow older, Novartis, the $260 billion Swiss pharmaceutical giant, has begun taking the first steps to position a version of rapamycin as the first true anti-aging drug.
Anonymous
#98. It is strange that what seems at first alien becomes second nature in the blink of an eye.
Sara Sheridan
#99. Across clearings, an eye,
A widening deepening greenness,
Brilliantly, concentratedly,
Coming about its own business.
Ted Hughes
#100. An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load.
John Piper
