Dilates Quotes

#1. Ah me! what hand can pencil guide, or pen, To follow half on which the eye dilates Through views more dazzling unto mortal ken Than those whereof such things the bard relates, Who to the awe-struck world unlocked Elysium's gates?

George Gordon Byron

#2. All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine.

William Cowper

#3. The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

Victor Hugo

#4. Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious; sailors always are. There is something in the illimitable expanse of sky and water that dilates the imagination.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#5. The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener - a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.

Dale Carnegie

#6. The pupil dilates in the night, and at last finds day in it, even as the soul dilates in misfortune, and at last finds God in it.

Victor Hugo

#7. A watched cervix never dilates.

Amy Poehler

#8. If time dilates when one moves at high speeds, does it contract when one moves barely at all? It must: the days have shortened considerably.

Paul Kalanithi

#9. We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us.

A. Theodore Tuttle

#10. I was seriously afraid you were going to kill yourself on our property

Amber L. Johnson

#11. You are a reader, not a cheerleader" (from interview at Lilies and Cannonballs Review)

Inigo Garcia Ureta

#12. There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow

#13. It seems to happen sudden - a fighter gets good. He gets easy and graceful. He learns how to save himself - no energy wasted ... he slips and slides - he travels with the punch ... Oh, sure, I like the way you're shaping up.

Clifford Odets

#14. A friend, even if he be the enemy's son , should be protected.

Chanakya