Eye Opener Quotes

#1. Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

Johann Sebastian Bach

#2. Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them go from puppyhood to adolescence to strong adulthood and then into their sunset years in 10 to 12 years. It really drives home the point of how finite all our lives are.

John Grogan

#3. When a blind man says, 'God is good,' this should be an eye-opener to those who can see.

Anthony Liccione

#4. Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.

Paula Deen

#5. Kids are a lesson every day, and being married is a lesson every day, but I think having a boutique and running it with my husband and having our careers and raising children was something that was really an eye-opener all the time.

Lisa Rinna

#6. A boy wrote me once to say that he loved it when the news from Lake Wobegon came on the radio because it meant that his parents stopped arguing. That was an eye-opener for me. You work hard to polish your act and then you find out that it does people good in ways you couldn't predict.

Garrison Keillor

#7. Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter. -Jim Elliot

Elisabeth Elliot

#8. Georgia Dome was a pretty big eye opener that I had something kind of going in the right direction. It seemed like a movement, and I was greatly appreciative for the chants and the signs.

Bill Goldberg

#9. My new private flying job was a real eye opener.

K.C. Barnard

#10. Tonight was definitely an eye opener, but a reminder of how I use to be & why. Self discovery happens at such random times.

April Mae Monterrosa

#11. Love is blind. Marriage is an eye-opener.

Leonard Ravenhill

#12. When I run across something that feels like a real eye-opener, it's gonna have an influence on me forever.

J. Robbins

#13. I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital ... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways.

Travis Barker

#14. What did I tell you, Mr. Pippin?' said Sam, sheathing his sword. 'Wolves won't get him. That was an eye-opener, and no mistake! Nearly singed the hair off my head!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. We [with David Cunningham] did do Top Of The Pops. It was an eye-opener. I mean, one of the things that was so interesting - I've talked about this a few times recently, and people can't believe it - they used to do this thing called tape switch with the Musicians Union.

David Toop

#16. I think the best thing about my short-lived political career was that I saw the interiors of Bihar and UP. That is the real India, and, being an Indian, it was really sad to see our own people living in such dismal conditions. It was a real eye-opener.

Sanjay Dutt

#17. But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.

Lakhdar Brahimi

#18. Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.

Mario Batali

#19. It's interesting to take a look at people who deal with prejudice on a daily basis - it's been a real eye opener for me.

Deborah Ann Woll

#20. My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.

Frances O'Grady

#21. For me, Glasgow is all about the people and the spirit of the place. You have enough Gregg's bakers, though, I'll say that. The opening of the 1977 'Star Wars' movie was possibly the only time I've seen a longer queue round the block than in Glasgow for sausage rolls. That was quite an eye-opener.

Darren Boyd

#22. Going home and just seeing what a mess youth baseball was was an eye-opener. I just want to make it a better game.

Roy Halladay

#23. I'm satisfied in a way because this is an eye opener for me, ... I didn't have the success I've always been able to have. I learned a lot.

Michael Phelps

#24. Beware the faces that bare the most smiles.
For they are the ones who hide the most sadness - .

A.R. Von

#25. The best way to put more money in people's wallets
is to leave it there in the first place.

Edwin Feulner

#26. Make sure it is God's trumpet you are blowing-
if it is only yours it won't wake the dead,
it will simply disturb the neighbours.

W. Ian Thomas

#27. I grew up in Manchester in a big Irish family - there are seven of us in all - so my life has always been about role-playing, about doing anything for a laugh. I'm always joking about; that's the way I am.

Shayne Ward

#28. The things we hold inside, the nightmares we stifle, have far more power than the things we expose to the light of day.

Nalini Singh

#29. A knowledgeable physical therapist can slowly build up patients' confidence by reassuring them that there is no structural problem and reminding them of the physiologic reason for the pain.

John E. Sarno

#30. If you service low-impact activities, therefore, you're taking away time you could be spending on higher-impact activities. It's a zero-sum game.

Cal Newport

#31. Sometimes, to protect a secret we will say it so openly that most will not suspect the truth of what we are saying.

Donna Goddard

#32. Not everything that is seen is visible.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#33. After September, I've reflected on the campaign, and being a new father of twin boys, I really feel like I owe it to the kids in the city to give this a shot and make this district a better place.

Jeffrey O. Henley