Sayings About Magnifying Glasses

#1. When we set goals, we are in command. Clearly understood goals bring our lives into focus just as a magnifying glass focuses a beam of light into a burning point. Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive

Ezra Taft Benson

#2. I will stand up and speak in my own voice and no man will ever silence me again.

Philippa Gregory

#3. If you must say yes, say it with an open heart. If you must say no, say it without fear.

Paulo Coelho

#4. Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes.

Duane Michals

#5. Instead of getting an iPad, I now use my iPhone with a giant magnifying glass attached to my face.

Tony Hsieh

#6. Failure is life's magnifying glass.

Simon May

#7. Love has a way of showing you to yourself, whether through satisfaction or humiliation. It hovers over you like a magnifying glass you cannot escape, intensifying the slightest feelings of either delight or shame. No other experience makes so obvious the realities of both heaven and hell.

Marianne Williamson

#8. It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames.

Harry Hill

#9. When I was little, I would burn ants with a magnifying glass. But now that I'm older, I'm more of a cat guy.

Anthony Jeselnik

#10. The Magicians brilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic, taking what's simple on the surface and turning it over to show us the complicated writhing mess beneath. It's like seeing the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter through a 3-D magnifying glass.

Naomi Novik

#11. It was summer and moonlight and we had lemonade to drink, and we held the cold glasses in our hands, and Dad read the stereo-newspapers inserted into the special hat you put on your head and which turned the microscopic page in front of the magnifying lens if you blinked three times in succession.

Ray Bradbury

#12. The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Alexander Pope

#13. Wishes are like magnifying glasses they enlarge and focus an intention that is already inside us.

Stephen Mitchell

#14. Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

Herodotus

#15. Q: How can I help myself?
A: By remembering the proverb: 'The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service', from Saadi.

Idries Shah

#16. Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.

John Coltrane

#17. I'm getting to the end of my magnifying glasses now. One eye's gone completely. The other is gradually dimming. Dimming - that sounds very dramatic, doesn't it? I'm so lucky. I can still make a living - and the same kind of living.

Sue Townsend

#18. I was the child at school in second-hand or handmade clothes and, as I grew older, I craved material wealth, a big house and designer clothes.

Roz Savage

#19. Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

Thomas Browne

#20. Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

Miguel De Cervantes

#21. The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that they do, just the smallest movement, is very detectible.

Olivia Thirlby

#22. I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.

Charles Lindbergh

#23. What happens from here on out is unknown territory for anybody. There's no map. We don't find out what's waiting for us around the next corner until we turn it. I have no idea.

Haruki Murakami

#24. purgation deals essentially with our "trust structures," especially those deep inner postures of our being that do not rely on God but on self for our well-being.

M. Robert Mulholland Jr.

#25. Hospitality is the practice of God's welcome by reaching across difference to participate in God's actions bringing justice and healing to our world in crisis.

Letty M. Russell