Top 100 Sayings About Our Eyes
#1. God does not have hands, we do. Our hands are God's. It is up to us what God will see and hear, up to us, what God will do. Humanity is the organ of consciousness of the universe ... Without our eyes the Holy One of Being would be blind.
Lawrence Kushner
#2. The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.
Robert Brustein
#3. A poem does not exist in and of itself but instead exists only in relation to the human being, Wilhelm wrote to Savigny, just as the sun in effect does not shine when we have our eyes closed.
Ann Schmiesing
#4. Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
#5. Every day from the crack of dawn," he said- and i completed the rest, "until we can't keep our eyes open one second longer
James Patterson
#6. There are things we see with our eyes, sitting high and looking out. And there are things we see with our hearts, sitting still and looking in.
Philip Gulley
#7. Living is hard. And every day our feet get heavier and we pick up more baggage. So, we stop and take a breath, close our eyes, reset our minds. It's natural. As lond as you open your eyes and keep going.
Cora Carmack
#8. Eighty percent of the information we receive comes through our eyes. And if you compare light energy to musical scales, it would only be one octave that the naked eye can see, which is right in the middle.
Louis Schwartzberg
#9. Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#10. Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.
Therese Of Lisieux
#11. Our eyes connect on a different level. The world becomes small.
No Scott.
No shower.
No rush of water or nakedness.
Just me. Just him. Just us. - Rose
Krista Ritchie
#12. In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.
Armstrong Williams
#13. Hope gives us the ability to open our eyes and think, belief takes us through the valleys and faith directs us straight to the place of seeing the unseen.
Euginia Herlihy
#14. God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut
Alexander Graham Bell
#15. Sometimes we remember onlywhen we see the pass, and the pass is remember when our eyes are open
Pedro
#16. The world is abundant with food for us, and with everything we need, if only we just open our eyes. There's so much food that gets thrown out or never harvested.
Alix Kates Shulman
#17. Tears water our eyes.
"Remember," mom soothes, "like the beautiful blooms beneath the weeds, Nana is still Nana underneath.
Kathryn Harrison
#18. We don't see the truth with our eyes, we see the truth with our heart.
Kate McGahan
#19. What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears ... as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#21. Lift up our eyes to you?
no, God, we stare and stare,
upon a nearer thing
that greets us here,
Death, violent and near.
Hilda Doolittle
#22. Our eyes see only that which language can explain, but our hearts see that which is invisible and unexplainable.
Debasish Mridha
#23. We need to set our affections on one good man and keep him constantly before our eyes, so that we may live as if he were watching us and do everything as if he saw what we were doing.
Epicurus
#24. We must look at the past with our eyes in the future.
Daniel Marques
#25. We learned not to meet anymore,
We don't raise our eyes to one another,
But we ourselves won't guarantee
What could happen to us in an hour.
Anna Akhmatova
#26. Let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus.
Various
#27. Losses are always great eye openers. Pleasures never open our eyes. It's only through pain that we learn our weaknesses.
Swami Satchidananda
#28. Children, meditation is not just sitting with our eyes closed. We should take every action as worship. We should be able to experience His presence everywhere.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#29. The shadows of the room pool in the lines of our faces, draining our eyes of hue. There's nothing left worth saying.
Isaac Marion
#30. [W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.
Joseph Hall
#31. The soul is the birthless, deathless, changeless part of us - the part of us that looks out from behind our eyes and has no form.
Wayne Dyer
#32. How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me,
my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running.
So many times we have seen the morning star burn, kissing our eyes,
and over our heads the grey light unwinds in turning fans.
Pablo Neruda
#33. We kiss with our eyes closed but our senses open, infusing the spaces between with the elements of the other.
A.J. Compton
#34. My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.
Muhammad Yunus
#35. No one will make progress with God until our eyes are lifted to the faithfulness of God and we stop looking at ourselves!
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#36. We cannot keep our eyes focused on Jesus while our greed lusts for worldly security. We may go through the motions, but eventually the misplaced priority of worldliness will corrode the soul's joy.
Tony Reinke
#37. We cannot see the beauty of life with our eyes closed. Only when we cry with our eyes open can we begin to shed tears of joy.
Tehya Sky
#38. We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
Thomas Hardy
#39. If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.
Frederick Buechner
#40. Even before our eyes had connected, my soul recognized hers,
S. Nelson
#41. As our eyes age, they have a tougher and tougher time adjusting to rapid changes in lighting, and we need to be aware of this.
Robert James Thomson
#42. I hope our eyes gleam once all our crap clicks into place.
Lee Klein
#43. I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch for trees and flowers, however poetic that may be, but looking passionately and egocentrically out of our eyes.
Brenda Ueland
#44. With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.
Ronald Reagan
#45. Development is where my heart is focused because eating is the only thing that we do that involves all the senses. We eat with our eyes and our ears and our noses.
Heston Blumenthal
#46. I love you." I paused, taking a deep breath and our eyes locked. I saw the world in his gaze. I saw our future. "And that is forever.
J. Lynn
#47. This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.
Elizabeth I
#48. Anything that can be done to a rat can be done to a human being. And we can do most anything to rats. This is a hard thing to think about, but it's the truth. It won't go away because we cover our eyes. THAT is cyberpunk.
Bruce Sterling
#49. Make use of radio, TV and films discriminatively; only for programs that will enhance our knowledge and culture. Television is tele-visham (tele-poison, in Malayalam). If we are not careful, it can corrupt our culture, damage our eyes and drain away our time.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#50. On the way back down the road, he passes me in his car, our eyes meet for just a second and he smiles at me.
Paula Hawkins
#51. Our favorite games were killing.
Our favorite books were death.
It had been beaten into us:
God is love.
Not the parched face and gnarled
capes across a stick body; jittering
in the nude sky, we couldn't see
trying to touch us
for the blood in our eyes.
Joseph Bathanti
#52. We lose our way around the Bible when we take our eyes off the Cross.
Alistair Begg
#53. We blocked out all loud noise, all hurts.
I continued loving Ms. Jennings until our eyes faded to rest.
And then I loved her in my dreams.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#54. I came to give you life, real life, my life. We will come and live our life inside you, so that you begin to see with our eyes, and hear with our ears, and touch with our hands, and think like we do. But we will never force that union on you. If
Wm. Paul Young
#55. We need only to close our eyes and we are back on the Third Line, walking up the lane, through the yard and entering the bright, warm kitchen. We are home again.
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
#56. I did not believe in god, but I was beginning to believe in miracles, miracles and whatever is the opposite of miracles, terrible wonders. Yes, this life is a whirlwind, and what can guide us through it? Not our eyes, not our ears, not our brain. What difference does it make what we believe?
David Gordon
#57. It is the final person we see reflected in our eyes that really matters; we wonder who is she and why is she here? To find ourselves truly, it is the goal we have all set for ourselves.
Michelle Shen
#58. We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.
Milan Kundera
#59. ...in our own hearts we trust for our salvation, in the men that
surround us, in the sights that fill our eyes, in the sounds
that fill our ears, and in the air that fill our lungs.
Joseph Conrad
#60. Madness is forever! We even smell different, our hearts don't beat, they tick, our eyes are different, we don't just see, we also pick up vibes. We are probably dehumanised and way past our 'sell by' date, totally unusable, bitter as lemons.
Stephen Richards
#61. We have to unclasp our palms and let go of every alternate reality where we're happier, stronger, brighter because of all the things we did differently. Those universes do not exist. But ours does. And it's okay here, if we open our eyes up and let it be.
Heidi Priebe
#62. Death is a door. When we close our eyes in this life, we will open our eyes to Jesus.
Anne Graham Lotz
#63. A blessing in disguise, is right before our eyes. But since it is in disguise, we don't know that it's there.
Lil' Wayne
#64. When our eyes are set on eternity, the news that someone has come to know the Savior means a great deal more than the news of a salary raise or the prospect of getting the latest high-tech gadget.
Randy Alcorn
#65. All that passes under our eyes proves that we do not live in a peaceful and harmonious world.
Francois Mitterrand
#66. What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
Laurie Lee
#67. When our eyes made contact it was like being slapped, I just wanted to recoil
Kate Le Vann
#68. WE DO NOT SEE with our eyes. We see with our brains.
John Medina
#69. It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes.
Alain De Botton
#70. We'd had a hundred conversations with our eyes, with our senses, with our hands and movements, with not a word spoken.
Shelly Crane
#71. It is never prudent to bury our heads in the sand when in distress or faced with adversity; to place our hands over our eyes in a feeble attempt to hide from the inevitable.
Carlos Wallace
#72. Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#73. The hard surface of the stone is impervious to nothing in the end. The heat of the sun leaves evidence of daylight. Each drop of rain changes the form; even the wind and the air itself, invisible to our eyes, etches its presence. ... All history is taken in by stones.
Susan Griffin
#74. Having once adopted us and enlightened our minds by his Word, he keeps the torch of the Word blazing before our eyes, that we may in faith keep our minds upon the judgment and punishment of evil which the impious confidently ignore.
John Calvin
#75. What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it looks at itself with our eyes.
Reginald Horace Blyth
#76. And I would stop and take you in, all of you, and when our eyes lock we'd just stare into each other's souls and all of the lost time would come out in the shape of a big smile, a few tears and a tight hug that feels like ...
I don't know, it would feel like home.
Morgan Parker
#77. When God gives us a mission, it must not be polluted by a desire for approval from society. We must keep our eyes on Christ, who is our Judge and Deliverer.
Tyndale
#78. It's the pressing on toward the goal that is important, not simply trying to look perfect or be perfect. And it's also important to forget what is behind us, because we cannot change our pasts. We can, however, look forward and fix our eyes on Jesus as we listen to His direction.
Michelle Anthony
#79. True worship comes when we learn to close our eyes and focus only on Him.
Joel Balin
#80. Current levels of Pentagon spending may not be able to support current defense strategy. The answer to this problem is right before our eyes: cut the money and change the strategy. That would be acting in the name of a conception of national security that was truly strategic.
William Hartung
#81. Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.
Le Corbusier
#82. What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
Wallace Stevens
#83. Satan's most effective weapon is to take our eyes off of what God has declared over us in the gospel.
J.D. Greear
#84. How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real.
Jaden Smith
#85. Blind folk see the fairies. Oh, better far than we, Who miss the shining of their wings Because our eyes are filled with things We do not wish to see.
Rose Fyleman
#86. Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#87. As a product of history and faith, Jewish Americans have helped to open our eyes to injustice, to people in need, and to the simple idea that we ought to recognize ourselves in the struggle of our fellow men and women.
Barack Obama
#88. In fact, had it been given to our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the concsciences of others, we should be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, than according to what he thinks.
Victor Hugo
#89. The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
Luc De Clapiers
#90. Injustice alway captures the attention of the young," she said. "But as we get older we discover how difficult it is to change the world, and we learn to turn our eyes away from what we can't fix until we no longer see injustice at all.
Trudi Canavan
#91. We human beings often see only what is before our eyes. But God in His infinite justice searches the heart and our secret motives and manifests accordingly to us His mercy.
Robert K. Massie
#92. Therefore, while our eyes wait to see the destined final day, we must call no one happy who is of mortal race, until he has crossed life's border, free from pain.
Sophocles
#93. There is treasure buried in the field of every one of our days, even the bleakest or dullest, and it is our business, as we journey, to keep our eyes peeled for it.
Frederick Buechner
#94. All the eyes of God are looking through all the stars, or looking at the stars through our eyes. There's only the eye of God everywhere, seeing and being in perfection always.
Frederick Lenz
#95. Love is a time-honored way to transcend the separate-self sense and leap into the sublime; Treya and I held hands, closed our eyes, and jumped.
Ken Wilber
#96. We don't see the life after life as it truly is, because in our eyes it conforms to our mechanics of nature.
Scott Lynch
#97. When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.
Charles Stanley
#98. As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.
James E. Faust
#99. And then something truly bizarre happened. I could feel his touch through our eyes. I couldn't look away from him.
P.C. Cast
#100. Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom.
Rainer Maria Rilke
