"I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow."
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"Everything that we think comes across in our eyes. Our eyes really are the windows to our souls, and that's why at least I can tell when somebody doesn't mean what they're saying - if you just look at them in the eye."
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"I am very grateful to God everyday that my eyes flutter open and I can jump out of that bed!"
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"Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye"
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"One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand."
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"The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes."
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"Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be."
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"Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre."
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"It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must be improved in ten different ways at once. And the improbability of any complex organ being produced and brought to perfection in any such way is an improbability of the same kind and degree as that of producing a poem or a mathematical demonstration by throwing letters at random on a table."
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"You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other people's eyes; then, slowly, you agreed with their opinion of you."
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"(As a boy) I was listening to Sonny Boy Williamson's (I) records and I would close my eyes and I could visualize myself playing the harp."
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"When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile."
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"Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear."
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"The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is to find that Buddha consciousness within and live out of that, instead of the interests of the eyes and ears."
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"It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed."
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"Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life."
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"Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part."
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"Yes, would to God that I could persuade the rich and the mighty that they would permit the whole Bible to be painted on houses, on the inside and the outside, so that all can see it. That would be a Christian work... If it is not a sin but good to have the image of Christ in my heart, why should it be a sin to have it in my eyes? This is especially true since the heart is more important than the eyes, and should be less stained by sin because it is the true abode and dwelling place of God."
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"I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be."
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"I wish that we could look into each other's faces, in each other's eyes, and see our own selves. I hope that the children have not been so scarred by their upbringing that they only think fear when they see someone else who looks separate from them."
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