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Quotes About Eyes

Ocean people are different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes....Sometimes ocean people are given to understand the newness and oldness of the world; then all morning they try to keep that boundless joy like a little sun inside their chests. The ocean also makes its people know immensity.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
Soft grey ghosts crawl up my sleeve to peer into my eyes while I within deny their threats and answer them with lies. Mushlike memories perform a ritual on my lips I lie in stolid hopelessness and they lay my soul in strips.
~ Maya Angelou
Your eyes are green, too," she muttered. Alaric's scowl turned into a look of concern. "Are you sure you didn't suffer a blow to the head you didn't tell me about?
~ Maya Banks
You gazed into my eyes, what could I do but linger? I ran my hand through your hair, and a cootie bit my finger.
~ Meg Cabot
I was listening, the king said, aggrieved. I closed my eyes to listen better. What did you hear? I'm not sure, he said. That's why I was listening so closely. I may have to ask the baron to repeat some parts of his report on his grain tax. I am sure you can arrange an appointment. I am sure I can too.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
The queen had passed him, so close he'd felt the stir of air, and he guessed that if she had turned her head, only a little, and met his eyes, he might have died right there.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
The Magus must had eyes like a thief because he told Pol to stop and dismount to walk alongside me, one hand resting just above my knee ready to shake me if I fell asleep. He shook hard and resorted to pinching periodically.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
Alice in Wonderland, Alice down the rabbit hole, Alice out in Cyberspace, flung along the lines of data, flying across fields of light, the night cities that live only behind her eyes.
~ Melissa Scott
Power rides her fingers, she moves from datashell to datashell, walking the nets like the ghost of a shadow, her trail vanishing behind her as she goes. She carries power in the dark behind her eyes.
~ Melissa Scott
He looked up with sharp incisive eyes. What do we need a metaphysician for? Don't tell me some rejected author has put a curse on us. Not today, Fletcher said.
~ Melissa Scott
The Aunts put their arms about one another so that their faces were cheek to cheek, and from this doublehead they gazed up at Steerpike with a row of four equidistant eyes. There was no reason why there should not have been forty, or four hundred of them. It so happened that only four had been removed from a dead and endless frieze whose inexhaustible and repetitive theme was forever, eyes, eyes, eyes.
~ Mervyn Peake
Zijn mooie, matte ogen, van een donkere en onbestemde kleur, leken op viooltjes die de last van de dikke tranen van het onweer nog dragen (...)
~ Baudelaire
Quando conhecemos o amor, quando amamos, é possível enxergar o passado com outros olhos; é possível transformar o presente e sonhar o futuro. Esse é o poder do amor. O amor cura. - art. Vivendo de Amor p.(12)
~ bell hooks
I do understand that you can look into someone's eyes,' I heard myself saying, 'and suddenly know that life will be impossible without them. Know that their voice can make your heart miss a beat and that their company is all your happiness can ever desire and that their absence will leave your soul alone, bereft and lost.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Ogni occhiata perduta, per uno che viveva di sguardi, era una perdita irrimediabile.
~ Bernard Malamud
two brown eyes that seemed trapped in a spider web of weary lines.
~ Beryl Markham
O, Lord, help me to lift my eyes and look to the heavens and acknowledge who created all these. You bring out the starry host one by one, and call each of them by name. Because of Your great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing. (Isa. 40:26)
~ Beth Moore
In Psalm 51:1, King David cried out, "Have mercy on me, O God, / according to your unfailing love." Please receive this truth: God cannot be unbiased toward you. He cannot set His love for you aside and make an objective decision. Once you become God's covenant child, He cannot see you through anything less than a loving Father's eyes.
~ Beth Moore
How beautiful you are, my darling. How very beautiful! Behind your veil, your eyes are like doves. Song of Songs 4:1
~ Beth Moore
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
I'm self-taught, and fake eyelashes definitely took the longest to master. I glued my eyes shut at least 15 times.
~ James Charles
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
~ Helen Keller
I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
~ Mallory Jansen
Closing one's eyes is not a recipe for peace. It is a simple way to embolden aggressive personalities.
~ Andrzej Duda