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Quotes About Behold

When I finished my bowl, without thinking, I dipped my finger in the glaze that had accumulated and Roland licked it right off my finger, ravenous. "quite a sight." Mary finally said, and I felt like maybe she was sincere, that we were something to behold.
~ Kevin Wilson
It's wrong for a state to turn its people into monsters, even to secure ourselves, bacause we draw the line at becoming what we behold
~ Kirsten Beyer
Every once in a very long while, Lord Tywin Lannister would actually threaten to smile; he never did, but the threat alone was terrible to behold.
~ George R.R. Martin
No stonger allies no greater friends no bigger fighters of honor could a king behould then these assembled afore me mine brothers mine blood
~ J.R. Ward
My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.
~ Raoul Dufy
My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.
~ Rumi
The difference between the Old and the New Testament is the difference between a man who said "There is nothing new under the sun" and a God who says "Behold, I make all things new.
~ Ronald Knox
yours and those of others—is to change the way you behold them.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Mortality, behold, and fear, What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones,
~ Cassandra Clare
even upon the shore, where their fellows might behold this horrible spectacle from the sea.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Behold a fire from the opposite shore.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.
~ Walt Whitman
Rabindranath Tagore: I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
Behold the gates of mercy in arbitrary space.
~ Leonard Cohen
Just look at it!
~ Jeanne DuPrau
For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.
~ William Shakespeare
The world rolls and somewhere out there are things I don't know. Let us sleep on God and mystery, a quiet, fragile ship floating on the sea, behold sleep.
~ Clarice Lispector
A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.
~ Terry Teachout
Truly I am in a sacred cosmic womb, a place where everything is born, and it is my sweet luck to behold its living core. My hands naturally come together in reverent worship.
~ Yann Martel
Start not—nor deem my spirit fled: In me behold the only skull From which, unlike a living head, Whatever flows is never dull.
~ Lord Byron
I understand; you mean that he will be a ruler in the city of which we are the founders, and which exists in idea only; for I do not believe that there is such an one anywhere on earth? In heaven, I replied, there is laid up a pattern of it, methinks, which he who desires may behold, and beholding, may set his own house in order. But whether such an one exists, or ever will exist in fact, is no matter; for he will live after the manner of that city, having nothing to do with any other.
~ Plato
May the Irish hills caress you. May her lakes and rivers bless you. May the luck of the Irish enfold you. May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.
~ Irish blessing
naked eye."*
~ Dan Gutman
Come hither, all ye empty things,/Ye bubbles raised by breath of kings;/Who float upon the tide of state,/Come hither, and behold your fate.
~ Louise Penny