Alan Macfarlane Quotes, Eye Quotes, Science Quotes

We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air, the substance is almost invisible to us. To use a metaphor drawn from glass, it may be revealing for us to re-focus, to stop looking through glass, and let our eyes dwell on it for a moment to contemplate its wonder.

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Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Lying Quotes , Eye Quotes

No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Eye Quotes , Frozen Quotes

There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Humorous Quotes , Eye Quotes

Milk-livered man, That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs; Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning Thine honor from thy suffering; [that not know'st Fools do those villains pity who are punished Ere they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum? France spreads his banners in our noiseless land, With plumed helm thy state begins to threat, Whilst thou, a moral fool, sits still and cries 'Alack, why does he so?']

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Eye Quotes , Blow Quotes

The present eye praises the present object.

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To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Eye Quotes , Creative Quotes

Not 'Revelation'-'tis that waits/ But our unfurnished eyes

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Eye Quotes , Waiting Quotes

O no, thy love though much, is not so great, It is my love that keeps mine eye awake, Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, To play the watchman ever for thy sake. For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, From me far off, with others all too near.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Eye Quotes

But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all through, and none of the longest. Small blame to us if we give our whole hearts to this glowing bride of ours, to the appetities, to honour, to the hungry curiosity of the mind, to the pleasure of the eyes in nature, and the pride of our own nimble bodies.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Death Quotes , Eye Quotes

Only when a man sees this universe as God does the veil fall from his eyes; then that man, purified and cleansed, finds his whole vision changed.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Fall Quotes , Eye Quotes

Tis not your work, but Love's. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made those eyes Darker than the darkest pansies, and that hair More black than ashbuds in the front of March.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Eye Quotes , Artist Quotes

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

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