Adrienne Rich Quotes, Eye Quotes, Survival Quotes

Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.

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When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye.

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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.

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Tags : Adam Johnson Quotes , Country Quotes , Eye Quotes

She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone -- She never deemed -- she hurt -- That -- is not Steel's Affair -- A vulgar grimace in the Flesh -- How ill the Creatures bear -- To Ache is human -- not polite -- The Film upon the eye Mortality's old Custom -- Just locking up -- to Die.

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Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

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Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible, and it manifests itself in the light that flows in our eyes.

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Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.

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And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner's eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Life And Love Quotes , Eye Quotes

The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.

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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Eye Quotes , Yellow Quotes

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Eye Quotes , Men Quotes

I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

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He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.

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Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

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Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

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Tags : Ada Cambridge Quotes , Pain Quotes , Eye Quotes

There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

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To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Eye Quotes , Criticism Quotes

Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.

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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

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