Quotes about eye
eye europe culture
To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the ancienne cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial, old as the hills. But the cookbook record proves that the haute cuisine codified early in this century by Escoffier barely goes back to Napoleon's time. Before that, French food is not recognizable as French to modern eyes. Europe's menu before 1700 was completely different from its menu after 1800, when national cuisines arose along with modern nations and national cultures.
eye secret influence
true influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes...the secret smile in the eyes of a friend Thornton Wilder
eye offending opposites
It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization is as odious as it is unjust. It is absolutely the opposite of what it should be, and it is necessary that a revolution should be made in it. The contrast of affluence and wretchedness continually meeting and offending the eye, is like dead and living bodies chained together Thomas Paine
eye ears language
I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes. Thomas Paine
eye drawing done
Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What? Thomas Hood
eye may facts
To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen. Thomas Huxley
eye sight space
... our "Physick" and "Anatomy" have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time and space, have grappled, not unsuccessfully, with such complex problems, that the eyes of Vesalius and of Harvey might be dazzled by the sight of the tree that has grown out of their grain of mustard seed. Thomas Huxley
eye brain limits
Strain your brain more than your eye... You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect. Thomas Eakins
eye thinking brain
Strain your brain more than your eye. Thomas Eakins
eye retreat avarice
There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice. Thomas Clarkson
eye mystery blind
It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty. Thomas Browne
eye blind fortune
It is we that are blind, not fortune. Thomas Browne
eye dark water
Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear, Each secret fishy hope or fear. Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond? This life cannot be All, they swear, For how unpleasant, if it were! One may not doubt that, somehow, Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And, sure, the reverent eye must see A Purpose in Liquidity. Rupert Brooke
eye water doubt
One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in Liquidity. Rupert Brooke
eye seeing ifs
If Your Eyes Are Opened, You'll See The Things Worth Seeing. Rumi
eye littles sells
Sell Not Yourself At Little Price, Being So Precious In God's Eyes. Rumi
eye heart self
Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved. Rumi
eye body flesh
You are not your body; you are the eye. When you see the spirit, you are free of the body. A human being is an eye – the rest is just flesh and bones. Whatever your eye sees, you are that. Rumi
eye love-is men
An eye is meant to see things. The soul is here for its own joy. A head has one use: For loving a true love. Feet: To chase after. Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind, for learning what men have done and tried to do. Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why. A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed. Rumi
eye want blind
The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why. Rumi
eye heart other-worlds
When you stop admiring yourself and let the eyes of the heart open your vision to vast other worlds then all you do, will become admirable Rumi
eye doe gone
Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight, and says, I don't see anything. Rumi
eye hands staff
If you have no eyes, do not walk blindly; take a staff in your hand. If you have no staff of insight, do not walk without a guide. Rumi
eye praise criticize
What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself, by saying implicitly, My eyes are clear." Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying implicitly, "I can't see very well with my eyes so inflamed. Rumi
eye blood sorrow
You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry? Rumi
eye love-is great-love
I am so small I can hardly be seen. How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They are small, but they see enormous things. Rumi
eye use discrimination
If you do not possess the staff of caution and discrimination, use the eyes of him who sees. If there is no staff of caution and discrimination, do not wander on the road without a guide. Rumi
eye world spirit
I am so happy, I cannot be contained in the world; / But like a spirit, I am hidden from the eyes of the world. Rumi
eye order soul
Fasting blinds the body in order to open the eyes of your soul. Rumi
eye men soul
A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles. Rumi
eye world sufi-wisdom
Your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world. Rumi
eye passion world
They are the privileged lovers who create a new world with their eyes of fiery passion. Rumi
eye heart light
The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart. Rumi