Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kingsley

Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof.

Charles Churchill

In the first seat, in robe of various dyes, A noble wildness flashing from his eyes, Sat Shakespeare: in one hand a wand he bore, For mighty wonders fam'd in days of yore: The other held a globe, which to his will Obedient turn'd, and own'd the master's skill: Things of the noblest kind his genius drew, And look'd through nature at a single view: A loose he gave to his unbounded soul, And taught new lands to rise, new seas to roll; Call'd into being scenes unknown before, And passing nature's bounds, was something more.

Charles Colson

Repentance is replete with radical implications for a fundamental change of mind not only turns us from the sinful past, but also transforms our life plan, ethics, and actions as we begin to see the world through God's eyes rather than ours. That kind of transformation requires the ultimate surrender of self.

Charles Darwin

About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder.

Charles Darwin

When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei [the voice of the people is the voice of God], as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science.

Charles Darwin

The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible by us, - that the Gospels cannot be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events, - that they differ in many important details, far too important as it seemed to me to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eye-witnesses; - by such reflections as these... I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation.

Charles Darwin

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

Charles Babbage

Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.

Brad Wilkerson

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I find it's often in huge tits, too.

Bonnie Raitt

I'll close my eyes, so I won't see, all of the love that you don't feel for me.

Arthur Smith

My eyebrows could do with a trim.

Arthur Symons

It is in their eyes that their magic resides.

Arthur Symons

But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

Arthur Schopenhauer

To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

Aristophanes

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

Antonio Porchia

I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.

Antonio Porchia

If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.

Antonio Porchia

Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.

Antonin Scalia

Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race. That concept is alien to the Constitution's focus upon the individual. ...To pursue the concept of racial entitlement - even for the most admirable and benign of purposes - is to reinforce and preserve for future mischief the way of thinking that produced race slavery, race privilege and race hatred. In the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is American.

Antonin Scalia

In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.

Bruce Lee

Never take your eyes off your opponent... even when you bow...

Bruce Bartlett

So I think we shouldn't be overly concerned about the decline in personal saving at this particular moment and time, but it's something we certainly need to keep an eye on.

Broderick Crawford

I have a jaundiced eye but a young mind.

Edwin Arnold

Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind; Veil upon veil will lift but there must be Veil upon veil behind.

Edmund Morris

Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.

Edmund Morris

I’m aware of the- the fact that people elsewhere in the world think differently from us. I can sort of see us, us Americans with their eyes. And not all that I see is- is attractive. I see an insular people who are- are insensitive to foreign sensibilities, who are lazy, obese, complacent and increasingly perplexed as to why we are losing our place in the world to people who are more dynamic than us and more disciplined

Edmund Spenser

I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.

Edmund Spenser

Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

Edmund Spenser

For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.

Edmund Burke

But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.