Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

Sean Penn

I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone

Scoot McNairy

I guess through my learning disability, through dyslexia, I've always been a visual learner - I take in everything through my eyes.

Scarlett Thomas

What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

Les Paul

I think the most important thing about playing is to walk out with confidence, look the people right in the eye and say 'Here I am,' and go and do your thing. As soon as they know you're confident, they're confident. As long as you adjust to them you're not in trouble. You should eyeball them, find out what they want, and give it to them. They didn't pay to come out and look at the tapestries.

And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.

And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.

Mahatma Gandhi

An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.

An eye for an eye and the world goes blind.

Especially in the Spencer Lake area, keep your eyes peeled.

The response has been overwhelming. I don't have any tears left in my eyes.

As soon as you get the eyes covered, they're babies.

Oscar Wilde

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Course, you always have your eye on the furthest you can go. You look, but you don't look.

Max Mayfield

Don't just focus on the eye of the hurricane,

Don't get overextended. Keep an eye on your investment and what you owe over the next 30 to 60 days.

Vince is a natural athlete. I think he opened up a lot of eyes last summer.

Vince is a big, strong guy. I sized him up when we were at Disneyland, and he was looking eye to eye at me. He looked like he weighed as much as I did.

Warren is somebody who we've had our eye on for a very long time.

We had our two 3-point shooters on the same side, so I wanted to penetrate and hook them up. Obviously, they know who our shooters are, too. It's not a secret. Samantha and I made good eye contact, and I knew I was wide open. You have to take a wide-open three when it's right in front of you.

Marat Safin

We have eyes, and we see that not many people are interested in the sports.

Orson Scott Card

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

You do this in mid-growth, when the plant just starts showing signs of nutrient stress that the human eye is not yet able to detect.

Ernst Toller

I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.

Joanna Lumley

What's disconcerting is when you do meet them they look at you with your own eyes in a slightly different face.

What J.C. Penney needs to do is to make the stores they do have palatable, pleasant to shop, and all of this needs to be done with an eye toward recapturing the market they've lost,

Thomas Fuller

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

We kind of see through the same eyes when we're on the field.

We kind of met eyes, she said she was looking for the back post. I was wide open and it just kind of clicked, it was a perfect ball.

You have to have your eye on the prize. We've reached this point after more than 40 years of negotiating with Turkey. This is the next major step.

When you perform live you're going to have to have big screens all over the stadiums so people can see your eyes and your face. That was really well done.

Brian Cashman

You can't do this job with a GM and a manager that don't see eye to eye, that aren't on the same page, ... That's a recipe for disaster.