Top 1200 Blind Eye Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.

God's eye does not slumber. He knows every sin that is hidden from mortal eye.

Thus the creationist's favourite question "What is the use of half an eye?" Actually, this is a lightweight question, a doddle to answer. Half an eye is just 1 per cent better than 49 per cent of an eye.

The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.

A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

Take for example providing a guide dog for a blind person. That's a good thing to do, right? All right. It is a good thing to do. But you have to think what else you could do with the resources. It costs about $40,000 to train a guide dog and train the recipient so that the guide dog can be an effective help to a blind person. It costs somewhere between 20 and $50 to cure a blind person in a developing country if they have trachoma. So you do the sums, and you could provide one guide dog for one blind American or you could cure between 400 and 2,000 people of blindness.

When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way.

Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through the sense of sight. When you see without feeling, you are still partly blind; you lack the inner light that brings awareness. Awareness requires the interplay of every faculty, the use of your entire being as an eye.

To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.

One of my favorite writers is short story writer/essayist Jorge Luis Borges, who was blind. I'm not claiming to be anything remotely resembling a talent of Borges' caliber, but he is an inspiration and a proof that one can be a meaningful and successful writer while blind.

An eye for an eye.” “That's a revenge thing, right? From some play.” “The Bible, darling. The Lord of all plays.

'Ornithologists concluded that migratory birds take hundreds of naps as they fly; they also practice unilateral eye closure, in which one eye closes, thereby permitting half the brain to sleep.' Is this what happens when photographers close one eye to look through a viewfinder? If so, they might be operating with only half a brain. Perhaps that explains.

If you're making a film, you've got to have one eye to the audience and one eye to what excites you about it, and sometimes it's not the same thing.

Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.

Jim Cornette and I have never really seen eye-to-eye.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavor to keep women in the dark because, the former only want slaves, and the latter a play-thing.

Let's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye.

Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise designedThan other times when blind men into ditches led the blind,When the rich mouse ate the cheese and the poor mouse got the rind,And man, the self-destroyer, was not lucid in his mind.

Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.

'Homer and Langley' is the work of E. L. Doctorow's old age. There are fewer Homeric references than you might have expected, given that the narrator is called Homer Collyer and is blind, although, like the classical Homer, not born blind.

I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.

Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask.

Sin is to a nature what blindness is to an eye. The blindness of an evil or defect which is a witness to the fact that the eye was created to see the light and, hence, the very lack of sight is the proof that the eye was meant... to be the one particularly capable of seeing the light. Were it not for this capacity, there would be no reason to think of blindness as a misforture.

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.

I got my eye on you boy, and when I get my eye on something, it's like search and destroy.

I have a wandering eye and a lazy eye so they cancel each other out. It's a push.

I visited an asylum to observe expressions of the mentally disturbed and to get my body language right for the blind girl's role. I visited the blind school, read the autobiography of Helen Keller, and watched a number of films from 'Scent of a Woman' to 'Anurag,' 'Fanaa' and 'Black.'

The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.

But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was.

If you ask me, I think it should be an eye for an eye. On everything.

I'm a smoky eye girl. I love playing with eye colors, metallics... fun stuff!

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

I have a partner, Danny Strong; he's an incredible writer and, really, my backbone. So when we don't see eye to eye, it's painful.

I think John Landgraf sees things in the same way I do. We see eye to eye on a lot.

A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.

True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

I am visible-see this Indian face-yet I am invisible. I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot. But I exist, we exist. They'd like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven't. We haven't.

Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.

We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life. There is so much pain in the world. What does it mean to have to suffer so much, if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye?...I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing; but the eye that blinks, that is something.

Oh, my god!" I said, throwing my hands over my eyes and hurtling my body against the counter. "What?" "You're naked." "I'm not naked." "I'm blind." "You're not blind. I'm wearing pants." "Oh." That was embarrassing.

Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.

I wasn't star struck, but you know you're in the game when you're eye-to-eye with Nicki Minaj. It means you made it.

A bright eye indicates curiosity; a black eye, too much.

I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.

The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.

The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately

I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywood.

If we live according to the law "an eye for an eye...," we will never escape from the spiral of evil.

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

What I find most appalling is the Senate calls it a qualified blind trust when it's not blind. Since the Senate says it's OK, the Senate has made it a political question. It's up to the voter. But there's no doubt it's a conflict of interest.

They say that love is blind, but it's trauma that's blind. Love sees what is.

An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.

Just because we don’t see eye to eye on everything doesn’t mean we can’t be close.

The ear will surrender even at those times when the eye wants to close, when the eye doesn't want to watch.