Best simple & eye Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast.”

Eye Order Courses Simple Clear Benefits Exposed Contrast

Author:Samuel Beckett

“Being blind is as simple as closing your eyes. The blind don't act any different than you or I. You never see a blind person going around saying, 'I'm blind.' So if you want to play blind just close your eyes and keep them closed and fare thee well.”

Ifs Want Wells Persons Different Play Eye Simple Blind Thee Closing Closing Your Eyes Blind Person

Author:Morgan Freeman

“How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the necessary instrument of it, we shall clearly perceive on remembering the comparative force with which simple ideas are communicated by signs. To say, "Leave the room," is less expressive than to point to the door. Place a finger on the lips is more forcible than whispering, "Do not speak." A beck of the hand is better than, "Come here." No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.”

Source: Essays: Moral, Political and Aesthetic

“Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.”

Enough Eye Running Simple Sun Feet Stones Grass Shade Minnows

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.”

Eye Literature Simple Forever Expression Victory Despair Hatred Excitement

Book:Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches

Source: Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches

“To impress your offer on the mind of the reader or listener, it is necessary to put it into brief, simple language...No farfetched or obscure statement will stop them. You have got to hit them where they live in the heart or in the head. You have got to catch their eyes or ears with something simple, something direct, something they want.”

Want Mind Heart Eye Language Simple Reader Offers Direct Ears Statements Listeners Impress Obscure

Author:John Caples

“I have always stressed to my girls that outer beauty fades but inner beauty lasts forever. Simple things like smiling and looking people in the eye could change someone's bad day into a good one. My mom always said that beauty is as beauty does, and I'm sure it will pass along to all the future generations of our family.”

People Doe Said Eye Lasts Girl Simple Forever Generations Mom My Mom Our Family Fades Inner Beauty Future Generation Bad Day Stressed Simple Things My Girl Beauty Fades Outer Beauty

Author:Tina Knowles

“It's quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. [Fr., Il est tres simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.]”

Heart Eye Simple Essentials Invisible

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays. A fine style gives the view of fancy--its figures, its trees, or its palaces,--without a spot.”

Giving Doe Eye Simple Forget Views Tree Style Figures Fine Pure Window Spots Landscape Fancy Display Observers Palaces

Book:Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

“S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth of invention: At night when your soldiers are praying ceaselessly for less rain and more underwear my soldiers make underwear out of rain. These poems seesaw between despair and delight but delight is winning the battle. Smith is a somersaulting tightrope walker of a poet and her poems will make you look at anything and everything with new eyes: For days I tried to rub the new freckle // off my hand until I realized what it was / and began to grant it its sovereignty.”

“Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.”

“I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again.”

People Ifs Hands Eye Nature Simple Beauty Buried Nature Beauty

Book:Poems and prose

Source: Poems and prose

“While criticism or fear of punishment may restrain us from doing wrong, it does not make us wish to do right. Disregarding this simple fact is the great error into which parents and educators fall when they rely on these negative means of correction. The only effective discipline is self-discipline, motivated by the inner desire to act meritoriously in order to do well in one's own eyes, according to one's own values, so that one may feel good about oneself may "have a good conscience.”

“We only need to open our eyes to see the gifts that abound all around us. These are the simple joys in life.”

Needs Eye Joy Simple Simple Joys

Author:Genevieve

“He is the real Guru Who can reveal the form of the formless before your eyes; who teaches the simple path, without rites or ceremonies; Who does not make you close your doors, and hold your breath, and renounce the world; Who makes you perceive the Supreme Spirit whenever the mind attaches itself; Who teaches you to be still in the midst of all your activities. Fearless, always immersed in bliss, he keeps the spirit of yoga in the midst of enjoyments.”

World Mind Doe Stills Real Eye Form Spirit Simple Teach Path Doors Activity Yoga Breaths Supreme Fearless Perceive Bliss Enjoyment Midst Ceremony Guru Renounce Rite

Author:Kabir

“There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years--the language of the soul, told through the eye.”

Years Soul Eye Asks Language Simple Discipline Weary Through The Eyes

Book:The western home: and other poems

Source: The western home: and other poems

“Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances; simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we can't necessarily go ahead and make everything fit into neat, controllable, simple schedules. But the point is, simplicity is: how do we keep our eyes fixed and focused on Christ, no matter where we are?”

Children Matter Eye Christ Simple Focus Fit Circumstances Our Children Simplicity Focused Fixed Midst Schedules Neat

Author:Ann Voskamp

“I'm finding that knocking at their mindsets is hard work. A simple knock will not make it crawl. I was trying to push it. I was trying to find a bird's eye view where I could find a big solution. So this is what I was trying.”

Trying Hard Bigs Eye Simple Views Hard Work Findings Solutions Bird Mindset Knocking

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I have had people come to me on crutches, with tears in their eyes, to bless this beneficient institution. In all my experiences of life, I have seen nothing so seraphic as the look that comes into a freshly mutilated man's face when he feels in his vest pocket with his remaining hand and finds his accident ticket all right.”

People Men Feels Looks Hands Eye Faces Simple Poverty Tears Broken Institutions Legs Accidents Pockets Bless Tickets Affluence Crutches Boon Vests Broken Leg

Book:Mark Twain Speaking

Source: Mark Twain Speaking

“Complicated things for me tend not to be interesting. Simple things, like when it's really direct eye contact, or when you see a really beautiful shape, like when it's clean or well balanced in the frame.”

Wells Eye Beautiful Simple Interesting Shapes Direct Clean Complicated Contact Balanced Simple Things Really Beautiful Eye Contact Complicated Things

Author:Russell James

“For the sake of sanity, the brain and the eyes keep things simple. But take away the sense of sight and suddenly things are not so simple.”

Eye Simple Brain Sight Sake Sanity

Author:Olafur Eliasson

“I think we all understand disappointing yourself. Especially in the acting profession, which is probably similar to a political career, even the most stable, head-on-straight person is still going to be confronted with doing something that they shouldn't, that could affect their job or cause them not to be at their best - even if it's something as simple as taking a red eye for an audition at 6 a.m. the next morning and you know you'll be dragging.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Persons Stills Eye Jobs Political Next Causes Simple Acting Careers Morning Red Profession Stable Auditions Disappointing Red Eye

Author:Corey Stoll

“I know that my work in this case is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels. We know their names. They number a thousand for each one of the red ribbons that we wear here tonight. They finally rest in the warm embrace of the gracious creator of us all. A healing embrace that cools their fevers, that clears their skin, and allows their eyes to see the simple, self-evident, common sense truth that is made manifest by the benevolent creator of us all...”

Knows Made Self Facts Eye Names Heaven Simple Numbers Healing Cases Streets Thousand Angel Red Skins Embrace Creator Warm Tonight Manifest Evident Crowded Fever Gracious Benevolent Ribbons Red Ribbon

Author:Tom Hanks

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