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“If I ever loose my eyes, I won't have to cry no more.”

Ifs Eye Work Cry Profound

Author:Cat Stevens

“Noel Coward said work is more fun than fun, but then he didn't work in the Bird's Eye factory packing frozen fish fingers nine hours a day, did he?”

Said Eye Fun Hours Work Bird Fingers Fishes Nine Coward Factories Frozen Packing Noel

Author:Paul O'Grady

“Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.”

Want Hard Eye Faces Form Work Grace Toil Quench

Author:Walter Scott

“Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman will bring news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock and with busy pen or ringing hammer, lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance, labor on character.”

“Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.”

Men Giving Dream Eye Work Sun Wall Hot Prison Bent Toil Brazen Prison Walls

Book:Dover Beach and Other Poems

Source: Dover Beach and Other Poems

“I'm sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock.”

Eye Work Sitting Clock Cages

Author:Ray Davies

“All civilized people see the day beginning at dawn or a little after or a long time after or whatever time their work begins; this they lengthen according to their work, during what they call 'all day long'; and end it when they close their eyes. It is they who say the days are long. On the contrary, the days are round.”

People Littles Long Ends Eye Work Long Time Rounds Contrary Dawn Civilized

Author:Jean Giono

“One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.”

Thinking Hands Eye Heaven Work Creation Arms Labor Invisible Contemplation Visible Contemplating Idle Toil

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”

Eye Truth Work Ability Beauty Virtue Contact Lenses Competence Competent Beholder Eye Of The Beholder Competencies Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder Contact Lenses

Book:The Peter Principle

Source: The Peter Principle

“If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.”

Ifs Men Eye Jobs Success Literature Can Do Work Half Kings Blind Kingdoms Cynical

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me. Raise me a daïs of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.”

“It's easier to be ignorant and say I don't know about the problem. But once you know, once you've seen it in their eyes, then you have a responsibility to do something. There is strength in numbers, and if we all work together as a team, we can be unstoppable.”

Ifs Knows Problem Eye Together Work Numbers Responsibility Knowing Team Strength Easier Ignorant Working Together Teamwork Collaboration Unstoppable Columnists Strength In Numbers

Author:Craig Kielburger

“When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.”

Love Life Heart Soul Hands Eye Work Healing Steps Doors Self Esteem Creation And Love Sight Circles Self Worth Heal Esteem Mind Body Spirit

Author:Michael Bridges

“Gardeners work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection; no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better or give it a better neighbor. To other's eyes, all may look as well as could be expected, but a good gardener's eye sees more to be improved.”

Giving Wells Looks May Eye Work Vision Growing Seeing Ideals Perfection Expected Neighbor Improvement Awe Gardener

Author:Robin Lane Fox