Before Their Eyes Quotes
22 quotes by 20 authors
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If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?
— Euripides
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And you want to know why track and field is dying in this country? Kids today can watch Kobe Bryant go end-to-end and Randy Moss…
— Mike Penner
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[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away…
— Benjamin Franklin
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I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For…
— Michel Foucault
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What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and…
— Moshe Dayan
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He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.
— Leopold von Ranke
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It's daylight, the sky is cloudy, and human beings believe that beyond the clouds lives an all-powerful God, guiding the fate of men. Meanwhile, look…
— Paulo Coelho
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This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part of…
— Robert Hooke
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I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their…
— Bayard Taylor
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The best gift you can ever give your mentor is to grow. They feed off your growth. I believe that everyone has the seed of…
— John C. Maxwell
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The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating…
— Danica McKellar
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I knew people were going to see me see deteriorate before their eyes.
— Arlen Specter
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I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in…
— William Tyndale
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People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach a painting in…
— Charles de Lint
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The boy, who did everything well and with a natural unslumped grace the wraith himself had always lacked, and whom the wraith had been so…
— David Foster Wallace
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So much does the moral health depend upon the moral atmosphere that is breathed, and so great is the influence daily exercised by parents over…
— Samuel Smiles
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto…
— Bible
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People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better…
— W G Sebald
Who Wrote These Before Their Eyes Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 22 Before Their Eyes Quotes as follows: