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Eye Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
- Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous…
- The Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration.…
- I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think…
- She closed one eye and looked at me and said, "I know there is a blessing in this somewhere." It is worth living long enough…
- A narrow pond would form in the orchard, water clear as air covering grass and black leaves and fallen branches, all around it black leaves…
- Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and one…
- Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage…
- The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I've thought from time to time it was the best thing in life, that…
- There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is…
More Eye Quotes
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! — Victoria Abril
- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big… — David Attenborough
- An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. — Margaret Atwood
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. — Richard Avedon
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila