Contentment Quote by George Eliot

“as I delved deeper into the subject, it was more than the eyes—it was what was behind the eyes, in the brain, wanting to…

— V.C. Andrews

“It was like a new kind of vision, seeing with eyes as keen as scalpel blades, that cut away desires and emotions and wishful…

— Marcus Sedgwick

“And if you had the right sort of mind, the sort of mind that actually sees what it looks at, you might notice that…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“He must have given up on image making because his eyes had failed to see something they had yearned for; his mind had failed…

— Josip Novakovich

“The human mind was just bad at seeing things it did not expect to see, and a bit too eager to see what it…

— Michael Lewis

“It's the mind that sees, not eyes.”

— Toba Beta

“They frowned, looked to one another with shallow and delighted eyes, eyes that just skimmed over the surface of things without understanding.”

— Alice McDermott

“She averted his eyes, but not before he recognized the pain in them, a tormented and languished gaze, a stare preserved for people who…

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

“Petty mindedness instructs eyes to see everything from an unappropriate standpoint, beautifulness could be looked otherwise.”

— Toba Beta

“She held out her hand, like a man. He hesitated, then took the hand and shook it. It was very warm. You could not…

— Peter Carey

“The eyes, too, were reptilelike in glint and gaze. Yet at that instant, humbled and alert in their look, they were lit by one…

— James Joyce

“If just looking could be so satisfying, why was I always striving to have things or to get things done? Certainly I had never…

— Marion Milner