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Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a...

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There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Stu...

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The eye is diverted from the real business, it is caught by the spectacular action that means nothin...

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Agatha ChristieThe Mysterious Mr. Quin

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealt...

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I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I ex...

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Drink to me only with thine eyes And I will pledge with mine.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye...

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To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different di...

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Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a fir...

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My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of ...

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The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, ...

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There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly wh...

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On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the go...

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Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much ...

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Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ro...

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Leadership can change its mind leadership can open its eye. Leadership can even be replaced.

A conscious act grew out of this by the time I began writing stories: getting my distance, a prerequ...

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment the eye of the body is ...

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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole ...

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To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf,...

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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to t...

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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until...

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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm a...

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I just remember watching Federer the first year he won Wimbledon. He was struggling with his back pr...

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Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic ligh...

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Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

I can't imagine having a real personal thing, like divorce and marriage, all those things, being in ...

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

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, c...

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The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted p...

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Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that cours...

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Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something - with their eye on th...

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Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly ...

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Lords of fire and earth and water,Lords of moon and wind and sky,Come now to the Old Man's daughter,...

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Madeleine L'EngleA Swiftly Tilting Planet

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom.When indifferent, the eye takes sti...

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It does appear that some parts of our evolutionary process seem inevitable. It is striking that thro...

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Marcus du SautoyThe Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before...

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The wheel… is an extension of the foot. The book… is an extension of the eye…Clothing, an extension ...

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Marshall McLuhanThe Medium is the Massage

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to dist...

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What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they...

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And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of thi...

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She held out her hand, like a man. He hesitated, then took the hand and shook it. It was very warm. ...

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Peter CareyOscar and Lucinda

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so lit...

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Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enoug...

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The very large brain that humans have, plus the things that go along with it - language, art, scienc...

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If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand...

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People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thi...

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Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of es...

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The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ...

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Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, b...

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Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness.

I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you...

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And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.