#behold

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Stephen King

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Faith is in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Tilda Swinton

#eye #eye of the beholder #faith

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. ↗

— James Bryant Conant

#his #makes #neck #only #out

It's great to watch someone get the most out of what they can do, whether they're a beautiful performer or just a really gritty performer. It's something to behold. ↗

— John Turturro

#behold #get #great #gritty #just

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril. ↗

— Lucretius

#encounters #great #over #part #peril

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Oliver Platt

#beholder #eye #eye of the beholder

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#behold #brave #brave man #conflict #direct

Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist. ↗

— Alfred Sisley

#beholder #craft #highest #his #loveliness

...as I already said, they didn't look like much--but beauty's in the eye of the beholder, isn't it? ↗

— Kate Morton

#beholder #eye #beauty

I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#backbone #behold #characters #enough #given