#eye

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

#beauty #beholder #children #eye #eye of the beholder

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#ease #everywhere #exists #flesh #honour

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#asks #creates #empathy #eyes #fiction

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#attempting #blessed #destiny #eye #flinching

Faith is in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Tilda Swinton

#eye #eye of the beholder #faith

I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#automatically #boss #choose #different #eye

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one. ↗

— Herbert Bayard Swope

#eye #first #forget #give #last

Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as "deficits as far as the eye can see." But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk? ↗

— Karl Rove

#adds #as far as #budget #bush #debt

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#eyesight #fallen #faulty #four #life

No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#because #economic #economic system #empowered #enterprise