#eyes

...eyes that, like those of children, look at an eternal present without forgiveness. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#eternity #eyes #forgiveness #forgiveness

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become. ↗

— Brooke Foss Westcott

#cowards #crisis #eyes #great #grow

The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself. ↗

— Stanisław Lem

#size #respect

I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#close #eyes #i #often #tolerate

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. ↗

— Mark Twain

#depend #eyes #focus #out #you

When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#could #dicaprio #eyes #had #i

The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago. ↗

— Boris Becker

#blind #cup #davis #davis cup #emotions

A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#fixed #half #hearts #her #hundred

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#eyes #i #me #need #quotations

But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked. ↗

— Michael Behe

#any #biochemical #comparison #comparisons #complex