#eyes

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune? ↗

— Elias Canetti

#disaster #even #every #eyes #into

She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#influence #life #world #youth #life

I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#comes #eyes #gone #i #lot

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#attitude #baptists #because #believe #between

Michael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him. ↗

— Jeff Zucker

#eyes #him #jackson #michael #michael jackson

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. ↗

— Willa Cather

#afar #always #being #church #coming

The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas. ↗

— Neil Cavuto

#drinks #eyes #forgot #getting #girl

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#although #appeared #avert #could #countenance

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#everything #eyes #fix #make #perfection

The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#clearly #copy #course #disparaging #eyes