- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eyes Quotes
What we notice, and what it says about us.
These quotes treat eyes as more than a body part, using them to talk about identity, humor, and the habit of noticing detail. One line of advice about staying observant as a writer sits comfortably next to Look quotes on the same theme.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
- Educating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been working with UNICEF Peru a lot. I am aiming to educate children, mostly because once adults reach adulthood, your views are shaped. With children, you can really teach them, you can open their eyes to what is really going on. The only way we can open their eyes and free them is by educating them.
- Mountain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mauna Kea from Hilo has a shapely aspect, for its top is broken into peaks, said to be the craters of extinct volcanoes, but my eyes seek the dome-like curve of Mauna Loa with far deeper interest, for it is as yet an unfinished mountain.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get my light eyes from my mother.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Had you met me when I was 18 I was very, very patriotic almost to the point of sounding a little bit bigoted or racist, but then I moved away, came to London, my eyes were opened and I saw the world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was told I was going undrafted. That's what I was told by everybody. I guess I wasn't good enough in everybody else's eyes.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a big part of my faith teachings is to work together towards equality: that we're all created equal, and under the eyes of God, we all have a right to freedom and to access our rights equally.
- Nov 07, 2020