Quotes of: Human-eye Keyword

You moved my head so that it was lying in your lap. "Keep your eyes open," you said. "Stay with me." I tried. It felt like I was using every muscle in my face. But I did it. I saw you from upside down, your lips above my eyes and your eyes above my l...

Stolen: A Letter to My Captor

…he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. He wanted her to be a virgin and not a virgin all at once. He wanted to know her. Intimate secrets: Why poetry? Why so sad? Why that grayness in her eyes? Why so alone? No...

The Things They Carried

Her eyes widened. I assumed in alarm, but who the hell knew what was going on in her stubborn head. I took the coffee cup from her hand and rested it on the grass next to mine. I leaned in toward her slowly. Her eyes remained steady on mine. Just as ...

A Perfect Moment

Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad nets towards your oceanic eyes. There in the highest blaze my solitude lengthens and flames, its arms turning like a drowning man's. I send out red signals across your absent eyes that smell like the sea or t...

Pablo Neruda

Kaa: [after being hit by Bagheera] Ooh, my s-s-sinus. You have just made a s-s-s-serious mistake, my friend. A very s-s-s-stupid... Bagheera: N-n-now, Kaa, I was... Kaa: ...mis-s-stake. Look me in the eye when I'm speaking to you. Bagheera: [has one ...

The Jungle Book

Lonesome tears I can't cry them anymore I can't think of what they're for Oh they ruin me every time But I'll try to leave behind some days These tears just can't erase I don't need them anymore How could this love Ever turning Never turn its eye on ...

Beck

An ounce of cancer prevention is worth a ton of cancer cure.

A Cancer Prevention Guide for the Human Race

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

Of Human Bondage

The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting.

Human, All Too Human

Books are only half our job ; the other half is human nature.

Bright Heritage

Originality is the best form of rebellion.

Being Human: Everything you didn't want to know about life.

The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.

Blindness

Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.

Andrew O'Hagan

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

Agnes Macphail

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

Mason Cooley

Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.

Frederick Sanger

There's a point where anecdotal evidence becomes truth

Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.

The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution

To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.

Atheism: The Case Against God