Ephrem the Syrian Quotes

Like the apple of Thine eye preserve me, O Lord God; defend me and beneath Thy wings shelter me from temptations.

Ephrem the Syrian

• Eye
• Wings
• Apple
• Temptations
• Lord God

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• Google's founders have had a good eye for imagining what technologies will be significant in the near future. No one asked Google to develop self-driving cars, but it helped them with street views for Google Maps.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Good
  • Future
  • Eye

• Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Eye
  • Friendship
  • Texas

• Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Guy
  • Respect

• The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Simple
  • Eye
  • Back

• I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Think
  • Spiritual
  • Eye

• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Eye
  • Beauty
  • Beholder

• For all the benefits of being in the public eye, there is the odd downside, too. Twitter goes mad sometimes with people saying weird stuff. It is a bit strange, but you can just ignore them. It is not even worth getting worked up about.

  

  Laura Trott
  • People
  • Up
  • Eye

• Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.

  

  Saadi
  • Heart
  • Eye
  • Lovely

• Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Song
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.

  

  John Travolta
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Eyes

• Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Eye
  • States
  • Ambassadors

• Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Life
  • Training
  • Actor

• I had really not been out of the United States much, except for Mexico. I thought, "Jesus Christ, this [Russia] is like a whole new world." Instead of writing Michael Jackson one-glove jokes, all I had to do was go to these weird places and keep my eyes and ears open.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Writing
  • Eyes

• Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

  

  Madeleine de Scudery
  • Men
  • Eyes
  • Marriage

• It's understandable that people are keeping one eye on the pot and another up the chimney.

  

  Kevin Keegan
  • People
  • Up
  • Eye

• I'm no reformer; for I see more lightThan darkness in the world; mine eyes are quickTo catch the first dim radiance of the dawn,And slow to note the cloud that threatens storm.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • World
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on sparrows.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • God
  • Together
  • Stop

• The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.

  

  C.P. Snow
  • People
  • Country
  • Death

• Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Pain
  • Eye

• I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O list!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Fear
  • Eye

• Koudelka looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!" Cordelia met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Reason
  • Eye
  • Results

• I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.

  

  Kanye West
  • Voice
  • Down
  • Generation

• The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Behavior
  • Sexual
  • Unnatural

• Like the apple of Thine eye preserve me, O Lord God; defend me and beneath Thy wings shelter me from temptations.

  

  Ephrem the Syrian
  • Eye
  • Wings
  • Apple