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.
Quotes to Explore
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like finding buried treasure. I tried the rouge, the eye shadow, the lipstick. But I couldn't get the rouge off. Mummy spanked me terribly.
Olivia De Havilland
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Oliver Platt
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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
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Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.
Saadi
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Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.
John Travolta
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Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.
Francesco Guicciardini
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Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings.
Alan Alda
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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
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Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
Madeleine de Scudery
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It's understandable that people are keeping one eye on the pot and another up the chimney.
Kevin Keegan
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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
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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
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Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.
Rumi
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Maybe I'll take a little better care of myself, but I wouldn't count on it.
Alex Trebek
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There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.
Patricia Heaton
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Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence). Humor is the birth -pangs of the absolute mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between the I and the idea of the I.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Like the apple of Thine eye preserve me, O Lord God; defend me and beneath Thy wings shelter me from temptations.
Ephrem the Syrian