Eye For An Eye quotes:

Send

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom. -- Sandra Cisneros
An eye for an eye is elemental. -- Lou Reed
An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
An eye for an eye....we are all blind -- Dalai Lama
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. -- Kurt Vonnegut
An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind. -- Khalil Gibran
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The law of "An eye for an eye" will eventually leave everyone blind. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye. -- Bas Rutten
I dont believe in an eye for an eye, I believe in two eyes for an eye -- Bas Rutten
The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that. -- Greg Iles
If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness. -- Lewis B. Smedes
I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat. -- Muhammad Ali
We get what we deserve. When we allow dirty players to be sanitized and called "intense competitors," when we accept classless gestures and taunting as healthy enthusiasm, when we cheer for the barbaric, eye-for-an-eye mentality of players throwing baseballs at each other, we get what we deserve. -- Phil Taylor
The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers... In winning our freedom, we will so appeal to you heart and conscience that we will win you in the process. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for everybody. Means and ends are inseparable. The means represent the ideal in the making; in the long run of history destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat everybody right. But it also teaches you if someone steps on your toe, chop off their foot. And I carry my religious axe with me all the time. -- Malcolm X
Because revenge is a very known feeling in American culture, theres a certain element of an eye for an eye. Theres the saying, Be careful what you wish for, you might get it. When you wish for revenge, and you think youve gotten it, what happens then? Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action. -- Niels Arden Oplev
Because revenge is a very known feeling in American culture, there's a certain element of an eye for an eye. There's the saying, 'Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.' When you wish for revenge, and you think you've gotten it, what happens then? Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action. -- Niels Arden Oplev
An eye for an eye my friend. -- Tsugumi Ohba
Always keep an eye out for other opportunities. -- Michelle Singletary
Eye for eye and the world will go blind. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You do have an eye for the tarnished lining. -- Jefferson Bass
I have an eye for new and refreshing talent, -- Liberace
With a keen eye for details, one truth prevails! -- Gosho Aoyama
An eye for an eye til everyone is blind. -- Kathy Mattea
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent. -- William Shakespeare
I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion. -- Bruce Oldfield
I've always had an eye for the oddities in life. -- Nikki Sixx
I have a good eye for great projects, talent, and entrepreneurs. -- Megan Smith
Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye. -- George S. Kaufman
The human eyelid is not teartight (happily for the human eye). -- Samuel Beckett
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. -- Ivan Panin
I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick. -- Adam Carolla
Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye. -- Langston Hughes
The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it. -- Thomas Carlyle
For my everyday look, I don't like going anywhere without eye makeup. -- Becky G
For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty. -- Virginia Woolf
Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death. -- Thomas Harris
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For once I want to have a relationship outside the public eye. -- Lance Bass
An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind. -- Khalil Gibran
The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind. -- Henry David Thoreau
Wallowing in this bloody sty, I cast for fish that pleased my eye -- Robert Lowell
Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect. -- Carolina Herrera
God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart. -- Rumi
Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with. -- Joseph Butler
I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it. -- Seth MacFarlane
...his lazy eye drifting around the room like a child looking for the bathroom. -- Chuck Klosterman
The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted. -- Elisabeth Elliot
Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft. -- Sophocles
The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. -- Virginia Woolf
I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people. -- Michael Connelly
Losing your honor in a person's eye is tantamount losing it for entire humanity. -- Anum Sattar
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. -- Horace
A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage. -- Honore de Balzac
For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind? -- William Butler Yeats
The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end. -- John Charles Polanyi
The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time. -- Leonardo da Vinci
A girl ask me for a ring and i put one around her whole eye. -- Big L
An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road. -- Rachel Naomi Remen
An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly. -- Lauren Oliver
For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye. -- Chelsea Clinton
When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted. -- Frederick Franck
No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things. -- William Shakespeare
With one eye on today's blessings you will have more staying power for the distant goal. -- Henry B. Eyring
My girls are very fashionable. They have a very good eye for marrying style and fashion. -- Erykah Badu
I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things. -- Stana Katic
The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint. -- W. Somerset Maugham
For every hand extended another lies in wait. Keep your eye on that one girl...anticipate. -- Ani DiFranco
I'd gone heavy on the black eye makeup until raccoons and I could pass for cousins. -- Jeaniene Frost
Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants. -- Daniel Gilbert
Technology can do amazing things for us. It's something we need to keep an eye on. -- Joseph Kosinski
Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples. -- Robert Graves
It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid. -- Howard Hodgkin
I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that. -- Adrian Edmondson
It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war. -- Leonid Brezhnev
The one thing Cristiano Ronaldo has is pace, quick feet and a great eye for goal. -- Chris Waddle
I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound. -- Greg Maddux
The naked women's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man. -- William Blake
The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound -- Greg Maddux
Nothing comes cheap, though the educated eye will always spot very nice things for the least money. -- Albert Hadley
We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls. -- Jim Fowler
In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace. -- George Gascoigne
Education is the fertilizer for the mind, the seeds for success, and the eye opener for life. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture. -- Paul Klee
This love for everyday things, part natural from the wide eye of Infancy, part a literary calculation -- Billy Collins
Fashion is not easy. You have to change your eye to look for beauty all the time. -- Carolina Herrera
I prefer to be noticed some day, first for my ideas and second for my good eye... -- Ernst Haas
Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel. -- Max von Sydow
For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone sees the invisible -- Richard of Saint Victor
Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it. -- Gary D. Schmidt
I don't believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience. -- Ellen Page
--
Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees. -- Rumi
Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone. -- Eva Figes
Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail. -- Amy Winehouse
For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read. -- Alexander Pope
I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut. -- Mark Haddon
Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal. -- Peg Bracken
Ruskin's concern for art education applied to the development of the power of the hand and eye for everyone. -- Robert Hewison
Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye. -- Matthew Arnold
Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies. -- Sara Shepard
An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians. -- Orson Scott Card
No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams. -- Donald G. Mitchell
Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you. -- Suzanne Collins
He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor (Proverbs 22:9). -- Proverbs 22 9
I'm the maknae. All my clothes are picked by my stylist because I don't have an eye for fashion. -- Seungri
I am always a great fan of keeping things on an eye level for comedy because it plays better. -- James Bobin
A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality. -- Carol Ann Tomlinson
For the Eye altering alters all; The Senses roll themselves in fear And the flat Earth becomes a Ball. -- William Blake
I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for. -- Jeff Bridges
Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by. -- Jewel
Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression? -- George Eliot

Send