It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.
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NORTON JUSTER We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons...
PAULO COELHO Sometimes it takes looking back on the situation before we can see how our faith has grown during ou...
CHARLENA JACKSON You are a slow learner, Winston."
"How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front o...
GEORGE ORWELL We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.
JOE CHUNG Men in the game are blind to what men looking on see clearly
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ALEX GRAVES ...mirages are things that aren't really there that you can see very clearly."
"How do yo...
NORTON JUSTER How did George Bensen cut 'In Your Eyes?' How did I work with the Backstreet Boys? It all co...
DAN HILL Sometimes unexpected things are a disappointment for sure.Yet when it happens it makes one see how r...
KAT MORGAN Sometimes, one needs another pair of eyes to see things clearly.
AGUIDON The man is blind. How can he see a hole?
LARRY NELSON Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusi...
JODI PICOULT Me and George and Billy are two of a kind.
(on his relationship with George Steinbrenner and Billy M...
MICKEY RIVERS I may be blind, but I can see how inspiring it is to be me.
DAVID BLUNKETT I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.
JOSE SARAMAGO Don is our George Martin,
DARIUS RUCKER Sometimes the very things that we’re expending our lives to sustain are the very things that are k...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Close your Eyes, and Open your Mind.
Now you can See, and Before you were Blind.
DANIEL RIEGER ANDERSSON If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.
FEDERICO FELLINI I wish I could draw you how I see you. I'd draw a boy with the most magnetic smile, and the kindest ...
JASMINE WARGA Why pour shampoo into a rabbit's eyes to see how much shampoo you can put in an adult's eyes...
JOHN PAUL DEJORIA I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but...
JOSé SARAMAGO Who can blind lover's eyes?
UNKNOWN if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see i...
NORTON JUSTER Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I we...
STEVIE WONDER When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everythin...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blin...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
WILLIAM BLAKE Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
JANICE MARKOWITZ Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.”
ASHISH KUMAR This is not good. The meeting was bad. Relations were bad. It was very hostile, even bitter... I don...
BERTIE AHERN Sometimes good men need to do things that aren't good. Right?"
I ruffle his hair. Luis is way m...
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JOAN RIVERS How was it that we were all so blind?
JOAN COLEMAN The inaugural of Ronald Reagan, with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. And that was the greatest thing....
DON RICKLES You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hidi...
TRACY CHEVALIER He was so narrow minded that if he fell on a pin it would blind him in both eyes
FRED ALLEN Sometimes you have to accept how things are. You can make it easy on yourself, or you can make it ha...
SUSAN MALLERY To see two couples that are battling to make it work just shows that love is in a marriage, but ther...
KYLA PRATT There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.
AUGUST STRINDBERG If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
THOMAS FULLER It was the hardest thing I ever did. To see a bunch of grown men drop to their knees and cry was rea...
GENE MILLS Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.
RICHARD PERLE I am the One, and I see all.
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DEAN KOONTZ Men are grown babies.
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SETH GRAHAME-SMITH [Both men are consciously Jewish. Neither, says Harwood, was bothered by Dickens's anti-Semitic over...
RONALD HARWOOD It's important for me to see how guys react in certain spots, ... Not just putting them there, but h...
WILLIE RANDOLPH Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
ELLEN DEGENERES There are queer things, evil things, out yonder, and there are bones of white men bleaching in the s...
FREDERICK MERRICK WHITE I thinking of people like Phil Ramone or George Martin,
BILLY JOEL Blind eyes can perceive more than an ignorant mind.
FAISAL KHOSA I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
BIBLE I loved George Carlin and Dean Martin. I was one of those kids who had every comedy album.
STEPHEN COLBERT Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA They say love is blind. I say no, as it is those in love who are the blind ones. For if they just op...
ROBERT VANVALKENBURG Beauty is in everything. Sometimes you can not see it with your eyes, you have to look for it with y...
ARLEEN PETERSON Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some peo...
BRAM STOKER A childs service is little, yet hee is no little foole that
despiseth it.
GEORGE HERBERT Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no percep...
CHANAKYA Religion searches for reason, and never finds purpose. They think the purpose is to have better reas...
R.J. BLIZZARD I thought it was good to test yourself sometimes. It was good to see how much you could take.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT I am so small I can barely be seen.
How can this great love be inside me?
Look at yo...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
STEVE BUSCEMI Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.
ALLY CARTER A blind man can see his mouth
IRISH SAYINGS In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to se...
JACK HARBAUGH My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor.
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore,...
BLACK ELK Oh Martin Sometimes your voice was the thunder..Sometimes it was the falling rain. Always it burst o...
SAIOM SHRIVER As utterly irrational as it might seem, the greed within me has the most limited vision I can possib...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC I never said a guy who wears glasses is a queer. A guy who wears glasses is a four-eyes; a guy who's...
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WALTER DE LA MARE Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes.
SONYA HARTNETT But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY It takes a strong person to admit he's got problems. Things are bugging you, you've got to g...
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SANDRA K. COOK We should have the blind to teach us how to see.
ANDONI GARCIA George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.
PAUL MCCARTNEY It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Your eyes are open but your mind is blind.
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TARYN LEIGH Oh, how she did love that queer, common boy!
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it aw...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We Lannisters do have a certain pride," said Tyrion Lannister.
“Pride?” Catelyn snapp...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord—”
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Yours was the hand that threw him. You meant for him to die.”
His chains chinked softly. “I...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not wa...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am Thunder and Thunder is me, we are one beast, we are joined, we are one.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The living have no place at the feasts of the dead.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I love the juice but I loathe sticky fingers. Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN No man is accursed as the kinslayer.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The kinslayer is accursed in the eyes of gods and men,
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It is too late for ifs, and too late for rescues,” Catelyn said. “All that remains is vengeance.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Wolves never cry.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN They held each other close and turned their backs upon the end.
The hills that split asunder an...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The watcher on the walls. The sword in the darkness.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a l...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel,...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?'
Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, an...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN and take the ironmen in the rear while they are beating off what they think is my main thrust up the...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Oh, yes. Choosing... it has always hurt. And always will. I know.
-Maester Aemon Targaryen, A G...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Her name is Brienne," Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?"...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Better to live shamed than die proud.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The crow commands, the captive must obey.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My enemies are legion.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?"
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the North. You told me you could be strong. You have the wol...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work ag...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN