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

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.
Phil McGraw

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
Umberto Eco

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
Margaret Atwood

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
Rod Serling

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
Salma Hayek

There is less in this than meets the eye.
Tallulah Bankhead

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.
Theodor Adorno

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Laurence J. Peter

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
Thomas Fuller

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
Thomas Fuller

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
David Brainerd

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
Thornton Wilder

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
William Congreve

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.
George Berkeley

Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.
Cameron Diaz

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
Horace

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
Horace

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
Horace