Pastoral Resources

I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?

At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginning of my real education.

After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.

There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.

Instead, we did take our eye off the ball. We decided, instead of finishing the job in Afghanistan, to go into Iraq. And today, unfortunately, if you look at the situation on the ground, it is a mess.

The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches.

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

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

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

Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.

I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for research. They're the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they've seen more than they could ever possibly tell you.

Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss?

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.