You have observed a skilful man reading Virgil. Well, that author is a thousand books to a thousand persons. Take the book into yo...ur two hands, and read your eyes out; you will never find what I find.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Preschoolers think and talk in concrete, literal terms. When they hear a phrase such as "losing your temper," they may wonder wher...e the lost temper can be found. Other expressions they may hear in times of crisis--raising your voice, crying your eyes out, going to pieces, falling apart, picking on each other, you follow in your father's footsteps--may be perplexing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light.... Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New York state sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse. And they got no windows in the workhouse. You know, in t...he old days they used to put your eyes out with a red-hot poker.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The supposition that it was possible for any woman to be so mean-spirited as not at least to wish to tear out her rival's eyes was... too hard for the digestion of the Cry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a generation watches the young ones, their future, their responsibility, grow up, and when what they are to inherit is pitifu...l and so reduced, then the shame of it goes too deep for reasoning. No, it was not our fault that our children had to learn such hardship, had to forego so much that we, the older ones, had inherited. Our fault it was not; but we felt that it was. We were learning, we old ones, that in times when a species, a race, is under threat, drives and necessities built into the very substance of our flesh speak out in ways that we need never have known about if extremities had not come to squeeze these truths out of us. An older, a passing, generation needs to hand on goodness, something fine and high--even if it is only in potential--to their children. And if there isn't this bequest to put into their hands, then there is a bitterness and a pain that makes it hard to look into young eyes, young faces.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Would mankind be but contented without the continual use of that little but significant pronoun "mine" or "my own," with what luxu...rious delight might they revel in the property of others!... But if envy makes me sicken at the sight of everything that is excellent out of my own possession, then will the sweetest food be sharp as vinegar, and every beauty will in my depraved eyes appear as deformity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For most of my adult life, I have been an emotional hit-and- run driver--that is, a reporter. I made people like me, trust me, ope...n their hearts and their minds to me, and cry and bleed on to the pages of my neat little notebooks, and then I went back to a safe place and made a story out of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids a...nd their elders' cold unconcern toward others. Maybe the homeless are not the only ones who need to spend time in these places to thaw out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »