To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of.... I have always wagered against God and I rega...rd the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Now bury your bird," the wind it bawled, "And bury him down and down... Who had to put his trust in one So light-eyed and so brown...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Saul was very angry, for this saying displeased him. He said, -They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascr...ibed thousands; what more can he have but the kingdom? So Saul eyed David from that day on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The "Green-Eyed Monster" causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give blue-eyed men their swivel chairs To whirl in tall buildings.... Allow them many ships at sea, And on land, soldiers And policemen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man's real and deep feelings are surely those which he acts upon when challenged, not those which, mellow-eyed and soft-voiced, ...he spouts in easy times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
--The man who has stood on the Acropolis, And looked down over Attica; or he... Who has sailed where picturesque Constantinople is, Or seen Timbuctoo, or hath taken tea In small-eyed China's crockery-ware metropolis, Or sat amidst the bricks of Nineveh, May not think much of London's first appearance-- But ask him what he thinks of it a year hence!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear...-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »