"I had seen ardency in men's eyes, but I had only felt it once. With Flauvic, false and therefore easy to dismiss. I suddenly wished that I could feel it now. No, I did feel it. I did have the same feeling, only I had masked it as restlessness, or as the exhortation to action, or as anger. I thought how wonderful it would be to see that spark now, in the right pair of eyes."

-- Sherwood Smith

#Eye Quotes #Men Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.”
“I think that Putin views Obama as weak. I think that there is a sense that he could put the troops in Ukraine because he knows Obama will do very little than what he's done at this point.”
“Picasso has been my inspiration, expressing himself in a hundred different ways.”
“If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.”
“Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.”
“Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.”
“I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.”

Source : Ernest J. Gaines (2015). “A Lesson Before Dying”, p.189, Serpent's Tail
“We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.”

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