Cold Eyes Quotes:

Somewhere in the ocean, a shark was missing its cold eyes because this man had them.

- Steve Hamilton

source: Steve Hamilton (2010). “The Lock Artist: A Novel”, p.113, Macmillan

topic: Ocean, Eye, Men, Cold Eyes

Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Life, Tombstone, Eye, Horsemen, Limestone

His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Eye, People, Promise, Cold Eyes

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction. Murder within the species on an individual or collective scale is a phenomenon unknown in the whole animal kingdom, except for man, and a few varieties of ants and rats.

- Arthur Koestler

topic: Eye, Men, Animal, Cold Eyes, Mental Disorder

With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy the "quality of painting" (as one enjoys a pasty). But hungry souls go hungry away. The vulgar herd stroll through the rooms and pronounce the pictures "nice" or "splendid." Those who could speak have said nothing, those who could hear have heard nothing.

- Wassily Kandinsky

topic: Nice, Eye, Skills, Pasties, Cold Eyes

Most people are chained to their own fear and stupidity and haven’t the sense to level a cold eye at just what is wrong with their lives. Most people will continue on, dissatisfied but never attempting to understand why, or how they might change things for the better, and they die with nothing in their hearts but dirt and old, thin blood - weak blood, diluted - and their memories aren’t worth a goddamned thing.

- Patrick deWitt

topic: Memories, Heart, Eye, Cold Eyes

My faceless neighbor spoke up: “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.” I exploded: “What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet? His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily: “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.

- Elie Wiesel

source: Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.116, Penguin UK

topic: Eye, People, Promise, Faceless, Do You Care

On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!

- William Butler Yeats

source: "Under Ben Bulben" l. 89 (1939). The final three lines are in fact inscribed on Yeats's gravestone.

topic: Life, Death, Eye, Limestone, Cold Eyes

This is not pessimism but rather casting a cold eye on things. It is only one man's story, and I think that things will go better, but difficulties exist and nothing is served by hiding them under a poetic veil or under a lyricism of the past. I am against slogans.

- Chinua Achebe

source: Chinua Achebe, Bernth Lindfors (1997). “Conversations with Chinua Achebe”, p.8, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Eye, Past, Men, Cold Eyes

Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to the reptiles again. Not the little wet naked frog they were born. But the tortoise. Cold eyes, sagging circles of skin, the nose becomes beak. The shell of sleep.

- Josephine Winslow Johnson

source: Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books

topic: Sleep, Eye, Circles, Sagging, Beaks

An audience is the most dangerous thing in the world, because they paid, and they're looking at you. And they paid! And there's a lot of them! And they cast a cold eye, because they paid. To be on the stage, you have to be very secure.

- Christopher Walken

source: Source: www.donshewey.com

topic: Eye, World, Cold, Cold Eyes