Quotes about sight
sight personality inanimate-objects
Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates. Victor Hugo
sight
For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
sight bishops shock
As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.
sight two suffering
No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.
sight sometimes ache
Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache. Veronica Roth
sight views humanity
Flyers fell a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in one sweeping view, in reassurance that nature still exists on her own, without a chain-link fence to hold her. Richard Bach
sight devil action
The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions. Thomas F. Wilson
sight our-society facts
Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly. Robert Kennedy
sight keys looks
You couldn't see the key around my neck: it hung too low under both collars. But if I leaned in close, I could make it out, buried deep beneath. Out of sight, hard to recognize, but still able to be found, even if I was the only one to ever look for it. Sarah Dessen
sight comedian knows
There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is. Roger Ebert
sight singing battle
Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing. Rod Stewart
sight mind body
Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave. Robert Schumann
sight firsts tire
A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight. Samuel Johnson
sight ease forget
Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.
sight trying want
If you want to be a virtuoso then you have to set your sights above me. You have to go beyond what I'm doing. And that's for you to figure out. Because if you can do that, then I'm going to be trying to go beyond you. Steve Vai
sight perception slick
Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses. Rosemary Mahoney
sight things-in-life people
Sometimes the most happy people in life are the ones with nothing. We can't lose sight of the little things in life that should make us the happiest. Ryan Cabrera
sight imagination world
it is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world ... Sarah Orne Jewett
sight blossoming sun
The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.
sight light bird
At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply. Wallace Stevens
sight preparation needs
On the whole, the life of a chess professional is not as easy as it appears at first sight. One needs to devote some ten hours a day to chess and to everything connected with it - physical and psycholgical preparation. Vladimir Kramnik
sight justice peculiar
To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and its peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one thing: it is the purity and beauty of a failure. Walter Benjamin
sight profound long
Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it ... Virginia Woolf
sight clairvoyant founders
All the great Founders of religions have been possessed of clairvoyant sight. Rudolf Steiner
sight spirit breathe
The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight. William Cowper
sight sometimes hiding
Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that's in plain sight. Stephenie Meyer
sight soul vision
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul! Thomas Gray
sight covenant add
The oath adds nothing to the obligation. For a covenant, if lawful, binds in the sight of God, without the oath, as much as with it; if unlawful, bindeth not at all, though it be confirmed with an oath. Thomas Hobbes
sight shining sun
As in the presence of the Master, the Servants are equall, and without any honour at all; So are the Subjects, in the presence of the Soveraign. And though they shine some more, some lesse, when they are out of his sight; yet in his presence, they shine no more than the Starres in presence of the Sun.
sight looks good-things
When you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life. Victoria Osteen
sight heaven earth
And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.
sight meditation problem
Meditation ... puts into question more or less everything you tend to do in your search for happiness. But if you lose sight of this, it can become just another strategy for seeking happiness a more refined version of the problem you already have. Sam Harris
sight people democracy
American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians. Russell Simmons