Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natalie Merchant

I’ve always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, I’ve never lost sight of that.

Simone Elkeles

A Mexican guy named Sam pushes Gary Frankel next to Isabel. "This guy can break your arm with one snap, asshole. Get out of my sight before I sic him on you," Sam says. Gary, who's wearing a coral shirt and white pants, growls to look tough. It doesn't work.

Simone de Beauvoir

--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.

Simon Hughes

The sight of Imran [Khan] tearing fearsomely down the hill and the baying of the crowd made me realise for the first time that adrenalin was sometimes brown

Thomas Mann

Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim.

Tony Juniper

We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics

Tony Dungy

It's easy to lose sight of the ultimate goal when you're in the trenches.

Tony Dungy

If we lose sight of people, we lose sight of the very purpose of leadership.

Tom Welling

I like being in new places and seeing new sights.

Steve Martin

The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the Matisse stood firm in the de-escalating illumination, its beauty turning functionality inside out, making itself a more practical and useful presence than anything else in sight.

Simon Cowell

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

Shahrukh Khan

Whenever you're feeling down..And I am not around let the sight of me be the reason you smile

Robert A. Heinlein

I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual code and starting fresh. Most philosophers haven't the courage for this; they swallow the basics of the present code--monogamy, family pattern, continence, body taboos, conventional restrictions on intercourse, and so forth--then fiddle with details...even such piffle as discussing whether the female breast is an obscene sight! (p.365)

Robert A. Heinlein

A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.

Robert A. Heinlein

Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

Victoria Osteen

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.

Victor Hugo

And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

Victor Hugo

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

For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

Victor Hugo

As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.

Victor Hugo

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.

Veronica Roth

Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache.

Richard Bach

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.

Thomas F. Wilson

The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions.

Rumi

Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.

Tom Krause

The surest way to lose sight of who you are is to constantly compare yourself to others.

Steve Finley

These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.

Utada Hikaru

There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.

Usain Bolt

Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

Sue Miller

It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.

Sue Townsend

I took my sight and mobility for granted.

Steven Tyler

In order to get to the other side of the shore, you have to lose sight of this one!

T. D. Jakes

I'm not walking by sight- I'm, walking by faith