Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.

Ignatius of Loyola

Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual.

That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.

Charles Davis

They are under everybody's radar. If you are standing in your back yard, you are within sight of one.

Hannah Kent

If I believed everything everyone had ever told me about my family I'd be a sight more miserable than I am now

Helen Keller

The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.

Helen Keller

The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.

Helen Keller

It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.

Helen Keller

The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.

Helen Keller

The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.

Helen Keller

What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.

Cassandra Clare

Take off your shirt." Jace raised his eyebrows. "I'm not going to attack you," she said impatiently. "I can take the sight of your naked chest without swooning." "Are you sure?" he asked, obediently sliding the shirt off his shoulders. "Because viewing my naked chest has caused many women to seriously injure themselves stampeding to get to me.

Herbert Hoover

We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Evan Esar

Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.

Evan Esar

Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one.

Eugene Delacroix

Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works, objects whose very disproportion constitutes an element of beauty.

Esther Hicks

In your action, you lose sight of the vision, you lose sight of your trust in the process, and you just bang around in a sense of futility. Hold the vision and trust that the Universe will acclimate to your vision. Hold the vision and trust the process.

Florence Griffith Joyner

When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.

George Bernard Shaw

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

Jawaharlal Nehru

At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.

J. I. Packer

Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator.

Irwin Shaw

Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is not the tool of the soldier, just as the hammer is the tool of the carpenter. We live off death and the threat of death and we must take it calmly and use it well.... Eventually I came to enjoy killing, as a pianist enjoys the Czerny which keeps his fingers limber for the Beethoven.

Prabal Gurung

There is undoubtedly a lot of pressure that comes with recognition, which can be a good thing and bad thing all at the same time. But if you stay focused and don't lose sight of what you're doing and who you are, you can rise above it.

George H. W. Bush

Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective- a new world order-can emerge... We are now in sight of a United Nations that performs as envisioned by its founders.

Graham Phillips

The only reason why you should do a film is because it creatively carbonates you and gets you going. If you're doing it for any other reason, you've lost sight of why you're acting, in the first place.

Jim Butcher

Murphy had found a spot on the street, which made me wonder if she didn't have some kind of magical talent after all. Only some kind of precognitive ESP could have gotten us a parking space on the street, in the shadow of a building, with both of us in sight of the apartment building's entrance.

Jean de la Bruyere

A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.

Jayne Anne Phillips

As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.

Jayson Blair

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.

Byron White

It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect.

Nicholas Sparks

is love at first sight truly possible ?