Famous Quotes & Sayings

Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.

Meher Baba

But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.

Mary Oliver

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Martin Amis

Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions.

Pope Benedict XVI

Every human life is precious in God's sight and no effort should be spared in the attempt to promote throughout the world a genuine respect for the inalienable rights and dignity of individuals and peoples everywhere.

Peter Singer

Those who purchase meat, fur, and leather have no right to be shielded from the sights and sounds of the slaughterhouses from which these products were produced.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.

Louise Hay

I awaken today, appreciating everything in sight, and I give thanks.

Lisa Kleypas

One glance and I knew exactly who and what he was. The classic alpha male, the kind who had spurred evolution forward about five million years ago by nailing every female in sight. They charmed, seduced, and behaved like bastards, and yet women were biologically incapable of resisting their magic DNA.

Lindsay Lohan

Because I'm so much in the spotlight, people lose sight of why I'm in the industry. In fact, I'm doing all this because I love to act. I love to perform, to sing.

Lee Remick

Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike. Faces, though, can be quite different and a damn sight more interesting!

Lewis Black

Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

Peter Straub

Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.

Rachel Field

The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.

Rachel Field

A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.

Rachel Cusk

We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.

Rabindranath Tagore

The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight.

Maggie Stiefvater

Grace (talking about Sam): At the sight of him, my stomach slid down to my feet, a weird combination of relief, nerves, and anticipation all in one, a feeling that never seemed to go away.

Maggie Stiefvater

I was losing sight of the wolf ahead of me; the one inside me seemed closer all of a sudden.

Maggie Stiefvater

The world needs more love at first sight.

Madame de Stael

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music which one hears for one's good as one approaches it. [Fr., La vue d'un tel monument est comme une musique continuelle et fixee qui vous attend pour vous faire du bien quand vous vous en approchez.]

John Dryden

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

John Dryden

Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.

John Dryden

Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.

Judith McNaught

I buy everything in sight. It took my last ounce of control not to buy one of these in every color.

Joseph Lelyveld

By the time Gandhi met Muhammad Ali in Delhi in April 1915it was, Gandhi said, 'love at first sight.'

Katherine Center

Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful.

Kate Kelly

The Procrastinator has the opposite problem. He can’t selectively focus his attention and might endure frequent accusations about his laziness. In truth, he’s so distracted by stimuli that he can’t figure out where or how to get started. Sounds, smells, sights and the random wanderings of his thoughts continually vie for his attention.

Joseph Conrad

The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells, too, by Jove! - breathe dead hippo, so as to speak, and not be contaminated. And there, don't you see? your strength comes in, the faith in your ability for the digging of unostentatious holes to bury the stuff in - your power of devotion, not to yourself, but to an obscure, back-breaking business.

Joshua Chamberlain

We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be Heaven.

Kate Smith

This nation loves singing and loves acting.

Leona Lewis

I try not to diet because it never really works for me, if I tell myself I can't eat something then I tend to want to eat everything in sight.