Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Madison

In framing a system, which we wish to last for ages, we should not lose sight of the changes which ages will produce.

Emma Goldman

Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them; besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will break easily, and the interior is anything but a gainly sight.

John Hewson

We've lost sight of our role in the region and our view of our colleagues in the region.

John Hodgman

It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn't have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does - his is in plain sight.

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.

Herta Muller

Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as if in a cupboard, and I hoped it would stay that way. I developed a yearning for being alone, unkempt, untended.

Frankie Valli

Pardon the way that I stare, there's nothing else to compare. The sight of you leaves me weak, there are no words left to speak.

George Crabbe

Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And shed their substance on the floating air.

Lois McMaster Bujold

A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Second sight is redundant to reason anyway.

Lucy Stone

We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

Ludacris

I don't want to be too over-exposed, but then at the same time I don't want to be too out-of-sight-out-of-mind.

Loren Eiseley

Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say: fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore.

Lord Chesterfield

It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.

Maimonides

The Mutakallemim... apply the term non-existence only to absolute non-existence, and not to absence of properties. A property and the absence of that property are considered by them as two opposites, they treat, e.g. , blindness and sight, death and life, in the same way as heat and cold. Therefore they say, without any qualification, non-existence does not require any agent, an agent is required when something is produced.

Moses

I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.

Moses Mendelssohn

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight

Maria Sharapova

I don't get to do as much sightseeing as I would like to.

Maureen Johnson

I envisioned huge piles of the Elf Hotel flying off the belt, taking down everybody in sight. I had seen pictures of that Elf Hotel - it had sharp candy-cane spires that could easily impale someone. If anyone was ever going to be killed by an Elf Hotel, it would be my parents.

Jack Welch

When the amount of change externally exceeds the amount of change internally, the end is in sight.

John Charles Polanyi

It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.

Matthew Arnold

And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.

Orhan Pamuk

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

Orison Swett Marden

There's no grander sight in the world than that of a person fired with a great purpose, dominated by one unwavering aim.

Heraclitus

Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.

Helen Fielding

One minute you're closer to someone than anyone in the whole world, next minute they need only to say the words 'time apart', 'serious talk' or 'maybe you...' and you're never going to see them again and will have to spend the next six months having imaginary conversations in which they beg to come back, and bursting into tears at the sight of their toothbrush.

John Millington Synge

A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam.