Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Erin Morgenstern

Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.

Harsha Bhogle

There's no better sight on the cricket field than watch Tendulkar bat.

Fred Rogers

If the grain of wheat could know fear, it would be paralyzed with anxiety at the thought of being dropped in the ground, covered over, put out of sight, doomed to inactivity, yet what a glorious harvest awaits 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.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Repentance is a thing that cannot be trifled with every day. Daily transgression and daily repentance is not that which is pleasing in the sight of God.

Myles Munroe

One of the greatest enemies to vision is sight!

Julia Ward Howe

In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.

Kim Gordon

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

Kim Harrison

Rache,” he said, trying to get into my line of sight. “What more do you need? God to send a telegram?" (Jenks)

J. K. Rowling

I wasn't paying attention," said Myrtle dramatically. "Peeves upset me so much I came in here and tried to kill myself. Then, of course, I remembered that I'm -- that I'm --" "Already dead," said Ron hopefully. Myrtle gave a tragic sob, rose up in the air, turned over, and dived headfirst into the toilet, splashing water all over them and vanishing from sight, although from the direction of her muffled sobs, she had come to rest somewhere in the U-bend.

Gene Cernan

Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures turn the droplets into a cloud of bright, drifting crystals, as being among the most amazing sights they saw on an entire voyage.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.

Jeanne Calment

My sight is bad, my hearing is bad, I feel bad, but I don't suffer, I don't complain.

Georgia O'Keeffe

When you get so that you can't see, you come to it gradually. And if you didn't come by it gradually, I guess you'd just kill yourself when you couldn't see.

Francis Schaeffer

We must remember throughout our lives that in God's sight there are no little people and no little places. Only one thing is important: to be consecrated persons in God's place for us, at each moment.

Horatio Nelson

I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.

Homer

out of sight,out of mind

Homer

In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.

Howard Carter

It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.

James Geary

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

Neale Donald Walsch

Everything is "acceptable" in the sight of God, for how can God not accept that which is? To reject a thing is to deny that it exists.

Marcel Proust

The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it....

Ellen G. White

Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.

Ellen G. White

False religion may prevail, iniquity may abound, the love of many may wax cold, the cross of Calvary may be lost sight of, and darkness, like the pall of death, may spread over the world; the whole force of the popular current may be formed to overthrow the people of God; but in the hour of greatest peril the God of Elijah will raise up human instrumentalities to bear a message that will not be silenced.

Emile Durkheim

At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.