Famous Quotes & Sayings

William James

Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.

Samuel Johnson

A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight.

Zhuangzi

To examine oneself makes good use of sight.

Voltaire

It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

Rick Riordan

Their goal was in sight. They had a Titan with a very loud kitten on their side. That had to count for something.

Steve Vai

If you want to be a virtuoso then you have to set your sights above me. You have to go beyond what I'm doing. And that's for you to figure out. Because if you can do that, then I'm going to be trying to go beyond you.

William Hazlitt

Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.

Zygmunt Bauman

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

Zig Ziglar

The same God who created Rembrandt created you, and you are as precious in God’s sight as Rembrandt or anyone else.

Larry Kramer

There is an awakening occurring at the traditional media companies.

Vera Farmiga

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

Josh Miller

I guess we saw those results. We just have to get better at what we do. As far as personnel, we have the guys to get it done. It was an awakening for us to realize we've got to get better.

Hu Jintao

It helped spread far and wide the basic values of freedom, democracy, equality, justice and peace, and promoted in a big way the awakening of the people of all countries, especially those of colonial and semi-colonial countries, thus exerting a sustaining influence on the development of human civilization.

Michael Franti

I really believe that, as an artist, my opportunity to help to bring about awakening is one that should come from a personal process that someone has, and not from me telling somebody that this is the way it is.

Muqtada Sadr

I hope this is the beginning of an Islamic awakening and that it will lead to Islam's triumph in other countries.

Jesus Lopez

The genre is in the zenith of its explosion. It is now awakening interest in the rest of the world.

Marc Ecko

This is an awakening for me, ... I didn't even know who Peter Vallone was.

Eckhart Tolle

There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself.

Carl Jung

Because the truth is, I do love him. I've loved him without ceasing. I've loved him since that very first day. I loved him even when I swore I didn't. I can't help it. I just do.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves.

Richard Paul Evans

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

Russell Baker

Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.

Russell Brand

Normally, I'm good at first dates, 'cause that's the only date I ever have, so I know how to control it and be confident.

Umberto Eco

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

Triple H

First of all, Jericho...Liberace called and said he wants his pajamas back!

William Wordsworth

The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.

Tupac Shakur

I know death follows me, but I murder him first.