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sight evil example
We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare. Blaise Pascal
sight blood people
The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than my blood type. People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection. Andrea Bocelli
sight long people
Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give a friendly welcome to newcomers. One of the disagreeable traits of our human nature seems to be to dislike on sight people who come later than the first settlers. Dorothy Canfield Fisher
sight people poverty
We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it. Dorothy Day
sight cities creative
A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, killing time and hearing the sights and sounds of an unfamiliar place. Andrew Bird
sight fake kicking
A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved. Robert A. Heinlein
sight different plus
Le toucher est le plus de mystificateur de tous les sens, a' la diffe rence de la vue, qui est le plus magique. Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical. Roland Barthes
sight conditions
The necessary condition for an image is sight,
sight consciousness thinker
The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought: ... Sri Aurobindo
agony attain decorative designers endless feeling keen saint sort towards
I think there's a sort of agony with all intelligent and very creative designers that it's only fashion, that in the end it's only the decorative arts. I had a feeling towards the end that Saint Laurent and Berge were very keen to attain that immortality that a lot of designers long for. You know, those endless exhibitions. Suzy Menkes
agony impossible asks
What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony. Cotton Mather
agony acting
Acting is happy agony. Jean-Paul Sartre
agony borne cross joy nations others pain saw
I saw that nations like individuals could only be made through the agony of the Cross and in no other way. Joy comes not out of infliction of pain on others but out of pain voluntarily borne by oneself. Mohandas Gandhi
agony heaven glory
Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory C. S. Lewis
agony people comfort
The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others Iain Banks
agony suffering speech
Speech isn't for agony. Hortense Calisher
agony suffering genius
Agony without genius was gaucherie.
agony snakes skins
One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations. Frank Herbert
smell mute
Smell is the mute sense, the one without words. Diane Ackerman
smell bread taste
Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt. George Herbert
smell feet air
At 10,000 feet, the 3 parachutes would come out, a little lower the pressure of the atmosphere outside was greater than inside, and we could smell the salt air and it was very encouraging to return to earth. Buzz Aldrin
smell hair waiting
I'll usually wash my hair and let it air-dry wavy, but if I'm just in a hang-out mood, I won't even wash it. I'll wait until it smells. Jessica Simpson
smell differences matter
All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree. Rebecca West
smell funny-food spoiled
Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is. P. J. O'Rourke
smell clothes creating
And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.' Peter Ackroyd
smell guy important
I love a nicely groomed guy who smells good. That's important. Kelly Rowland
smell water delight
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight M. F. K. Fisher