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sight ties understanding
Rebecca West ... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.
sight earth pages
William Jennings Bryan The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward. It carries the call of the Saviour to the remotest corners of the earth; on its pages are written the assurances of the present and our hopes for the future
sight mind age
Woodrow Wilson The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.
sight perspective shifting
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.
sight mind growing
William James The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this the progressive "condensation" of thought. ... Steps really sink from sight. An advanced thinker sees the relations of his topics is such masses and so instantaneously that when he comes to explain to younger minds it is often hard ... Bowditch, who translated and annotated Laplace's Méchanique Céleste, said that whenever his author prefaced a proposition by the words "it is evident," he knew that many hours of hard study lay before him.
sight rights gentleman
William Gilmore Simms The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman.
sight vision lost
Robin Green I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.
sight mind body
Robert Schumann Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.
peculiar abnormal normal-and-abnormal
Louise Brown I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.
peculiar year
Greg Moore This is a very peculiar year for flu.
peculiar
John Bankhead It's very peculiar that he isn't ... We're investigating to find out why.
peculiar life-is
Djuna Barnes One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
peculiar unusual
James Lovegrove The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride.
peculiar ridiculous
Thomas Ligotti Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.
peculiar noble painting
John Ruskin Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.
peculiar bourgeoisie horror
Christopher Lasch It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.
peculiar
Evelyn Underhill You don't have to be peculiar to find God,
association different kind
Narendra Modi We teach in our cultural history that the entire universe is a family. So our association with Nature is much deeper and of a very different kind.
association employers labor
Leland Stanford Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association.
association god-love gift-from-god
Radhanath Swami To be in the association of those aspiring to love God is the ultimate gift of God.
association waste
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.
association example enlightened
Eckhart Tolle There can be associations - enlightened businesses, for example - that do not work on the basis of us against them or wanting profit as the main motivating force behind what they do.
association amalgamation grows
Charlotte Bronte Out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion amalgamation.
association alive hungry
Orson Scott Card Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association
association sun
Diogenes The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.
association location
Noah Baumbach I like having associations with locations beyond their meaning for the specific movie.