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.

Chuck Clarke

We told them that we would work with them and they have not come back with us, so nothing's really on the horizon right now.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.

Kim Stanley Robinson

History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking -- an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything.

Maria Edgeworth

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

Jimmy Buffett

There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

Jandy Nelson

It's as if someone vacuumed up the horizon while we were looking the other way.

Bob Bacarella

There is nothing on the horizon that is going to turn this stock around quickly. ( Intel ) is like a big ship in the ocean. It takes time to turn.

Colin Wilson

Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?

William Golding

The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to novelists by the dozen.

Bruce Babbitt

It's going to be a long tough summer, ... There's no relief in sight. We've got September and October to go.

Leon Trotsky

I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.

Vance Joy

I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

Tom Clancy

Most things in here don't react well to bullets.

Abdullah Gul

I can't see any problem that will prevent the start of talks on October 3,

Gyorgy Ligeti

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.

Arthur Hailey

Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.

Cleveland Amory

On resigning as collaborator on the memoirs of the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, new summaries, 6 October 1955. You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.