Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Finley

These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.

Peter Singer

Those who purchase meat, fur, and leather have no right to be shielded from the sights and sounds of the slaughterhouses from which these products were produced.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.

Seth Shostak

We're hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be predators, after all. An uneasy feeling is perfectly natural if you suspect that someone has you in their ocular sights, whether it's a ghost or just some guy at the bus stop.

Thomas a Kempis

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Natalie Merchant

I’ve always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, I’ve never lost sight of that.

Joshua Chamberlain

We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be Heaven.

Rachel Cusk

We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.

Lydia Lunch

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.

Toks Olagundoye

I identify myself as a Nigerian because that is where I was born and raised and where my family still lives.

Mila Kunis

I don't know what it's like to not work; my family embedded that in me.

Khaled Hosseini

My family left Afghanistan in 1976, well before the Communist coup and the Soviet invasion. We certainly thought we would be going back. But when we saw those Soviet tanks rolling into Afghanistan, the prospect for return looked very dim. Few of us, I have to say, envisioned that nearly a quarter century of bloodletting would follow.