Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

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.

Donna Tartt

…still when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life…

e. e. cummings

my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp fatal tools in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of chrome and ex -ecute strides of cobalt nevertheless i feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am becoming something a little different, in fact myself hereupon helpless i utter lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings

Andrea Bocelli

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.

E. M. Forster

She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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 Day

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

Andrew Bird

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.

Robert A. Heinlein

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.

Carlo LoParo

We are hopeful that the judge will see the merits of our argument.

Tim Hodson

Union issues by and large are payroll issues, which are very visible in the state budget and in turn make it easier to demonize. But it's a very one-sided argument to attack labor as if there is no such thing as corporate contributions.

Dan Mullen

Because we feel there was a good-faith argument to make that the statute as written was constitutional, we feel we have an obligation to make that argument if at all possible.

Andrew Mitchell

My argument is that charity does indeed start at home, but it doesn't stop there.

Brian Rolston

Maybe. You could make an argument for it. The bottom line is you give that team (Detroit) any time with the puck, they're going to make plays.

Greg Taxin

It is a sad day in the history of a public company when its best argument is that it previously filed false statements with the SEC.

Ellen Gordon

I think there's a natural argument between the tongue and the teeth. I barely ever get there without biting.

American Society

I think there's an argument that can be made to say they should be more lenient,

Steven Aftergood

I think there is enormous understanding and tolerance for an argument from necessity, and there's willingness to retroactively forgive what might strictly speaking be violations of the law.

Tim Ferriss

You can lose money and make it back, you can't do that with time.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It is better to lose than never to have had.

Edith Piaf

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

Darren Johnson

Do not lose hope in what the universe has placed you here to do.