Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.

Alan Jackson

Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke rising against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor, or did you just sit down and cry?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith is a re-directing of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus.

Edmond Halley

This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.

Derek Jarman

On December 22, 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret Thatcher. I did. Now I have set my sights on the millennium and a world where we are all equal.

Denzel Washington

I walk by faith, not by sight.

Denis Waitley

Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks.

Charlotte Bronte

The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure.

Charles de Lint

Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in language or music. And with the sight...

Charles de Lint

The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

Charles Lamb

We are ashamed at the sight of a monkey--somehow as we are shy of poor relations.

Charles Baudelaire

Oh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might not have invented themselves?

Charles Simic

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

Bill Maher

It was quite a sight to see Obama next to President Hu. Obama has a Nobel Peace Prize in his basement, and Hu has a Nobel Peace Prize winner in his.

Benjamin Hoff

There are things about ourselves that we need to get rid of; there are things we need to change. But at the same time, we do not need to be too desperate, too ruthless, too combative. Along the way to usefulness and happiness, many of those things will change themselves, and the others can be worked on as we go. The first thing we need to do is recognize and trust our own Inner Nature, and not lose sight of it.

Benjamin Hoff

Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They're not only the ending, but the beginning as well.

Bryan Stevenson

But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.

Cesare Pavese

Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.

Carl Jung

A sign is always less than the thing it points to, and a symbol is always more than we can understand at first sight. Therefore we stop at the sign but go on to the goal it indicates; but we remain with the symbol because it promises more than it reveals.

Deepak Chopra

When I make the effort to pay attention to the sights, sounds and sensations around me, I’m encouraging myself to live in the present moment.

Arthur Golden

I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Advertising prods people into wanting more and better things. Of course advertising makes people dissatisfied with what they have - makes them raise their sights. Mighty good thing it does. Nothing could be worse for the United States than 200,000,000 satisfied Americans.

William Shakespeare

Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.

Dave Barry

What I want to know is: Why is it important to have visible stomach muscles? I grew up in an era (the Paleolithic) when people kept their stomach muscles discreetly out of sight.

That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.

Auguste Rodin

In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct nature, I incorporate myself into it; it directs me. I can only work with a model. The sight of human forms nourishes and comforts me.

Arthur Koestler

We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as mere playful whimsies such as Apollonius' work on conic sections, or the non-Euclidean geometries, whose practical value became apparent only later.

Audie Murphy

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

Benjamin Banneker

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

Brian Tracy

To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.

Brian Tracy

The future of network marketing is unlimited. There's no end in sight. It will continue to grow because better people are getting into it . . . soon, it will be one of the most respected business methods in the world.

Brian Tracy

The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight.

Brian Henson

I was 17, certainly by the time I was 19, I knew that show business was where I was going to end up, and I had my sights on being a director.