Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Hugo

For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

Victor Hugo

As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.

Victor Hugo

No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.

Veronica Roth

Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache.

Richard Bach

Flyers fell a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in one sweeping view, in reassurance that nature still exists on her own, without a chain-link fence to hold her.

Thomas F. Wilson

The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions.

Sam Harris

Meditation ... puts into question more or less everything you tend to do in your search for happiness. But if you lose sight of this, it can become just another strategy for seeking happiness a more refined version of the problem you already have.

Russell Simmons

American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.

Roger Federer

My aim over the next few months is that I have a lot of points to defend in Miami and Hamburg, after that I can set my sights on No. 1.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Everything looks like a failure in the middle. In neary every change project, doubt is cast on the original vision because problems are mounting and the end is nowhere in sight.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

Geneva has a long history of hosting international organizations, which is part of the reason why CERN is here. CERN has signed agreements with the ITU, WIPO and the WMO. At first sight, there may not seem to be much common ground between CERN and, say, the World Meteorological Organization, but scratch the surface, and you'll soon find a common thread. All of these organizations have a vocation to stimulate technological innovation, and together we're stronger.

Roger Zelazny

Two days like icebergs bleak, blank, half-melting, all frigid, mainly out of sight, and definitely a threat to peace of mind drifted by and were good to put behind.

Roland Barthes

The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and because in it nothing can be refused or transformed (that we can sometimes call it mild does not contradict its violence: many say that sugar is mild, but to me sugar is violent, and I call it so).

Roland Barthes

Le toucher est le plus de mystificateur de tous les sens, a' la diffe rence de la vue, qui est le plus magique. Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.

Roland Barthes

The necessary condition for an image is sight,

Sting

I don't like singing before noon.

Stewart Brand

There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.

Rosemary Mahoney

Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses.

Ryan Cabrera

Sometimes the most happy people in life are the ones with nothing. We can't lose sight of the little things in life that should make us the happiest.

Wally Amos

We are so focused on the material aspects of life that we lose sight of everything else.

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.

Utada Hikaru

There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.

Usain Bolt

Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

Sophocles

No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.

Sophocles

And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.

Stephen King

In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.

Thomas Mann

Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim.

Tony Juniper

We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics

Tony Dungy

It's easy to lose sight of the ultimate goal when you're in the trenches.

Tony Dungy

If we lose sight of people, we lose sight of the very purpose of leadership.

Tom Welling

I like being in new places and seeing new sights.

Steve Martin

The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the Matisse stood firm in the de-escalating illumination, its beauty turning functionality inside out, making itself a more practical and useful presence than anything else in sight.

Simon Cowell

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.