Quotes about sight
sight feeling-down feelings
Whenever you're feeling down..And I am not around let the sight of me be the reason you smile Shahrukh Khan
sight mind patterns
And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals. Ralph Ellison
sight age wish
In framing a system, which we wish to last for ages, we should not lose sight of the changes which ages will produce. James Madison
sight sometimes hiding
Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that's in plain sight. Stephenie Meyer
sight soul vision
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul! Thomas Gray
sight covenant add
The oath adds nothing to the obligation. For a covenant, if lawful, binds in the sight of God, without the oath, as much as with it; if unlawful, bindeth not at all, though it be confirmed with an oath. Thomas Hobbes
sight shining sun
As in the presence of the Master, the Servants are equall, and without any honour at all; So are the Subjects, in the presence of the Soveraign. And though they shine some more, some lesse, when they are out of his sight; yet in his presence, they shine no more than the Starres in presence of the Sun.
sight goal sides
Their goal was in sight. They had a Titan with a very loud kitten on their side. That had to count for something. Rick Riordan
sight trying want
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. Steve Vai
sight talking feet
Grace (talking about Sam): At the sight of him, my stomach slid down to my feet, a weird combination of relief, nerves, and anticipation all in one, a feeling that never seemed to go away. Maggie Stiefvater
sight losing
I was losing sight of the wolf ahead of me; the one inside me seemed closer all of a sudden.
sight world firsts
The world needs more love at first sight.
sight architecture approach
The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music which one hears for one's good as one approaches it. [Fr., La vue d'un tel monument est comme une musique continuelle et fixee qui vous attend pour vous faire du bien quand vous vous en approchez.] Madame de Stael
sight order liberty
We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down. William F. Buckley, Jr.
sight matter loses
No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are. Yanni
sight feelings mind
There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought. Zora Neale Hurston
sight use oneself
To examine oneself makes good use of sight. Zhuangzi
sight firsts tire
A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight. Samuel Johnson
sight ease forget
Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.
sight imagination world
it is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world ... Sarah Orne Jewett
sight blossoming sun
The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.
sight light bird
At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply. Wallace Stevens
sight preparation needs
On the whole, the life of a chess professional is not as easy as it appears at first sight. One needs to devote some ten hours a day to chess and to everything connected with it - physical and psycholgical preparation. Vladimir Kramnik
sight justice peculiar
To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and its peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one thing: it is the purity and beauty of a failure. Walter Benjamin
sight profound long
Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it ... Virginia Woolf
sight world christ
In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come. Walter Lang
sight earthquakes secret
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. Voltaire
sight dust telescopes
New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of the dust mite. But turn the question around: Do new things make for new ways of seeing? William Least Heat-Moon
sight upset sometimes
Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths. Walter Dean Myers
sight earth pages
The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward. It carries the call of the Saviour to the remotest corners of the earth; on its pages are written the assurances of the present and our hopes for the future William Jennings Bryan
sight mind age
The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries. Woodrow Wilson
sight perspective shifting
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. William James
sight mind growing
The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this the progressive "condensation" of thought. ... Steps really sink from sight. An advanced thinker sees the relations of his topics is such masses and so instantaneously that when he comes to explain to younger minds it is often hard ... Bowditch, who translated and annotated Laplace's Méchanique Céleste, said that whenever his author prefaced a proposition by the words "it is evident," he knew that many hours of hard study lay before him.