Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Russell Lowell

With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer.

Laurence Sterne

Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at first sight; it is ye who open the door and let the stranger in.

Laurence Sterne

Sight is by much the noblest of the senses. We receive our notices from the other four, through the organs of sensation only. We hear, we feel, we smell, we taste, by touch. But sight rises infinitely higher. It is refined above matter, and equals the faculty of spirit.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered, because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.

John Charles Polanyi

It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.

Eric Hoffer

Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.

Orhan Pamuk

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

Orison Swett Marden

There's no grander sight in the world than that of a person fired with a great purpose, dominated by one unwavering aim.

Ellen G. White

Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.

Ellen G. White

False religion may prevail, iniquity may abound, the love of many may wax cold, the cross of Calvary may be lost sight of, and darkness, like the pall of death, may spread over the world; the whole force of the popular current may be formed to overthrow the people of God; but in the hour of greatest peril the God of Elijah will raise up human instrumentalities to bear a message that will not be silenced.

We still have our sights set on the WCHA (title).

Louise Hay

I awaken today, appreciating everything in sight, and I give thanks.

Mao Zedong

The most effective method of propaganda directed at the enemy forces is to release captured soldiers and give the wounded medical treatment... Whenever soldiers of enemy forces are captured, we immediately conduct propaganda among them...This immediately knocks the bottom out of the enemy's slander that the Communist bandits kill everyone on sight.

Louisa May Alcott

Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -

John Green

The minister said, “Let us pray,” but as everyone else bowed their head, I could only stare slack-jawed at the sight of Peter Van Houten. After a moment, he whispered, “We gotta fake pray,” and bowed his head.

John Fowles

Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation.

John F. Kennedy

If we are to go only halfway or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty... it would be better to not go at all.

Jonathan Edwards

true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.

Joyce Carol Oates

Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.

Judith McNaught

I buy everything in sight. It took my last ounce of control not to buy one of these in every color.

Joseph Lelyveld

By the time Gandhi met Muhammad Ali in Delhi in April 1915it was, Gandhi said, 'love at first sight.'

Katherine Center

Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful.

James Madison

In framing a system, which we wish to last for ages, we should not lose sight of the changes which ages will produce.

Emma Goldman

Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them; besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will break easily, and the interior is anything but a gainly sight.

John Hewson

We've lost sight of our role in the region and our view of our colleagues in the region.

John Hodgman

It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn't have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does - his is in plain sight.

John Millington Synge

A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam.

John Cale

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

John Calvin

No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight.

John Bates Clark

A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable.

John Berger

The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.

Frankie Valli

Pardon the way that I stare, there's nothing else to compare. The sight of you leaves me weak, there are no words left to speak.

George Crabbe

Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And shed their substance on the floating air.