Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Thomas a Kempis

And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind.

Thomas a Kempis

Praise adds nothing to your holiness, nor does blame take anything from it. You are what you are, and you cannot be said to be better than you are in God's sight.

Thomas a Kempis

Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.

Thomas a Kempis

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Simon Conway Morris

When discussing organic evolution the only point of agreement seems to be: ‘It happened.’ Thereafter, there is little consensus, which at first sight must seem rather odd.

Sheila Johnson

Don't ever lose sight of who you are and your own power.

Sheila Johnson

Don't stop setting your sights high because of some young guy.

Shane West

It's always hard to be away and relocate. When you relocate for a film, there's an end in sight.

Natalie Merchant

I’ve always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, I’ve never lost sight of that.

Maria Sharapova

I don't get to do as much sightseeing as I would like to.

Maureen Johnson

I envisioned huge piles of the Elf Hotel flying off the belt, taking down everybody in sight. I had seen pictures of that Elf Hotel - it had sharp candy-cane spires that could easily impale someone. If anyone was ever going to be killed by an Elf Hotel, it would be my parents.

Neal Stephenson

The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness

Neale Donald Walsch

Everything is "acceptable" in the sight of God, for how can God not accept that which is? To reject a thing is to deny that it exists.

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.

Peter Singer

Those who purchase meat, fur, and leather have no right to be shielded from the sights and sounds of the slaughterhouses from which these products were produced.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.

Paul Dirac

I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical scheme, even if the scheme does not appear at first sight to be connected with physics. One should concentrate on getting interesting mathematics.

Peter Greenaway

We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less. If we lose sight of that perspective, everything can desperately suffer.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mont Blanc yet gleams on high: the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights And many sounds, and much of life and death. In the long glare of day, the snows descend Upon that Mountain; none beholds them there, Nor when the flakes burn in the sinking sun, Or the sunbeams dart through them.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.

Meher Baba

But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.

Mary Oliver

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Martin Amis

Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions.

Pope Benedict XVI

Every human life is precious in God's sight and no effort should be spared in the attempt to promote throughout the world a genuine respect for the inalienable rights and dignity of individuals and peoples everywhere.

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.