Sight Quotes
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Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
Oscar Wilde -
We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
Rachel Cusk
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
Karl Marx -
And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.
Hal Borland -
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
W. Somerset Maugham -
What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
Sam Francis -
Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.
Saint Augustine
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
T. C. Boyle -
Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
Rachel Johnson -
Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
Usain Bolt -
Baby, everything is alright, uptight, out of sight.
Stevie Wonder -
I haven't let the gold medal out of my sight; it sleeps next to me in bed.
Magdalena Neuner -
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
Edna Ferber
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Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.
Alyssa Milano -
It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.
Sue Miller -
Is it not worrying in itself that European Christianity is now barely able to keep Europe Christian? If we lose sight of this, the idea of Europe could become a minority interest in its own continent.
Viktor Orban -
I'm like a sight gag.
Adam Driver -
There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.
Nadeem Aslam -
I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
Otto von Bismarck
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The walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight.
A. R. Ammons -
Dear God, I am only what you made me and I appreciate everything that you gave me, but like, I don't want to do it any more, sort of lost sight of what I'm doing it for.
Nicki Minaj -
This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.
Edmond Halley -
That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
Harlan Coben