Sight Quotes

• Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life, in actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.

  

  Plotinus
  • Sight
  • Addresses
  • Chiefly

• Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • Business
  • Moments

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

  

  Stewart Brand
  • Sight
  • Draw
  • Labyrinth

• Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Eye
  • Insult
  • Mines

• And as she jogged out of sight, they could hear her muttering, "Tentacula. Devil's Snare. And Snargaluff pods. Yes, I'd like to see Death Eaters fighting those.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • She
  • Death
  • Fighting

• The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Lovers
  • Sight

• No matter how many times I witness the miracle of someone having their sight restored, I'm still overwhelmed with emotion. When the eye patch comes off just 24 hours after surgery and you see that smile light up the room, you are witnessing a life being transformed.

  

  Gabi Hollows
  • Life
  • Up
  • Light

• As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Girl
  • Language
  • Laughter

• Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Body
  • Sight

• Love is the kind of thing that's already happening by the time you notice it, that's how it works, and no matter how old you get, that doesn't change. Except that you can break it up into two entirely distinct types -- love where there's an end in sight and love where there isn't.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Up
  • Time
  • Love

• We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Music
  • Boy
  • Scouts

• At first sight of the Acropolis: It's beige! My color!

  

  Elsie de Wolfe
  • Color
  • Sight
  • Acropolis

• If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole; because their thoughts will be carried back to that earlier time when life seemed so fair as it lay spread out before them in the rosy light of dawn, promised so much — and then performed so little.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Light
  • Disappointment
  • Sight

• Never, ever lose sight of the power of one individual American. They can have an unbelievable magnifying affect just by the very fact they make up their mind to do so!

  

  H. L. Richardson
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Power

• Second sight is redundant to reason anyway.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Reason
  • Sight
  • Redundant

• When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with the nature of the world than the sowing of seeds, the planting of cuttings, the transplanting of shrubs or the grafting of slips?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Men
  • Done

• The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.

  

  Helen Keller
  • People
  • Vision
  • Sight

• The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day -- usually with TV cameras focused on them.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Light
  • Successful
  • Sight

• In order to get to the other side of the shore, you have to lose sight of this one!

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Order
  • Sides
  • Loses

• The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Sun
  • Delight
  • Radiant

• They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Appearance
  • Sight
  • Avoid

• By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heaven
  • Sight
  • Splendid

• It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • Firsts
  • Minutes
  • Five

• These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on the far side of a great divide in time, as significant as B.C. and A.D. Before prison, before the war, before the sight of a corpse became a banality.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Time
  • Great
  • War

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