Sight Quotes - page 2

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone. (Henry David Thoreau)
I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. View quote
Alexander Pope
She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight. View quote
E. M. Forster
If America forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution. View quote
Carl Sandburg
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. View quote
Maya Angelou
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. View quote
Joseph Addison
All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us and we must walk that road to the end. View quote
Neil Gaiman
And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind. View quote
Thomas à Kempis
A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest. (Oscar Wilde)
Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight. View quote
Neal Stephenson
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Imagination travels faster than sight. Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Love at first sight I absolutely believe in it You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea that you could see someone tomorrow and she could be the love of your life It's very romantic. View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision. View quote
Helen Keller
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. View quote
Helen Keller
The sight of you is good for sore eyes. View quote
Jonathan Swift
I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems. View quote
Keanu Reeves
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century. (James Russell Lowell)
Great God I 'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. View quote
William Wordsworth
She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn. View quote
William Wordsworth
What though the radiance which was once so bright; Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour; Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find; Strength in what remains behin. View quote
William Wordsworth
It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight. View quote
Annie Besant
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