Sight Quotes - page 3

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. (Lewis Mumford)
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people. View quote
George Mason
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. View quote
Victor Hugo
Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight, When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight. View quote
Isaac Watts
I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun. View quote
Katharine Hepburn
Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it'' View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A sight to dream of, not to tell. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers. View quote
Adam Smith
Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight. (Colum McCann)
Hence, as the line of sight to the upper part is the longer, it makes that part look as if it were leaning back. But when the members are inclined to the front, as described above, they will seem the beholder to be plumb and perpendicular. View quote
Vitruvius
Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country. View quote
Pierre Loti
Worry is spiritual short sight... Its cure is intelligent faith. View quote
Paul Brunton
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. View quote
Amy Bloom
My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me. View quote
Bobby Darin
What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them. View quote
Jock Sturges
Depression is something that makes you lose your sight. View quote
Michael Schenker
Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category. View quote
Robert Jay Lifton
I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player. View quote
Sue Wicks
The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse above the clouds beyond the sight of lesser men, a concept seldom applied to those who worked with colours until the nineteenth century. When the inevitable question is asked, "Why are there no great women artists?" it is this dimension of art that is implied. The askers know little of art, but they know the seven wonders of the painting world. (Germaine Greer)
The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words. View quote
Charles Sumner
The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it. View quote
Israel Zangwill
I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne. View quote
John Hay
The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël