He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge. — David Mellor Copy Share Image
Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy! — Edwin Drake Copy Share Image
Disgracefully, the arts have too often borne the brunt of short-sighted cuts to educational budgets. — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
It’s short-sighted to think ads won’t one day end up wherever humans are - even the moon. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
It's very short-sighted and even dangerous to be engaging in the kind of demagogic rhetoric that Donald has about Muslims. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
It is both wrong and short-sighted to believe that we can better protect our national security interests by ignoring or sidelining human… — Todd Young Copy Share Image
It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that… — Maurice Nicoll Copy Share Image
It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men. — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
If you do your work, if you are committed at the grassroots level, if you have a vision for the long run… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted. — Bethany McLean Copy Share Image
We're going to go to the moon. We're going to go on to Mars. We're going to set up a base on… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
What does patience mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see… — Shams Tabrizi Copy Share Image
Deep down, everything boils down ("au fond tout se ramène", Fr.) to the following simple question; Do we really want justice and… — African Spir Copy Share Image
If you borrow money to make money, you've done something magical. On the other hand, if you go into debt to pay… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“In case you’re short on definitions, here’s one. Insanity: ‘Destroying the very things that sustain us.’ And if we’re so short-sighted so… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
It is a cause of shame to any member of the human race to be a member of the same species some… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I am not surprised that men who put their trust in an atom should fail in their slightest attempts to plumb truth,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The antagonism between science and religion, about which we hear so much, appears to me to be purely factitiousfabricated, on the one… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
How can we speak of Democracy or Freedom when from the very beginning of life we mould the child to undergo tyranny,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
Do too many executives still indulge in the short-sighted habit of issuing orders without taking the slightest pains to explain to those… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I've found him to be a disappointment. Wonderful speech in Egypt, and good intentions aside, foreign policy needs to be firmly grounded… — Munir Butt Copy Share Image
Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite… — Loraine Boettner Copy Share Image
People are often short-sighted, but I have to think of the long-term goal. — Michael van Gerwen Copy Share Image
Why should your background be held against you? It is so short-sighted. — Alexander Armstrong Copy Share Image
I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off. — Jenny Eclair Copy Share Image
I'm too short-sighted, too squeamish for contact lenses and too vain for glasses. — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
“He was dreadfully short-sighted, and there was no pleasure in taking a husband who never sees anything.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted. — John Philpot Curran Copy Share Image
Small, short-sighted, blonde, barbed - she reminds me of a bright little hedgehog. — Edwina Currie Copy Share Image
Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching.… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
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