Short Sighted Quotes

39 quotes by 38 authors

I am endeavoring to steer gymnastics out of a dead end that satisfies only a handful of short-sighted individuals with nostalgia for an era gone… — Bruno Grandi
The laws by which the Divine Ruler of the universe has decreed an indissoluble connection between public happiness and private virtue, whatever apparent exceptions may… — William Cabell Rives
What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to fool.… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out… — Bobby Flay
A U. S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and… — David Foster
Itâ€™s short-sighted to think ads wonâ€™t one day end up wherever humans are - even the moon. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer"… — Sydney J. Harris
Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war. — B. H. Liddell Hart
Society today is being fragmented by a way of thinking that is inherently short-sighted because it disregards the full horizon of truth - the truth… — Pope Benedict XVI
Living to create an earthly legacy is a short-sighted goal. — Rick Warren
The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I have… — Anthony Burgess
Small, short-sighted, blonde, barbed - she reminds me of a bright little hedgehog. — Edwina Currie
It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was… — Maurice Nicoll
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
Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are a result of… — Walter E. Williams
He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans. — Khalil Gibran
It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men. — Rodney Stark
If you borrow money to make money, you've done something magical. On the other hand, if you go into debt to pay your bills or… — Seth Godin
Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted… — Naveen Jain
It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to pick up the… — Calvin Seerveld

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