Sight Quotes

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We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people,… — Annie Dillard
All that a spectator gets out of the game is fresh air, the comical articles in his program, the sight of twenty-two young men rushing… — Robert Benchley
And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage. — Mao Zedong
Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before them,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly. — Sophocles
Virtually nothing can stop a man who has a goal clearly in sight. — Denis Waitley
The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened… — George Orwell
It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him… — Michel de Montaigne
This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I am a Black revolutionary woman, and because of this i have been charged with and accused of every alleged crime in which a woman… — Assata Shakur
Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the… — Edgar Allan Poe
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them. — Oscar Wilde
In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties… — Samuel Adams
To examine oneself makes good use of sight. — Zhuangzi
The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
We've gone astray from first principles. We've lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything that… — Ronald Reagan
It meant that Diana had not waited for any explanation, however halting and imperfect, but had condemned him unheard; and this showed a much harder,… — Patrick O'Brian
The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent. — Henry David Thoreau
A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights. — John Steinbeck
Never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used so ineffectively, and if after all of this time, and all of this… — Richard M. Nixon
Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor… — Ted Koppel
There's no grander sight in the world than that of a person fired with a great purpose, dominated by one unwavering aim. — Orison Swett Marden
All the great Founders of religions have been possessed of clairvoyant sight. — Rudolf Steiner

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