Sight Quotes

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Oh! now to be alone, on some grand height, Where heaven’s black curtains shadow all the sight, And watch the swollen clouds their bosom clash,… — Robert Montgomery
Say that Congress legislates gasoline price controls that sets a maximum price of $1 a gallon. As sure as night follows day, there'd be long… — Walter E. Williams
When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with… — Saint Augustine
Byrd, the former Klu [sic] Klux Klan Kleagle, is taking a stand over states' rights, or his rights over State, or some such. Whatever the… — Mark Steyn
Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens… — Simone Weil
There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there is… — Percival Lowell
Use the Light that dwells within you to regain your natural clarity of sight. — Laozi
But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun. — Meher Baba
Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when one gives his or her order to produce a definite result and… — Alexander Graham Bell
A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written. — Theodor Haecker
The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight. — Rabindranath Tagore
The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye. — Henry Ward Beecher
Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires! — George Herbert
When I get angry, it's with purpose. My purpose is to solve a problem. And I never lose sight of that. — Jon Taffer
The Procrastinator has the opposite problem. He can’t selectively focus his attention and might endure frequent accusations about his laziness. In truth, he’s so distracted… — Kate Kelly
A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one,… — Michel de Montaigne
Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most… — Eric Hoffer
Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things… — Joseph Addison
The technique of winning is so shoddy, the terms of winning are so ignoble, the tenure of winning is so brief; and the specter of… — Louis Kronenberger
The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego. — Marya Mannes
Never lose sight of an antelope for a dashing squirrel. — PLO Lumumba

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