Sight Quotes

2271 Sight quotes by 1583 unique authors

More grievous than tears is the sight of them. — Antonio Porchia
If we are deeply moved by the sight of his love for us, it detaches our hearts from other would-be saviors. We stop trying to… — Timothy Keller
Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But… — Laozi
When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a camera,… — Annie Dillard
The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with. — Samuel Johnson
It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our… — George Santayana
It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents. — Lord Chesterfield
One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul. — Alexander Pope
Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food,… — Diane Ackerman
A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight. — Herman Wouk
The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from… — Alfred North Whitehead
Things seen are mightier than things heard. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at… — Laurence Sterne
It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. — Ayn Rand
Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come;… — Madame de Stael
A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's… — Jeremy Rifkin
I like prostitution. My heart has never failed to pound at the sight of one of those provocatively dressed women walking in the rain under… — Gustave Flaubert
Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more. — Susan Sontag
The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the… — John Jay Chapman
Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles'; she… — John Lahr
My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who… — Geoffrey Fisher
New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of the… — William Least Heat-Moon
I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging like the oversized… — Maureen Howard
I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch. — Jean Nouvel

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