Sight Quotes

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The bravest sight in all this world is a man fighting against odds. — Franklin Knight Lane
Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent… — Rudolf Arnheim
The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes… — Oscar W. Firkins
It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs… — Christine Lavin
A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it. — Louis L'Amour
And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind. — Thomas a Kempis
For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Why is it that when a baby is born, we often refer to him or her as 'the miracle of life' but then we accept… — Hal Elrod
I think if we all gardened more, they and all of the other birds that fly in the air above and light in my garden… — Vigen Guroian
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I am standing on the seashore. A ship spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the ocean. I stand watching her… — Henry Scott Holland
I've visited the future and I've seen the Heavenly City standing upon this Earth!-Beautiful, gorgeous, incomparable, almost indescribable, the most gorgeous sight you'll ever want… — David Berg
Sight is not absolutely essential in this process, but we use sight because it is the dominant sense. It's easiest to interrupt the flow of… — Frederick Lenz
Probably if half a kilogram [of radium] were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all. It would almost certainly destroy our… — William Crookes
Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far… — John Ruskin
If it were not for the outside world, we would have no inside world to understand things by. Least of all could we understand God… — George MacDonald
At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing. — Nicolas Chamfort
Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of… — Michel de Montaigne
We live by information, not by sight. — Baltasar Gracian
Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling… — William Wordsworth
When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to… — Plato
Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present,… — Benjamin Franklin

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