Sight Quotes
2271 Sight quotes by 1583 unique authors
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Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes one a committed…
— Robert Sheaffer
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Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your own…
— Criss Jami
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I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful city…
— Marcus Brigstocke
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There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Once in pre-war days, when curiously-bonneted women drivers were familiar sights at the taxi-wheels, I cried out to one in my dismay: "Is there no…
— Alexander Woollcott
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Mont Blanc yet gleams on high: the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights And many sounds, and much of life…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The Lord of Thunder,…
— Hartley Coleridge
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I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility.
— Elvis Costello
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I have a belief that if I wear my placenta in a necklace, there's a possibility of me gaining second sight - like being psychic.…
— Kesha
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
— Andre Gide
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
— Andre Gide
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For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
— Germaine Greer
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If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.
— Simon Cowell
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Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
— Marie Curie
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
— Rachel Cusk
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With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first…
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely…
— Emily Dickinson
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I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
— Walt Disney
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
— Leo Durocher
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If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move…
— Eleanora Duse
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I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl…
— Zac Efron
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