Sight Quotes

2271 Sight quotes by 1583 unique authors

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, While… — William Shakespeare
A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights. — Charles Simic
What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing. You boldly settle… — Anton Chekhov
no reason to mention my peculiarities, my wandering in the maze these many years, shut away from sight. and from love, too. — Jeffrey Eugenides
What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight. — Charles Baxter
Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes. — William Shakespeare
And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the city,… — Milan Kundera
My understanding of the meaning of a book is that the book itself disappears from sight, that it is chewed alive, digested and incorporated into… — Henry Miller
Catching sight of himself in the long mirrors that ran along the walls, he stiffened in shock...His eyes were surrounded by black shadows, his shirt… — Cassandra Clare
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too.… — Simone de Beauvoir
Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content… — Robert M. Pirsig
...a man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed… — John Calvin
EVERYONE suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging wildly across the white Orchards… — Siegfried Sassoon
A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh.… — Kevin Brockmeier
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is ... — Miyamoto Musashi
A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their… — Thomas Jefferson
In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers… — Stephen King
It’s possible, I’m moving through the hard veins of heavy mountains, like an arc, alone; I’m so deep inside, I see no end in sight,… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, "You have no need for sight. Listen. — Ann Patchett
It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness: cut out the… — John Steinbeck
For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it… — Virginia Woolf
And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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