Sight Quotes

2271 Sight quotes by 1583 unique authors

Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the… — C.S. Lewis
Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer.… — Oswald Chambers
There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of… — Zora Neale Hurston
I gazed around the room and my eyes stopped dead on a little boy standing in the corner. This was a particularly eerie doll. Life-sized… — Augusten Burroughs
As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that… — Dante Alighieri
my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp… — E E Cummings
Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years… — S E Hinton
But let us not put our sights too high. We do not have to be saviours of the world! We are simply human beings, enfolded… — Jean Vanier
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. — Vladimir Nabokov
Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts. — Wystan Hugh Auden
If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it. — Gregory Maguire
I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing I had seen in three years. That the sight of her yawning to… — Patrick Rothfuss
People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their… — Ann Brashares
This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything. — Jonathan Carroll
It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon. — Galileo Galilei
There in the city's steam-and-smoke-smudged harbor is the most extraordinary sight of all: a great copper-clad lady with a torch in one hand and a… — Libba Bray
That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book,… — Mary Ann Shaffer
come back so i can say yes this time do it again now that i know what to call what you did this time i'll… — Daphne Gottlieb
..this indiscriminate love feels entirely serious to her, as if everything in the world is part of a vast, inscrutable intention and everything in the… — Michael Cunningham
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to… — William S. Burroughs
Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth. — Margaret Atwood
The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if… — Daniel Handler
I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights. — Dr. Seuss
I followed her into the library. The pale light from our chamber below dissipated in the room, but I could still make out – my… — Keith Donohue

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