Sight Quotes

2271 Sight quotes by 1583 unique authors

We thought everybody knew by now that barrel length has almost nothing to do with accuracy. I believe the myth of the superior accuracy of… — Jeff Cooper
Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that… — Unknown Author
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight. — Edna Ferber
We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics — Tony Juniper
If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished. Without… — Thomas Berry
The sight of him did something to me I've never quite been able to explain. He was more than tremendous speed and beauty of motion.… — Walt Morey
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul! — Thomas Gray
It's been written that the most sublime figure in American history was George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge. He personified… — Ronald Reagan
The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive… — Alice Walker
Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Listen close and you can hear, Please, bless us and forgive us, and make us good here and strong here. Let us get along here.… — Janet Morris
My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about… — John Keats
That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight for such a… — Emily Perkins
Flyers fell a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in one sweeping view,… — Richard Bach
The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight,… — Remy de Gourmont
No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work… — Thomas Carlyle
As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity:… — Thomas Paine
It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest. — Oscar Wilde
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime… — John Milton
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead… — Herman Melville
Some think I wink at them when I shut my eyes to avoid their sight. — Khalil Gibran
If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous… — Deborah Lipstadt
I doubt that the phenomenon was any terrestrial reflection, because... nothing of the kind has ever appeared before or since... I was so unprepared for… — Clyde Tombaugh
Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth,… — John Keats
Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one. — Evan Esar

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