Sighted Quotes

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While flying with several other USAF pilots over Germany in 1957, we sighted numerous radiant flying discs above us. We couldn't tell how high they… — Gordon Cooper
Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among the… — Charles Lindbergh
English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified… — Cyril Connolly
Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer"… — Sydney J. Harris
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. — Agnes Repplier
Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war. — B. H. Liddell Hart
Society today is being fragmented by a way of thinking that is inherently short-sighted because it disregards the full horizon of truth - the truth… — Pope Benedict XVI
I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people — Doc Watson
Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean, using the lessons of the… — Gretel Ehrlich
Living to create an earthly legacy is a short-sighted goal. — Rick Warren
The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I have… — Anthony Burgess
Small, short-sighted, blonde, barbed - she reminds me of a bright little hedgehog. — Edwina Currie
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles,… — Jules de Goncourt
It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was… — Maurice Nicoll
It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are a result of… — Walter E. Williams
He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans. — Khalil Gibran
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader,… — Alberto Manguel
I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think of no more… — Robert Henri
It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men. — Rodney Stark

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