Sights Quotes

195 Sights quotes by 183 unique authors

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for… — Norman Vincent Peale
Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina… — Pat Conroy
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
I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights. — Dr. Seuss
You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights. — Dr. Seuss
The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells, too, by Jove! -… — Joseph Conrad
We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to… — Jacqueline Carey
Where I went in my travels, it's impossible for me to recall. I remember the sights and sounds and smells clearly enough, but the names… — Haruki Murakami
One day, I stopped hating. I ceased all meaningless activity. I completed the circle. I Set my sights straight. Like an Arrow I flew. I… — Henry Rollins
Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems… — Sherwood Smith
It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart and brain, instantly… — Diana Gabaldon
There are few sights sadder than a ruined book. — Daniel Handler
People just... disappear," he says. "The Earth just opens up and swallows people," I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. "Eerie." Kimball yawns, stretching.… — Bret Easton Ellis
Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon. — Daniel H. Pink
No, whoever was out there didn't want to take her in. But his sights were on her, gun sights, steady. Clear. She stared into them,… — Lora Leigh
When a woman is frozen of feeling, when she can no longer feel herself, when her blood, her passion, no longer reach the extremities of… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never… — Philippa Gregory
I want to experience as many different tastes, sights, emotions, conflicts, and cultures as possible, so that I can expand the canvas of my memory… — Patton Oswalt
The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the… — Wilfred Owen
Here I am flying high over enemy lines in my Sopwith Camel searching for the Red Baron. Who's that behind me? It's the Red Baron!… — Charles M. Schulz
Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Stuart stands and says, 'Come here,' and he's on my side of the room in one stride and he claps my hands to his hips… — Kathryn Stockett
No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power… — Arthur C. Clarke
He just didn't look like the kind of creep that would messily murder a woman in her hotel room; he looked like the kind of… — Karen Marie Moning

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