Sights Quotes

195 Sights quotes by 183 unique authors

If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing… — Cornelia Funke
I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or… — Jesse Owens
A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights. — Charles Simic
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
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
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

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