Within Sight Quotes
11 quotes by 10 authors
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Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it
— George Bernard Shaw
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Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within…
— George Eliot
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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three…
— Emily Bronte
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I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to…
— George Eliot
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Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight…
— John Desmond Bernal
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The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and…
— William Jennings Bryan
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And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful…
— Max Ehrmann
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When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another…
— Charles Dickens
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I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful city…
— Marcus Brigstocke
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...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get…
— Frederick Douglass
Who Wrote These Within Sight Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 11 Within Sight Quotes as follows: