The Sight Quotes

Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

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 no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.

It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.

Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.

contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love.

A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight.

I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.

I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.

I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South.

Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's eyes.

Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?

Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.

The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin.

Just write the best you can about the things that concern you most. I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

Seeing is such a privilege. Who notices the way the screech of a gull looks, the look of a gale, the sight of some fragrance?

Many in Jesus' day saw him, but they didn't have communion with him. You can have more of Christ by faith than they had by sight.

Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?

In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.

Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight.

See your target. Keep it in your sight. Hit it... until you hit it.

For me, teaching helps to reaffirm the right principles and values of acting. It helps me focus on the good stuff that can be easy to lose sight of because the business is so result-oriented.

As soon as you see what you're looking at you have a name for it. You don't see it. The whole process of your thinking is not to see. You overcome sight by thinking.

I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool.

People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.

There is nothing in cricket more calculated to raise a laugh than the sight of some determined and serious man under a spiralling catch.

Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth , umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight?

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

It is impossible for forward play to be quite as safe as back play, because there must be a moment when the ball is out of sight.

As the telescope is not a substitute for, but an aid to, our sight, so revelation is not designed to supersede the use of reason, but to supply its deficiencies.

Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

Learn to see the big picture. Often times we get tunnel vision and lose sight of the big picture and what we're really trying to accomplish.

My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.

The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.

It's always hard to be away and relocate. When you relocate for a film, there's an end in sight.

There are few sights more pleasant to the eye, than a wide cotton field when it is in the bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.

Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.

It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.

Love is in the air everywhere I look around. Love is in the air every sight and every sound.

The artful pitcher must take the inevitable peaks and valleys of pitching in stride and never give in to the batters or lose sight of his/her own strengths.

As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.

Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.

I am one of you and being one of you is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary Angel of earth, since, in my sight, you see the earth again.

The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.

Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)

Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

I looked at an angel today, but the angel could not see me. The angel was more amazing than beautiful, like the best forgotten dream.

We simply can’t feel fulfilled by love we pay for.