The Sight Quotes

With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer.

It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch.

I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies.

This great American institution [Boy Scouts of America] has come under attack from homosexual activists-who may well set their sights on your church next.

As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.

I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing.

Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

I'm proud of what I have accomplished so far in my career, but the finish line is nowhere in sight. Still, it's fun to look back before we move forward.

no reason to mention my peculiarities, my wandering in the maze these many years, shut away from sight. and from love, too.

Sometimes, when you catch someone unaware at just the right time and in just the right light, you can catch sight of what they will be.

I still feel the same way about God's Word as I did when I was 15 and lost my sight.

My parents ... are more like cats. They accidentally had a litter of kittens, and then emotionally moved on to whatever ball of yarn rolled past their line of sight.

The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.

Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.

We will not really address our foreign policy and these endless wars that show no end in sight and seem to be getting deeper and broader and more catastrophic with each passing day.

Nothing makes a pitcher feel more secure than the sight of his teammates circling the bases during a ball game.

There is a sight all hearts beguiling-- A youthful mother to her infant smiling, Who with spread arms and dancing feet, A cooing voice, returns its answer sweet.

You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.

I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight.

Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.

If we are to go only halfway or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty... it would be better to not go at all.

I dimly guess, from blessings known, of greater out of sight.

More than anything else we should be concerned about meekness, or our standing in God's sight. If that standing is as it should be, nothing else matters. If it is not, nothing else counts.

Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably

...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.

It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness: cut out the support, and beauty will sink from sight.

When you gaze upon the lovely sight. Of twins, arm in arm, asleep at night. Think not that the house has been doubly messed. But that you, as parents, have been doubly blessed.

I love paying tax so much, the sight of a gritter lorry gives me an erection.

I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.

He was transfixed at the sight of the lords and ladies of his realm running about like demented chickens.

You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.

Repentance is a thing that cannot be trifled with every day. Daily transgression and daily repentance is not that which is pleasing in the sight of God.

A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.

I buy everything in sight. It took my last ounce of control not to buy one of these in every color.

God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.

The sight of a certain depressed-to-the-max head of seaweed has made me quite ill.

This nation loves singing and loves acting.

Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful.

If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?

Was she telling you to stay away from me?" I asked. He paused, then said, "Yeah." He squeezed my hand out of Aunt Lauren's sight. "It's okay. We're good." Chloe and Derek

We look to the left and to the right And we need help but nobody's in sight Where is the man that we all need Tell him he's to come and rescue me.

The sight of one man standing up to challenge God and country is something that Madison, Jefferson and Franklin would cheer, and every American can celebrate.

I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright, but is defined by one's actions.