Quotes About Farsighted

#1. Maybe I'm just farsighted. The further away something is, the better I can see it but once it gets close, I lose sight of it.

Ai Yazawa

#2. If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

Lemony Snicket

#3. His chin looked as though a farsighted person had attempted to sew two thickly cut pieces of bacon together in a dark room.

Christopher Paul Curtis

#4. The political controversy surrounding this Boston's Big Dig could have the effect of throwing cold water on any plans for farsighted infrastructure development around the country.

Andrew Natsios

#5. And most of the times, the rebellions were not led by farsighted men who thought they would create a better way of life for the common man. They were led by men discontented with their lot in life.

Amish Tripathi

#6. Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time.

Max Planck

#7. Some people are near- or farsighted - I'm thorn-sighted. The thorns on the rose are in really sharp definition for me, the rose petals a little fuzzier.

Danny Meyer

#8. You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order alone.

Henry A. Kissinger

#9. The silken rush of woodland waters and the scoured shapes of the desert - these and countless other treasures we owe to those farsighted enough to have preserved the public lands that make up our inheritance.

T. H. Watkins

#10. Communists should be the most farsighted, the most self-sacrificing, the most resolute, and the least prejudiced in sizing up situations, and should rely on the majority of the masses and win their support.

Mao Zedong

#11. We are all farsighted, we give importance to those things that are far from us, while neglecting the things that are close to us ... only to realize their value later when they are out-of-reach again ...

Ai Yazawa

#12. Ultimately, I think the United States is a pretty awesome country but it very plausibly would have been even awesomer had English and American political leaders in the late 18th century been farsighted enough to find compromises that would have held the empire together.

Matthew Yglesias

#13. In the farsighted words of Thomas Jefferson, writing to his predecessor, John Adams, 'The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

Richard Dawkins

#14. I would love to buy a piece of land in the Moon, just to feel very farsighted, extremely optimistic and absolutely crazy!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. The integration of Europe was very much led by a Germany that was always willing to pay a little bit extra to reach a compromise that everybody accepted, because Germany was so eager to get European support for reunification. That was called the "farsighted vision," which created the European Union.

George Soros

#16. As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

Darren Aronofsky

#17. Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you've got is the dough.

Louis De Bernieres

#18. Tracy's words had pierced through her daughter's skin like a sharp razor blade with scars that would remain with her for years to come.

Valenciya Lyons

#19. I tried to fight the panic and force it back down to where it had come from.

Sue Whitaker

#20. Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a sourer note.

Stephen Merchant

#21. In a sense, when we started Virgin Atlantic, I was trying to create an airline for myself. If you try to build the perfect airline for yourself, it will be appreciated by others.

Richard Branson

#22. Her eyes burrow into my forehead like greedy grubs that want to feed off my private thoughts.

Emlyn Chand

#23. I don't have much desire to move to LA much yet. I don't think you can expect it any time soon, but who knows what can happen in the future.

Taron Egerton

#24. Sometimes, it doesn't take another person to mend a broken heart, it takes acceptance that things don't always go the way they were planned and just move on with life.
- Mend Her Broken Heart

Shaniah Blue

#25. Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

Jay Samit

#26. It could kill you, Maura said.
Then there was the awkward moment that arrives when two thirds of the people in the room know that the other third is supposed to die in fewer than nine months, and the person who is meant to die is not one of the ones in the know.

Maggie Stiefvater

#27. Frankly, with HBO and Showtime and cable shows, the DVD box sets and all, you can have a product that doesn't make you feel like as soon as it's projected, it's thrown away. It's really a piece of art.

Louis Leterrier

#28. Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.

Julia Roberts

#29. Two types of prophecies exist. Those that will happen no matter what, and those that can be prevented. We can't know which is which.

Emlyn Chand