Top 100 Quotes About First Sight
#1. You have got to be good in that town if you want to beat the crowd.' So says young John on his first sight of New York City. THE CROWD (1928)
Steven Jay Schneider
#2. I wanted to do London Boulevard because I saw the potential of a story about two people who need each other desperately, who love at first sight, as one does, and above all a story in which no one is what they appear to be.
William Monahan
#3. Apparently there was such a thing as love at first sight; or love at first spit, anyway.
Kristin Cashore
#4. Can a person hold tightly to two thoughts that look, at first sight, as if they'd cancel each other out?
Jodi Picoult
#5. Given is the word. Given publicly, on the first Good Friday, on a hill, in the sight of all, was the visible demonstration of the only permanent way to overcome evil. Human nature demands something more enduring than the unquiet equilibrium of rival powers.
Muriel Lester
#6. no
it won't
be love at
first sight when
we meet it'll be love
at first remembrance cause
i've seen you in my mother's eyes
when she tells me to marry the type
of man i'd want to raise my son to be like
Rupi Kaur
#7. Love at first sight'some say misnaming
Discovery of twinned helplessness
Against the huge tug of procreation.
But friendship at first sight? This also
Catches fiercely at the surprised heart
So that the cheek blanches then blushes.
Robert Graves
#8. I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.
Chris Lowe
#9. The two of them just sort of clicked, like old friends who'd just met. Friends-at-first-sight, if there was such a thing.
Michael J. Sullivan
#10. I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.
Keanu Reeves
#11. An obstreperous urge seized him. he desperately wanted to hold on to her, to support his slipping heart, and when it slipped away, he realized she had gone away, incarcerating herself in his thought with her smile and unblemished innocence.
Faraaz Kazi
#12. The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
Booker T. Washington
#13. I think pretty much all people who love each other had some kind of thing at first sight. I mean, there has to be some kind of moment where you, like, feel a different energy around someone.
Robert Pattinson
#14. The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.
Remy De Gourmont
#15. Even the not saying can balloon into something bigger than words themselves.
Jennifer E. Smith
#16. Take control from the moment you step in her place. She'll be pleasantly surprised and impressed.
Auliq Ice
#17. You'll always be my girl. You were from the first moment I saw you. You were sitting in church with your brothers. You were eight years old, and I was twelve, and I thought, I hope she waits for me. Lucia, I'll wait forever if I have to.
Adriana Trigiani
#18. I think I must be one of those who are born to be in luck, for one does not often meet with people whom one feels he can love from the first sight of their faces
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#19. There are a lot of things in the world that are unexplainable - love at first sight, vegetable pizza, and potpourri, for instance. But I doubt your ex's murder is one of them.
Stephanie Bond
#20. A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.
Charles James
#21. Since love first made the breast an instrument
Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart
Was molten to a mirror, like a rose
I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang
This mirror in your sight
Gaze you therein
Muhammad Iqbal
#22. Nancy fell in love with Viola at first sight of her. A coup de foudre, she said, more intense and overwhelming than any form of romantic love. Mother and daughter were each a world to the other, complete and unassailable.
Kate Atkinson
#23. The American fantasy of love is the 'meet-cute,' 'Love at first sight,' and 'You had me at hello!' The completely spontaneous version of accidental love, which doesn't care about demographics and social compatibility.
Susan Straight
#24. She read the letter again and tried to imagine what it would feel like to be so desperate for a response that you would drop all sense of dignity and propriety and dash from the house at the first sight of the postman.
Charlie Lovett
#25. It's only at first sight,when the mind's a blank slate,that you get the purest look.
So I fold the flap back,and write:
Tumbleweeds.
Alyson Noel
#26. That's the first sign you know you're a Libertarian. You see the red light. You stop. You realize that there's not a car in sight. And you put your foot on the gas.
Gary Johnson
#27. A sign is always less than the thing it points to, and a symbol is always more than we can understand at first sight. Therefore we stop at the sign but go on to the goal it indicates; but we remain with the symbol because it promises more than it reveals.
Carl Jung
#28. It wasn't exactly love at first sight, but it was deeper than that. A sense of belonging to a place I never knew I wanted but somehow always needed. It was a home that carried a heartbeat.
Nikki Rowe
#29. It looked, at first sight, like a portable windmill that had been attacked by an enormous insect, and at second sight like a touring torture chamber for an Inquisition that wanted to get out and about a bit and enjoy the fresh air.
Terry Pratchett
#30. I do believe in love at first sight. I'm experiencing it everyday.
Zayn Malik
#31. He said, I always thought the woman I'd marry would hit me easy, in a bolt of lightning, and there is not lightning there is not even thunder there is not even rain.
Aimee Bender
#33. Despite the fact that he thought her quite interesting at their first meeting, John Robinson could not be said to be infatuated with Mirusia Jansen at first sight.
Monika Barbara Potocki
#34. Love is better than any weapon; all you have to do is keep it burning in the heart of the victim. He will do whatever you ask him to do.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#35. When I first met him, he was everything I wanted to be, but over time, he showed me how I wanted to be myself, and that was how I fell in love with him.
Shannon A. Thompson
#36. My knowledge of trains - and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight - comes from Alfred Hitchcock.
Darin Strauss
#37. On the whole, the life of a chess professional is not as easy as it appears at first sight. One needs to devote some ten hours a day to chess and to everything connected with it - physical and psycholgical preparation.
Vladimir Kramnik
#38. Sometimes, when we least expect it, we catch a glimpse of someone, a face, perhaps only a smile, and our heart latches on and will not let go. It may not be love at first, but soon and for always.
Regan Walker
#39. You are a bird of ill-omen, thought Kelso. You circle the world and wherever you land there is famine and death and destruction: in an earlier and less credulous age, the local citizens would have gathered at the first sight of you and driven you off with stones -
Robert Harris
#40. The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.
Twyla Tharp
#41. That's what came from having romance in your soul. You believe in things like love at first sight and perfect presents.
Dorothy Koomson
#42. Prayer's value is not that it makes challenges go away,
but that it changes my perception and experience within them.
~ Life at First Sight: Finding the Divine in the Details
Phyllis Edgerly Ring
#43. From her he had learned two fundamental things about love: first, that unlike what the romantics so pompously argued, love was more a gradual course than a sudden blossoming at first sight, and second, that he was capable of loving.
Elif Shafak
#44. You'll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#45. Inside every TV star is a movie star screaming to get out, and Donna Frenzel, with whom I'm guessing you're not instantly familiar, made George Clooney a movie star once and for all in the first ten minutes of his fifth feature, 1998's 'Out of Sight.'
Steve Erickson
#46. I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.
Nelson Mandela
#48. Suddenly, he had to ask himself, was love at first sight actually possible
Bella Andre
#49. It's amazing how you could be with someone for years and yet not love them in the same intensity as; you do love someone else, the very moment you meet them.
Hafsa Shah
#50. The first one, his first sight of a dead body. That had changed everything. A fall from innocence, and the start of a lifelong fascination with violent crime.
Christopher Fowler
#51. Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love.
John Muir
#52. She touched something deep in his soul. He didn't believe in love at first sight, but the thought of hurting her made his chest ache.
Jodie B. Cooper
#54. I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography. It's the metaphor for the notion of first sight. What one saw first.
Robert Polidori
#55. When you love another deeply, you gain strength. When you receive anothers deep love, you gain courage
Marina DeAngelo 2012 .
#56. One of the worst features of all the plans for sharing wealth and equalizing or guaranteeing incomes is that they lose sight of the conditions and institution s that are necessary to create wealth and income in the first place.
Henry Hazlitt
#57. And the more he gazed at her, the more he felt a twinge of something he couldn't quite describe, an unknown surge that bubbled inside him from the first moment he'd caught sight of her, and it wouldn't release him.
J.L. Sheppard
#58. For the first time in a long time I've met a man that makes my heart want to stay.
Nikki Rowe
#59. The air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.
Laini Taylor
#60. I certainly don't believe in love at first sight. I definitely believe in a lot of chemistry and lust at first sight. I think that love is something that takes work.
Amanda Peet
#61. Quantity impresses, and anyone can appreciate it at first sight. Quality isn't as obvious, or as easy to appreciate. As if that weren't enough, quantity is easier to produce, less labor-intensive, cheaper, less risky than saying: Not this.
Gabriel Zaid
#63. The first six months are what I call the La La Land phase. This is what a lot of romantic novels, songs, and movies are based upon. Enjoy the courtship, nights out, and fun. You will eventually come back to reality.
Pamela Cummins
#64. The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.
Mary Cassatt
#65. What am I?" he asked. "I am Edmund Herondale, and, my lady, I am always and forever at your service. If you will have me." He smiled, and the smile was slow and devastating. In the dark narrow street long past midnight, his eyes were high summer.
Cassandra Clare
#66. Truth (according to Edward Willing): People who rely on first sight are either lazy or deluded.
Melissa Jensen
#68. at first sight everyone seems like human.
Arzum Uzun
#69. The first sight I beheld when I first awakened was a pair of eyes filled with pure adoration and a joyful grin that shone more brightly than the afternoon sun. Though he hadn't spoken a single word, I knew exactly who he was. He was my creator ... my Lord ... my God.
Kristen Reed
#70. At first we cannot see beyond the path that leads downward to dark and hateful things but no light or beauty will ever come from the man who cannot bear this sight. Light is always born of darkness, and the sun never yet stood still in heaven to satisfy man's longing or to still his fears.
C. G. Jung
#71. Under the deluge of minute-to-minute text conversations, emails, relentless exchange of media channels and passwords and apps and reminders and tweets and tags, we lose sight of what all this fuss is supposed to be about in the first place: ourselves.
Ariel Garten
#72. I also know how ruthless and reckless young women can be when their ovaries overheat. My darling little Tehuti's Gonads had caught fire at the first sight of him. I could think of no feasible way to quench the flames.
Wilbur Smith
#73. Then he walked in, the Great Mystery Man, now known as Cabe "Hawk" Delgado.
I'd fallen in love with him at first sight. No joke. He was hot but it wasn't lust. It was love.
Okay, it was part lust but it was mostly love.
Kristen Ashley
#74. Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#75. What are you doing a study on right now?"
"A study on the statistical probablity of love at first sight.
Jennifer E. Smith
#76. Each composer has their own language, and I try to meet the challenges, even if at first sight, they appear impossible.
Michala Petri
#77. Why did New York feel more like home to me than home did? I'd heard of love at first sight, but I didn't know it could happen with a whole city.
Lisa Mangum
#78. Lane, I will become attached to you. It happens with everyone. Something about my personality makes me latch on to people. First, it was my friend Tina, then Liam, and now you. I'm sorry, but I know it will happen. It already is happening. Now that we've had sex, I don't want you out of my sight.
K. Webster
#79. Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
Barbara Hershey
#80. I don't believe in love at first sight, neither do you. But I know ... that sometimes it only takes a few minutes to recognize that a person is capable of breaking your heart.
Kamila Shamsie
#81. I just don't believe in love at first sight any more, even though I've based my whole career on the concept.
Hugh Grant
#82. I suppose that few people ever forget the first sight of a palm-tree of any species. I vividly remember seeing one for the first time at Malaga, but the coco-palm groves of the Pacific have a strangeness and witchery of their own.
Isabella Bird
#83. I am still half a world from Westeros, Dany reminded herself, but every hour brings me closer. She tried to imagine what it would feel like, when she first caught sight of the land she was born to rule. It will be as fair a shore as I have ever seen, I know it. How could it be otherwise?
George R R Martin
#84. Do you believe in love before first sight , L?
Do you believe in love after last sight, Ethan?
After death-that's what she meant.
It wasn't fair.
Kami Garcia
#85. He was certainly an intensely egotistical and unfeeling man, but the sight of his victim, his first victim, bloody and pitiful at his feet, may have released some long pent fountain of remorse which for a time may have flooded whatever scheme of action he had contrived.
H.G.Wells
#86. Young men, romantics, call it love at first sight, but even then I understood it was only prettiness. Young men see pretty, and they start hanging all the things they hope you'll be onto you till you're so weighed down you can't move.
Joshilyn Jackson
#87. First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples, look like her mouth, I thought I had turned into a man
Alice Walker
#88. Did you?' the producer said. 'He's so clownish on the surface, all joke and dazzle. How in the world could you have seen it?'
'But I did. The moment I met him," she said. "A fucking supernova. Every day since.' She thought, but did not say, almost.
Lauren Groff
#89. You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your eyes in because I was loving the hoof marks on your cheeks.
Toni Morrison
#90. What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?
Mary C. Ames
#91. If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#92. Visions flashed through her mind. A fluttering of white wings. A burning arrow. Stained glass under her feet.
Tiffany Reisz
#93. Love at first sight is a revival of an infantile impression. The first love object reappears in a different disguise.
Wilhelm Stekel
#94. It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
A. E. Waite
#95. I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors.
There is so much aspiration in them,
so much audacious hope and trembling fear,
so much of the heart's history, that all errors
and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of
in the amiable self assertion of youth.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#96. I remember the first time I met my wife, Elisa. As a favor to a friend, I had gone to her home to pick up her sister, Frances. Elisa opened the door, and at least for me, it was love at first sight.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#97. I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical scheme, even if the scheme does not appear at first sight to be connected with physics. One should concentrate on getting interesting mathematics.
Paul Dirac
#98. For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own.
Paul Engle
#99. I may be too cynical to believe in love at first sight, Montgomery, but I believe in the click that happens between two people.
K. Bromberg
