Quotes About Nearsightedness

#1. Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness.

Henry Ford

#2. Blau suffered from a mild form of messianism, an ailment as common among Jewish males as nearsightedness. (p. 264)

Rebecca Goldstein

#3. He has many things I haven't got," said Jace. "Like nearsightedness, bad posture, and an appalling lack of coordination."
-Jace about Simon, pg. 331-

Cassandra Clare

#4. Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

Daniel H. Pink

#5. The Lord probably didn't appreciate her feigning nearsightedness in order to repeatedly lean into her husband when she should've been concentrating on the meaning behind the hymn she was singing.

Karen Witemeyer

#6. Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.

Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

#7. Idealism may get us into the fray, but it is the loss of all we cherish that begins to form in us a heart capable of leading others reluctantly and humbly.

Dan B. Allender

#8. It was madness. And, as Finan had said, sometimes madness works.

Bernard Cornwell

#9. I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.

Giacomo Casanova

#10. The path of light is self awaken.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. If you draw, if you dance, if you like poetry, if you like spoken word, whatever, if you like polka dots - use who you are, who you really are, as a positive. That's your superpower. Wendy

Darryl McDaniels

#12. I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.

Molly Ivins

#13. I've never met a strong person with an easy past.

Anonymous

#14. Claiming to love self, but willingly default to cheating at the first sign of trouble is nothing short of playing yourself. Your ego may feel avenged - temporarily - but your heart and soul, the true self, will suffer the long term affects of karma's justifiable sting.

T.F. Hodge

#15. If someone doesn't live with you, neither should their stuff.

Monika Kristofferson

#16. Love me...with all the abandon
of a sudden wild rain.

Sanober Khan

#17. What's at the core of your desire to run a marathon? Couple this journey with value beyond miles. The meaning you ascribe to your effort crystalizes your motivation and fuels your commitment to stay the course and go the distance.

Gina Greenlee

#18. But my very latest discovery made me feel better. I had found that every rooster has his own Spain and he has it under his feathers.

Nikolai Gogol

#19. For me, the essence of being a professional soldier was in being operational. It was the core of a soldier's identity and eligibility.

Thomas Rathsack