Top 100 Quotes About Not Seeing
#1. Better we see them seeing us, because then we can all see together, but when not seeing them seeing us we might not see them seeing us doing what we are doing. MI5 agent Iona von Ustinov (father of actor Peter Ustinov) to MI6 agent Desmond Bristow about the PDVE (Portuguese Secret Police) in 1944.
Desmond Bristow
#2. I'm not seeing tough questions asked on American television. I'm not seeing those correspondents that would question those in power. It's like a club. We are not asking the tough questions.
Jorge Ramos
#3. Maybe I'm seeing myself in a different way than the people in the audience see me, 'cause to me, I think I look like a ballerina and I feel like a ballerina. But maybe I'm not seeing what other people are seeing.
Misty Copeland
#4. Not playing by the rules, not seeing things conventionally, that's the heart of who he [ Steve Jobs] is, and he does it in small ways of everyday rebellion just almost to assert who he is, like not putting a license plate on his car.
Walter Isaacson
#5. When horror turns into gore, when you show the monster, the killings, and the blood, it loses its suggestive powers. It loses part of what makes a horror film a horror film, which is that the images you see develop in your brain and you become the one imagining what you are not seeing on screen.
Raul Garcia
#6. They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed ... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all.
Peter Shaffer
#7. The urge for retribution, therefore, seems to depend upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior. Despite
Sam Harris
#8. They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game
R.D. Laing
#9. An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds to conquer, but new worlds to respect.
Mary Catherine Bateson
#10. Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#11. I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we're closer when in fact we're not seeing each other, we're not connecting.
Jason Reitman
#12. My words lied.My eyes and my arm shouted out the truth,but you were not seeing.
George R R Martin
#13. It turns out we're very good at not seeing things
Jack Hitt
#14. Music used to cause revolutions and I'm not seeing much revolution anymore.
Chuck D
#15. Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being "pushed to an extreme", not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case.
John Stuart Mill
#16. Subjective terms, you are consciousness itself - you are not the next, evanescent image or string of words that appears in your mind. Not seeing it arise, however, the next thought will seem to become what you are.
Sam Harris
#17. Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.
Douglas Horton
#18. Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels
the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.
Azar Nafisi
#19. Certain though I am - and ever more certain - that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#20. The thought of not seeing your eyes when I wake up, or not hearing your heart next to me while you are asleep made me sick. With all of that, I decided no, I can't go another day without you. I don't want to go another day without you
Gail McHugh
#21. She was definitely more covered-up than the courtesans around him. But sometimes there was more allure in not seeing everything.
Sarah J. Maas
#22. A movie is a diamond and suddenly someone is seeing this facet or that facet. No matter how good you think you are, there's stuff you're not seeing.
Fred Schepisi
#23. No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.
Blaise Pascal
#24. I don't know how to feel about those deaths. Guilty, maybe, for not seeing the pain myself. Sad, that some people can't find another way to escape.
Veronica Roth
#25. After not seeing him for months, his perfection was almost too much to take in all at once, like I'd go blind if I didn't absorb him in segments.
S.C. Stephens
#26. I particularly like Facebook because it straddles the gap between seeing people and not seeing them.
Chris Benz
#27. There's a look people get in their eyes when you're talking to them and they're not seeing you, and you know it's because they have a movie running through their head.
Kim Cattrall
#28. I'm sorry," I said. I felt unbearably ashamed. "I'm sorry." "What for?" "For being a blind, self-satisfied ass. For not seeing . . .
Sergei Lukyanenko
#29. We then spend our lives not seeing what we saw. The picture is there: what we know when we're small; when we are small, we know everything in a childlike way.
Helene Cixous
#30. I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I ...
David Foster Wallace
#31. To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
Bodhidharma
#32. Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real
Jodi Picoult
#33. Passionate worship always leads to personal witness. Always. And what that means is ... if we're not witnessing, there's a problem with our worship. We're not seeing God for who He is! We're not realizing what He's done! We're not realizing the magnitude of what He's done for our souls!
David Platt
#34. There's great release, really, in not seeing into the future.
Gangaji
#35. There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was actually invisible. It was that people had become used to not seeing him.
And if no one sees you, are you really there at all?
Patrick Ness
#36. I'm not seeing a strong father-son relationship here, Alex. You two make Anakin and Luke look like Andy and Opie.
Rachel Vincent
#39. When we look at other people comparatively and competitively, we're not seeing them as our brothers and sisters. We're not loving them more than we love ourselves, and we we're definitely not seeing them as God sees them.
Craig Groeschel
#40. It's hard to hold a conversation with people when you're not seeing them.
Dale Ludwig
#41. I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, 'the press.'
Marianne Faithfull
#42. Once you change the way you see the world, you can never go back to not seeing it that way.
Leila Summers
#43. After a few hours of not seeing any sign of them, he relaxed into the drudgery of walking, walking and then more walking.
James Dashner
#44. If you're not seeing God at the climax, it's not worth doing. Sex is the bridge that connects heaven and earth.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#45. There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.
Errol Morris
#46. Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.
Etel Adnan
#47. Unless Robbie and Chris wanted to her to be a surrogate mother, this would be her first and last pregnancy. She and morning sickness were not seeing eye-to-eye.
Koko Brown
#48. I relied on what I wrote to build a bridge which could not be cut down. It was my own self in which I trusted, not seeing self as that last cell from which escape can only come too late.
Anna Kavan
#49. I've missed you, Liss. It hurts not seeing you for all those years, but this? You being right here and me not being able to have you? Hurts so much more.
Leisa Rayven
#50. I don't blame anyone for my failures i blame myself for not seeing what's really ahead of me ...
Dj-trippin
#51. I glance into the faces of all these people out for a Sunday stroll, but I'm not seeing eyes and noses and mouths. I'm seeing stories. Every person has a story. All the hopes and dreams. And fears. And secrets.
In every face.
Andrew Clements
#52. Always seeing a child as the innocent left you open to not seeing when the child was scheming to take you down. It
Mercedes Lackey
#53. My answer to someone who is in contrast with me - by not seeing God in the scientific data - is that you don't see God in the scientific data because you're not me. I have other experiences than you have, that bring me to look at this data as enriching my experience of God.
George Coyne
#54. Mortals have perfected the art of not seeing what they don't expect to be there.
Julie Kagawa
#55. It's a challenge, for sure. My family is not seeing me at all, for probably the next six months, and they haven't seen me for the last year. I'm really blessed with a lot of great partners, including my writing staff. Being able to rely on the people around me has really helped out.
Veena Sud
#56. When you're older you will know that at some unconscious level not only did you see it coming, but you created it, in your own blind, stumbling way. You will console yourself with the fact that it wouldn't have mattered, seeing it or not seeing it. You were a sponge for incident.
Stephanie Danler
#57. Not seeing people permits one to attribute to them all possible perfections.
Victor Hugo
#58. Not seeing the divine glory of Christ in the gospel is blameworthy. It is not an innocent blindness, but a culpable love of darkness. "They
John Piper
#59. I love furniture. And I thought, why are we not seeing who's making the cool new coffee table and these new designs that come out?
Ellen DeGeneres
#60. Look around and you will see what others are not seeing
Sunday Adelaja
#61. Not seeing a tsunami or an economic event coming is excusable; building something fragile to them is not.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#62. Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
Bill Cosby
#63. I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.
Leighton Meester
#64. I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.
Emily Bronte
#65. There's nothing more romantic after not seeing your husband for four months than to have our first night back together, on a Broadway stage, with 12 million people watching.
Deborra-Lee Furness
#66. I was having a lot of mixed feelings about the independent world as well as the label world. I feel like I've been in the game a long time, and you know, when it come to labels not seeing a fella being around the last five years, it's like, it's hard to convince them what I can do.
Raekwon
#67. Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.
Langdon Brown Gilkey
#68. When you're hearing somebody and you're not seeing them, your brain naturally creates a version of them. Then you feel closer to them because you've created them.
Alex Blumberg
#69. How many times in your life has anything you forced to happen worked out for you? Have we failed? Has the universe failed us? The universe cannot fail us. We fail ourselves by not seeing the bigger picture.
Ruben Papian
#70. As Albert Einstein once said to me: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity." But what is much more widespread than the actual stupidity is the playing stupid, turning off your ear, not listening, not seeing ... playing helpless.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#71. People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie. Before you make a statement about someone, get all the information and see everything before you make a judgment.
Amanda Bynes
#72. True self confidence happens when you stop blaming others for not seeing what you love about yourself. Not everyone has the same list of needs.
Shannon L. Alder
#73. Everyone says she's mad.'
'How do they know?' I asked.
'Because she's different from other people, I suppose.'
'Is that being mad?'
'No. Not really, I suppose madness is not seeing things as others see them.
Ruskin Bond
#74. The older you get, the easier it is for you to distinguish between your friends and people you are not seeing for the first time.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#75. Everything that you see before you with your physical eyes is an illusion. In other words, you are not seeing correctly. Life is made up of light. But if you are only looking through the senses, it seems solid and physical.
Frederick Lenz
#76. Perhaps they saw what their minds were instructed to see, because the human brain is not equipped to see War, Famine, Pollution, and Death when they don't want to be seen, and has got so good at not seeing that it often manages not to see them even when they abound on every side.
Terry Pratchett
#77. As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem.
Walter E. Williams
#78. The root difficulty in all cases was the state of being blind and deaf to words
not seeing the words for the prose. Being adults, they had forgotten what every child understands, which is giving and taking a meaning is not automatic and inevitable
Jacques Barzun
#79. If I was whisked away ... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture to have it cut off.
Arthur Boyd
#80. How can I believe you?"
"You can't," says Pigpen. "But I'm not seeing your other options.
Katie McGarry
#81. What are you afraid of then?
Not Being able to see, I think not seeing because your obsessed by something that blots out the world.
Eva Ibbotson
#82. I see', said Smee, still not seeing.
Dave Barry
#83. If you just think exclusively about what would be the best tasting or the most profitable, you're just not seeing the big picture.
Dan Barber
#84. The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are necessary for their existence. It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty.
Stephen Hawking
#85. I was scared of these men, scared of things going badly, scared of not seeing Felicia again, but I wasn't scared to be breaking the law.
Jake Hinkson
#86. Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.
Victor Hugo
#87. I think it is more like a ghost that has been following us both. Something vague that we're not seeing, something more like a feeling.
Conor Oberst
#88. Initial feedback we got from people was that Poker could and should be a product in its own right. For us, that was definitely a case of us not seeing the forest for the trees since we are Poker nuts.
Tim Page
#89. So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.
Leo Tolstoy
#90. Precious is sleep, better to be of stone,
while the oppression and the shame still last;
not seeing and not hearing, I am blest;
so do not wake me, hush! keep your voice down.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
#91. I've always wanted to be in comedy ... growing up with Asian parents and not seeing yourself represented in media - it was always just a daydream.
Anna Akana
#92. When you see only problems, you're not seeing clearly.
Phil Knight
#93. We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.
Amy Tan
#94. This is still a lot of blocking and tackling. I'm not seeing the kind of vision thing associated with a frothy market.
Jermichael Finley
#95. The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.
Svetlana Alliluyeva
#96. She did not belong to Will-she was too much herself to belong to anyone, even Jem-but she belonged with them, and silently he cursed the Consul for not seeing it.
Cassandra Clare
#97. What I like best about this is not seeing you naked, love," Marcus said. He began to massage the bar of soap in the washcloth, creating a rich lather. "Though you are quite beautiful. What I like is knowing Josh is kneeling here beside you and cannot see you.
Joey W. Hill
#98. Producers don't like the director who ignores their opinion - but I always try not to be the nicest person when making a movie. It's easy to do that. Just say 'Yes sir', Alright', 'Okay' - but they're not seeing the movie because if they can, they should be directing the movie.
Ryuhei Kitamura
#99. I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Private Benjamin,' got turned down by every studio until the very last one, but I just kept thinking, 'Why are you people not seeing that this is a hit movie? What is wrong with you?'
Nancy Meyers
#100. When these images clash - as in The Fascist octupus has sung its swan song, the jackboot is thrown into the melting pot - it can be taken as certain that the writer is not seeing a mental image of the objects he is naming; in other words he is not really thinking.
George Orwell
