Quotes About Seeing

#1. Obinze imagined him, dutiful and determined, visiting the places he was supposed to visit, thinking, as he did so, not of the things he was seeing but of the photos he would take of them and of the people who would see those photos.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#2. Do we approach God from a beggar's perspective or as His cherished child? If we have any difficulty seeing Him as our loving Father, we need to ask Him to help us develop a healthy Father/child relationship.

David Jeremiah

#3. That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone having a good fucking laugh.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. 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

#5. My parents split up when I was five, and that changed my life as well. I wasn't used to seeing them away from each other. I had to get used to seeing my dad without my mom. Those things affected the music that I make.

Joey Badass

#6. I was seeing people that were older who didn't create any kind of foundation in their lives, and it scared me to death.

Edie Brickell

#7. What bothers me is our culture's obsession with nudity. It shouldn't be a big deal, but it is. I think this overemphasis with nudity makes actors nervous. There's the worry about seeing one's body dissected, misrepresented, played and replayed on the Internet.

Rachel McAdams

#8. He sat staring before him, seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers, inexhaustable and prolific to the end of time.

Edith Pargeter

#9. Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, than neither can seeing.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#10. Women are foils to men in South Korea. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance. Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.

Kim Hyesoon

#11. 'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old - obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.

Aaron Johnson

#12. Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don't matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends.

Brene Brown

#13. There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing.

Neale Donald Walsch

#14. We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things.

Jonathan Shapiro

#16. 'Dark Circles' is a great relationship/character piece and also a horror film. It tinkered with the genre, which I loved. I was sick of seeing the same thing, sick of people just trying to get a movie made.

Johnathon Schaech

#17. It's kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.

Ron Livingston

#18. Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

John Calvin

#19. Life, Rose well knew, could throw some hard punches at you, but nothing hurt as much as losing a child, or seeing one of your children hurt and suffering. Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could. Not good or bad fortune. Not friendships. Not even a man or a woman.

Jennifer Donnelly

#20. The archaeology of grief is not ordered. It is more like earth under a spade, turning up things you had forgotten. Surprising things come to light: not simply memories, but states of mind, emotions, older ways of seeing the world.

Helen Macdonald

#21. I'm very uncomfortable with my body, and I'm not interested in people seeing it on screen.

Alicia Silverstone

#22. It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.

Joe Cocker

#23. I like seeing Venice through your eyes.'
A tiny bud of hope sprouted in her heart ...
'I'll have this wrapped for you.'
'Thanks.' The tiny bud within her grew a single whisper-thin leaf of vivid green

Nalini Singh

#24. We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#25. The exciting thing about seeing a new show is that you are taken on a journey of surprises, if you know what's coming it takes away the fun.

Kerry Ellis

#26. I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.

Sandra Oh

#27. 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

#28. Only your limited vision stops you seeing success ... open your mind and you open your vision.

Stephen Richards

#29. There's always competition, especially in the EDM scene, but that keeps me motivated and focused. Everybody is really friendly though. I always enjoy seeing other guys at gigs or festivals. So yeah, there is competition but there are also lots of good vibes.

Martin Garrix

#30. We are seeing a changed Mumbai, but having showcased Dharavi in 'Slum Dog Millionaire' brought shame and disgrace to our city. Whenever the firangs visit Mumbai, they must visit Dharavi; it has become a sightseeing spot. However, I feel saddened about it.

Rohit Shetty

#31. Mary seemed to have taken a perverse pleasure in seeing how best she could alternate undercooking and overcooking.

Agatha Christie

#32. Know your value. Confidence breeds success. Act like the person you want to become, and people will start seeing you as that person.

Mark M. Ford

#33. I didn't know that I'd like it this much, coaching both boys and coming out all the time and seeing how excited they are to play hockey. It reminds you of when you were that age and you wanted to be out on the ice.

Joe Sakic

#34. In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is preciously what they cannot depict. That's why they substitute the joy of seeing for the joy of life.

Orhan Pamuk

#35. For now, he and Meg were going to have the adventure of seeing a new place and having a new experience. Together.
He wasn't human. Would never be human. And Meg didn't expect him to be. But feeling her hand in his, Simon thought maybe he could learn to be human enough.

Anne Bishop

#36. Those are all computational engines that are highly distributed and therefore highly robust, .. We're seeing a very significant evolution in the way we even think about computer systems, let alone specific applications.

Vinton Cerf

#37. I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.

Sally Mann

#38. We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.

Samuel Johnson

#39. If I'm in N.Y.C., I love walking around during the summer. It's hot, but I love it. I enjoy seeing everyone out. New York is such a fun place. The energy is so amazing here during the summer.

Behati Prinsloo

#40. To know that He has risen, and to have fellowship with Him as such - communing with the risen Saviour by possessing a risen life - seeing Him leave the tomb by leaving the tomb of worldliness ourselves, this is even still more precious.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#41. It is by seeing, looking and choosing to not turn away that we gain God's heart, that we grow in faith.

Rich Nathan

#42. [Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart aleck
'
[Opal] 'Was?'
[J] 'Be quiet. I'm telling a story here.

Maria V. Snyder

#43. We must stop seeing our anointed men and women of God as Seers, magic workers, Herbalist and native doctors.

Sunday Adelaja

#44. I'm sorry, Silvan. I didn't mean to wake you."
"I wouldn't have missed seeing my son getting barricaded in the privy by a wee lass for anything. Bonny fortune with your plan, m'dear.

Karen Marie Moning

#45. That night, I thanked God for seeing me through that day of days and prayed I would make it through D plus 1. I also promised that if some way I could get home again, I would find a nice peaceful town and spend the rest of my life in peace.

Richard Winters

#46. Besides, captain, have you no interest in seeing Lord Henarald's expression when he learns that my master seeks to commission a sword?' Galar Baras's head snapped round in shock.

Steven Erikson

#47. Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.

Charles Caleb Colton

#48. I hate seeing you hurt. I'm sorry for hurting you last night. The look on your face speared my icy heart. I wish I could take it all back.

Fisher Amelie

#49. When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing ... And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know ...

Gaston Bachelard

#50. We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.

Minor White

#51. Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

Fanny Burney

#52. Experiences, much more than instruction, are a seeing with the inner eye - finding a channel to our essential inner life, a door to our deepest understanding wherein we have the capacity for universal response.

Lawren Harris

#53. People love seeing violence and horrible things. The human being is bad and can't stand more than five minutes of happiness. Put him in a dark theater and ask him to look at two hours of happiness, and he'd walk out or fall asleep.

Paul Verhoeven

#54. Love & care for one another, gratitude & compassion are the ultimate state of being. This is living on the super-conscious level of life, seeing the soul of one another.

Alice Hocker

#55. When I'm with you, it's like I've been seeing black-and-white and you're the only spot of color; like I'm drowning and falling and gasping for breath all at once, and I feel so unbelievably happy.

Jacqueline Pawl

#56. I promised myself I would leave her alone and up until then, I really thought I could. But hearing her laugh and seeing her in her nightshirt did me in. She deserved one last tease.

Veronica Daye

#57. My wheelchair was the key to seeing all this happen - especially since God's power always shows up best in weakness. So here I sit ... glad that I have not been healed on the outside, but glad that I have been healed on the inside. Healed from my own self-centered wants and wishes.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#58. I'm going to keep seeing him as much as I can. We'll see what happens," I say, realizing that just "seeing what happens" is my version of "going for it.

Emily Giffin

#59. I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the end the reader sees, and with little reluctance, that he is not abnormal at all, and that the main character might as well be himself.

Patricia Highsmith

#60. There's nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms.

Scott Adams

#61. Say what you will about seeing the bright side in every situation, but sometimes there is no bright side. Sometimes the only thing to see is darkness for miles and miles with no way to find even a single glimmer of light.

Amy Matayo

#62. Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

Isaac Asimov

#63. I realized then, that Cassie was going to kiss me. As my eyes found hers, something opened up between us. It was as if I was seeing something deeper inside her, then I ever had before. Without any words, I saw then, that Cassie loved me.

Melanie Cusick-Jones

#64. I have always been drawn to young characters and seeing big tapestries through the eyes of a child. It probably comes from being a father myself and having a young son and seeing the world through his eyes. I write stories that are sort of the exaggerated version of that.

Jeff Lemire

#65. Cities like Portland, Seattle, and Long Beach, which have made these investments in their infrastructure, are seeing not only health advantages, but also a lot more exchange in the community, which leads to better policy-making and stronger communities.

Ben Sollee

#66. Here's how to create an inspired vision for your life: Change the scope of your thinking from seeing is believing to believing is seeing.

DeWayne Owens

#67. I bet when Winston Churchill was writing his memoirs he didn't keep getting interrupted by two blokes bawling that the ties they took off the night before had mysteriously disappeared, and demanding I find them, seeing as I was the one last seen tied up with them.

Gillibran Brown

#68. I have never known the mind of a wolf hunting a deer, but I imagine it must feel a little like this. The twisted excitement of seeing the weak and wounded cowering before you. The knowledge that, in this instant, you have the power to end its life or grant it mercy. In this moment, I am a god.

Marie Lu

#69. Reading The Alchemist was like getting up at dawn and seeing the sun rise while the rest of the world still slept.

Paulo Coelho

#70. Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

Philip Roth

#71. I used to pass the flowers by without seeing them, as almost every man does.

Lloyd C. Douglas

#72. I think the notion of traditional anchor is fading away - the all-knowing, all-seeing person who speaks from on high. I don't think the audience really buys that anymore. As a viewer, I know I don't buy it.

Anderson Cooper

#73. The urge for retribution, therefore, seems to depend upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior. Despite

Sam Harris

#74. There are the samskaras, the tendencies from your other lifetimes, ways of seeing, habits that are so strong, they affect you now. They are the operative situations in your life that are created by karma.

Frederick Lenz

#75. There are many ways of seeing the world. You can hang upside down from a meteor, volunteer to be the fourth stage of a three-stage rocket, or simply get in a balloon and keep going. But if it's sheer, unadulterated discomfort you're looking for, just stay on land.

Michael Palin

#76. We are all equal not because we partake in some peculiar nature or because we share in the same credo of unreasoned beliefs, but because we take it that no thinking being is incapable of seeing reason.

Matthew Stewart

#77. The appreciation of wine was based solely on the way it tasted. The invention of drinking glasses meant that the color, transparency, and clarity of wine became important, too. We are used to seeing what we drink, but this was new to the Romans, and they loved it.

Mark Miodownik

#78. He was tired of seeing his family only in dreams.

Larry McMurtry

#79. There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States.

Walter Russell Mead

#80. 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

#81. When we listen for feelings and needs - we can see that people who seem like monsters are simply human beings whose language and behavior sometimes keep us from seeing their humanness.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#82. The worst day is just that I did not enter the culinary world sooner. And the best day was seeing the reaction of my one year old daughter when she tasted her first crisp apple!

Geoffrey Zakarian

#83. Isn't it better not knowing? Like, just liking each other and seeing each other all the time without any definition to it?

John Corey Whaley

#84. When you truly stop seeing your children's tendencies through eyes of judgment, they will feel the change and respond in positive ways you cannot yet anticipate.

Carol Tuttle

#85. Working on an essay versus a novel is like the difference between seeing to that curtain and seeing to New Jersey.

Sloane Crosley

#86. Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that one is claimed by what is being said.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

#87. Economic recession?" "Well, you see, five million years ago the Galactic economy collapsed, and seeing that custom-built planets are something of a luxury commodity, you see ...

Douglas Adams

#88. The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have to honour.

Eve Ensler

#89. I'm sure that hasn't changed and he's still about as exciting as a kiddie roller coaster." And seeing as how Cat typically selected vacation destinations based on the proximity of the best amusement park, this was the highest of insults.

Christine Bell

#90. I'm looking forward to seeing some sexy football.

Ruud Gullit

#91. There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

Abraham Lincoln

#92. There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

Natalie Portman

#93. On a good night, I'm just into the flow and seeing the pictures and words in my mind clearly before I say them. On a bad night, which to be honest are nowhere near as bad as when I was starting out, I just concentrate on performing the routines correctly. I focus on my delivery.

Franklyn Ajaye

#94. The puzzle that is created by seeing the 'relative' is called worldly life (sansaar)! It would never be this way had one seen the 'Real'.

Dada Bhagwan

#95. Work such as you will not have to have the money. Adore like you've got by no means been damage. Dance like nobody's seeing.

Satchel Paige

#96. Now I sense the perfume of flowers like seeing a new thing.
I know they smell just as well as I know I existed.
They're things known from the outside.
But now I know with my breathing from the back of my head.

Alberto Caeiro

#97. The actors come and you start seeing things happen for real.

Ramin Bahrani

#98. History is personal, Gwen understands that now. All you are seeing is what's before you, the rest is guesswork.

Alice Hoffman

#99. If you look around, you can find a face of God in each thing, because He is not hidden in a church, in a mosque, or a synagogue, but everywhere. As there is no one who lives after seeing him, there is also no one dying after seeing him. Who finds Him, stays forever with him.

Shams Tabrizi

#100. It's a new normal and I really do think that global weirding is the best way to describe what we're seeing.

Katharine Hayhoe