Quotes About Sight

#1. We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves.

John Venn

#2. She gazed at the bay of wrecked shuttles in dismay. The last of her adrenaline seeped away at the sight of the widespread destruction.

It occurred to her then, for perhaps the first time in this long nightmare, that she was going to die.

G.S. Jennsen

#3. Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

John Ruskin

#4. Heart Breaking, I think that if Dad, staring down the sight of a 10mm, would only tell me he loves me, I could easily change my mind ... but he won't.

Ellen Hopkins

#5. Even a life raft is only supposed to get you from the sinking ship back to land, you were never intended to live in the life raft, to drift years on end, in sight of land but never close enough.

Nick Flynn

#6. A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.

Anatole Broyard

#7. By sight and observation and thought, with the help of the camera, and the addition of the date of the year, we can hold fast the history of the world.

August Sander

#8. To lift an autumn hair is no sign of great strength; to see the sun and moon is no sign of sharp sight; to hear the noise of thunder is no sign of a quick ear.

Sun Tzu

#9. The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.

Helen Keller

#10. When I am training, I don't want any disturbances. I have to be focused, not losing sight of my targets. I cannot evade the fact that I am now well known and I have made already some money, but you can learn how to deal with it.

David Rudisha

#11. !!!!!!!!!!NO TRESPASSING!!!!!!!!!!
All trespassers will be shot on sight. All survivors will be shot again.

SAS Institute

#12. The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

Daniel J. Boorstin

#13. Speak to all men as you do to yourself, with no concern for the effect you make, so that you do not shut them out from your world; lest in isolation the meaning of life slips out of sight and you lose the belief in the perfection of creation.

Leo Szilard

#14. God's eyes are always on you, you are precious in His sight

Sunday Adelaja

#15. Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

John Robert Seeley

#16. Through the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber, Past the wan-mooned abysses of night, I have lived o'er my lives without number, I have sounded all things with my sight.

H.P. Lovecraft

#17. Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator.

J.I. Packer

#18. When they answered the bell on that wild winter night. There was no one expected - and no one in sight.

Edward Gorey

#19. You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.

Clive Barker

#20. She can't stand the sight of me, Helen. The one girl, the only girl who's ever really shook me up - and I horrify her.

Josephine Angelini

#21. First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these ... sometimes led her to walk into doors.

Terry Pratchett

#22. No wonder many people dare not look closely at life: It's a horrible sight.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#23. Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment.

Simon Newcomb

#24. A comely sight indeed it is to see, a world of blossoms on an apple tree.

John Bunyan

#25. How can you fall in love at first sight when you can't even see?

Melinda Cross

#26. Hope sees a crown in reserve, mansions in readiness, and Jesus Himself preparing a place for us, and by the rapturous sight she sustains the soul under the sorrows of the hour.

Charles Spurgeon

#27. I don't have an ideal type; I'm more of a love-at-first-sight guy.

Onew

#28. An infinite, inscrutable blackness has annihilated sight! Where is our universe? All crumbled away from us; and we, adrift in chaos, may hearken to the gusts of homeless wind, that go sighing and murmuring about in quest of what was once a world!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#29. Illium was a stunning sight against the lightening sky, his wings sweeping through the air with a grace that made him seem a half-forgotten dream. When he landed in the courtyard, his wings flaring out for an instant, he was at once very much a man, physical and sexual, and an unattainable fantasy.

Nalini Singh

#30. Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, 'Where is it?'

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#31. The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.

Gary Snyder

#32. The author points out that novices to total war, and this Hitler and the British press have in common, overreact to daily events and lose sight of overall strategy.

William Manchester

#33. Their goal was in sight. They had a Titan with a very loud kitten on their side. That had to count for something.

Rick Riordan

#34. A smile is the most pleasing sight one could behold when talking to another person.

Ronald A. Valentino

#35. The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

Lord Byron

#36. Love such a funny word; a worse emotion. It's crazy because it has the ability to give you strength, happiness and mostly belief. At the same time this thing call love can turn you bitter, insecure and allow you to lose sight of who you are in that same moment.

Mz. Baltimore

#37. One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.

Alain De Botton

#38. It was like I was in love with her, even though I didn't know her. Kind of like love before first sight.

Kami Garcia

#39. Mrs. Figg, their batty old neighbor, came panting into sight. Her grizzled gray

J.K. Rowling

#40. Whether it's an ad or organic content, video provides a new creative dimension for storytelling on 'Instagram'. Video lets people convey the power and beauty in a moment through sight, sound, and motion.

Kevin Systrom

#41. Love at first sight, she wrote giddily to Millie. But of course such feelings weren't 'true' love (that was what she would feel for a child one day), merely the false grandeur of madness.

Kate Atkinson

#42. Love - well, not love at first sight, but love at the end of the season, which is so much more satisfactory.

Oscar Wilde

#43. God never loses sight of the treasure which He has placed in our earthen vessels.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#44. Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.

John Desmond Bernal

#45. [At first sight of the Acropolis:] It's beige! My color!

Elsie De Wolfe

#46. When you lost sight of your path, listen for the destination in your heart (Allen Walker, D-gray Man)

Katsura Hoshino

#47. Hutch called into the semidarkness of The Shed. 'Somebody's coming, Heck!'
Then he, with the rest, faded from sight with that uncanny quickness known only to creatures of the wild and young children who are, after all, also creatures of the wild.
("The Shed")

E. Everett Evans

#48. A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his last strength, he waved frantically and called for help. Someone on board peered at him scornfully and shouted back, Get a boat!

Daniel Quinn

#49. Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight

William Shakespeare

#50. People believe those fairytales about falling in love at first sight at the bus, subway, or at the streets. But it doesn't make sense how they'd laugh at the ones who fell in love at first sight through TV screens. Loving a celebrity IS a type of love. Love is fair to everyone.

Tablo

#51. Where's Izzy?" cried Alice.
"I'm right here!" Izzy was heard, but there was no sight of her floating friend.
"Izzy's invisible!" yelled Melanie.
"Invisible and flying!" Colleen added nervously.

Katie Mattie

#52. Amen, amen! but come what sorrow can,
It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
That one short minute gives me in her sight:
Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
Then love-devouring death do what he dare;
It is enough I may but call her mine.

William Shakespeare

#53. Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.

Ben Carson

#54. Just the sight of him brought back everything that was good and homelike to her mind. It was like coming back to her own room after being away a long time with strangers.
It was where she belonged.

L.J.Smith

#55. Love at first sight makes perfect sense because we're all pressed for time.

Bob Smith

#56. Would you like to hear of my first sight of the Germans? I'll use adjectives to make it more lively. I usually don't.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#57. This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.

Ramana Maharshi

#58. To construct is the essence of vision. Dispense with
construction and you dispense with vision. Everything you experience by sight is your construction.

Donald D. Hoffman

#59. Holy shit!" Moondance swung around, her face now streaked with the ashy remains of the nephilim, her eyes wide at the sight of me. "Callie's back, and she brought a laser gun!

Carol Goodman

#60. Go! dive into the Southern Sea, and when
Th'ast found, to trouble the nice sight of men,
A swelling pearl, and such whose single worth
Boasts all the wonders which the seas bring forth,
Give it Endymion's love, whose ev'ry tear
Would more enrich the skilful jeweller.

William Davenant

#61. I was at that age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me. And worse, I was in love.

Haruki Murakami

#62. Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.

Robert Kennedy

#63. We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end.

Tom Petty

#64. There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

Helen Keller

#65. No one can fall in love at first sight. Love is built over years, not snapped into existence like a flame that can be as easily extinguished.

Kate Elliott

#66. 16Wash yourselves and be clean! Get your sins out of my sight. Give up your evil ways. + 17Learn to do good. Seek justice. Help the oppressed. Defend the cause of orphans. Fight for the rights of widows.

Anonymous

#67. By the time Gandhi met Muhammad Ali in Delhi in April 1915it was, Gandhi said, 'love at first sight.'

Joseph Lelyveld

#68. I'm not walking by sight- I'm, walking by faith

T.D. Jakes

#69. Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.

Neal Stephenson

#70. Ico ran back to the windmill, growing increasily nervous with each moment Yorda was out of his sight. He didn't want to think what would happen if the shadow-creatures attacked while they were apart.

Miyuki Miyabe

#71. Sometimes when you meet someone, there's a click. I don't believe in love at first sight but I believe in that click. Recognition.

Ann Aguirre

#72. Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world of men with women, men are sexually dominating women.

Andrea Dworkin

#73. His mind was like a cruel prison, giving his captive soul a sight of freedom, but no more

Irvine Welsh

#74. Why was I led astray by a tiger brightness? Why did a false sun lure me so far from home? ... my eyes had looked at something forbidden and seen what they should never have seen, and now sight itself had gone out of them ... never again would I see the blinding glare of enemy eyes.

Anna Kavan

#75. I go out every night with a homemade sextant and sight Deneb. It's kind of silly if you think about it. I'm in my space suit on Mars and I'm navigating with sixteenth-century tools. But hey, they work.

Andy Weir

#76. For those roses bright, oh, those roses bright!
I have twined them in my sister's locks
That are hid in the dust from sight.

Phoebe Cary

#77. Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight.

Camille Paglia

#78. Home will always be here
Unseen, out of sight
Where I disappear and hide
I think dreamy things as I'm waving goodbye
So I'll spread out my wings and fly

Owl City

#79. Chloe, I'm not kidding. I'm not letting you out of my sight until Christmas." She squinted up at the later afternoon June sun. "Christmas? That sounds a little gimp-in-the-basement for my tastes." "If you're not into that, this relationship might not work after all," I teased.

Christina Lauren

#80. We have not yet reached the goal but ... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Herbert Hoover

#81. Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.

Jonathan Edwards

#82. Redwoods flourish in fog, but they don't like salt air. They tend to appear in valleys that are just out of sight of the sea. In their relationship with the sea, redwoods are like cats that long to be stroked but are shy to the touch.

Richard Preston

#83. Celestial light, shine inward ... that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight

John Milton

#84. Prince Doran had closed the draperies of his litter as soon as the Spear Tower came in sight, yet still the small folk shouted out to him as the litter passed. The Sand Snakes have stirred them to a boil, the captain thought uneasily.

George R R Martin

#85. Something in those jittery black-and-golden scraps recalled her sight's desire. So it always went, with life and its paler imitations.

Richard Powers

#86. When I was young, I was a sucker for smooth men. Bryan Ferry hired me, at 19, to be painted blue and dress up as a mermaid for the cover of his album 'Siren.' It was love at first sight.

Jerry Hall

#87. Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my sight. On the bed I have Roget's Thesaurus, a dictionary, a Bible, and a deck of playing cards.

Toni Morrison

#88. She wondered why no one saw through her disguise. Perhaps people could see only what they expected, what fit inside their vision, as if human vision came in precut shapes more narrow than the world itself, and this allowed her to hide in plain sight.

Carolina De Robertis

#89. The issue I focus on the most is extreme poverty. I think it's kind of out of sight out of mind. I wish there would be more stories about that to connect people to what's happening. To personalize it, to make it real to people, to inspire them to action.

John Legend

#90. The sheer splendor of the sight made my chest tighten and tears sting my eyes. All the darkness lately made it easy to forget the world contained more than people trying to hurt other people. It had beauty, too, if you knew where to look
and remembered to open your eyes.

Jeaniene Frost

#91. I pray every night, sometimes long prayers about a lot of things and a lot of people, but I don't talk about it or brag about it because that's between God and me, and I'm no better than anybody else in God's sight.

Peyton Manning

#92. One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.

Rumi

#93. She was, in fact, beginning very much to wonder that she had ever thought him pleasing at all; and his sight was so inseparably connected with some very disagreeable feelings, that, except in a moral light, as a penance, a lesson, a source of profitable humiliation to her own mind, she would have

Jane Austen

#94. The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

Charles De Lint

#95. As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.

P.G. Wodehouse

#96. King Uthil says steel is the answer. I say his sight is short. Dust is the last answer to every question, now and always.

Joe Abercrombie

#97. Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight ...

Madame De Stael

#98. When the system you want to be a part of so badly turns you into someone you're unhappy with and you lose sight of yourself, is it worth it? Er ... probably not.

Felicia Day

#99. If I were a blind man and were told by you that you possess a faculty called sight, I should be unreasonable if I railed at you as a conceited enthusiast.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#100. Real evil wasn't about bending the law to suit justice: evil was acting out of small, intensely personal expedience and losing sight of the bigger picture so often that you never got it back again.

Karen Traviss