Top 100 Sees Quotes
#1. If you come as softly
as the wind within the trees.
You may hear what I hear.
See what sorrow sees.
If you come as lightly
as threading dew,
I will take you gladly,
nor ask more of you.
Jacqueline Woodson
#2. The religious way is the deep way, the way that sees what physical eyes alone fail to see, the intangibles of the heart of every phenomenon. The religious way is the way that touches universal relationships; that goes high, wide and deep, that expands the feelings of kinship.
Sophia Lyon Fahs
#3. He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#4. Sometimes I Do In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that light becomes this art.
Rumi
#5. The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake. - Leonardo da Vinci
Raine Miller
#6. What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.
Thomas Kuhn
#7. Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
Teresa Of Avila
#8. The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully acknowledged by that world.
Arlene Raven
#9. Besides, Kristy sees me being nice to old ladies ? Huge turn-on, right ? Girls really like that kind of thing. Except Amber, who won't look at a guy twice unless he's got a British accent and a crazy-ass wife locked in the attic, or whatever, but she is clearly abnormal.
Hannah Johnson
#10. If just one person, one child who is made to feel isolated, looks at me and sees that it is okay to be your own person and walk down your own path, then everything I have ever gone through will be worth it.
Johnny Weir
#11. When I come home, I'm not a basketball player, but "dad". While everyone sees me as an NBA player, to my boys, I'm just "dad" and that's very important.
Dwyane Wade
#12. Americans seemed no longer united so much by common beliefs as by common images: what binds us became what we stand witness to. Nobody sees this as a good change.
David Foster Wallace
#13. When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you look upon the lost like one that stands on a mountain sees those that stand upon the plain.
Gautama Buddha
#14. Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.
Charles William Eliot
#16. The social states of human kinds Are made by multitudes of minds, And after multitudes of years A little human growth appears Worth having, even to the soul Who sees most plain it's not the whole.
John Masefield
#18. Sanity is the one unbelievable bore. One must be mad, slightly twisted - then one sees life from a new and entrancing angle.
Agatha Christie
#19. A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle.
Buddy Hackett
#20. Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.
Rumi
#21. After all, people judge one another according to their own feelings. It is only the miser who sees other enticed by money, the lustful who see others obsessed by desire.
Irene Nemirovsky
#22. I cannot tell whether diamonds appeared in his eyes or mine as the shine of adoration became the icon one sees in history, a Byzantine sparkle, Medieval armor against all odds.
Alice Shapiro
#24. The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#25. The wave is born, and all it sees are other waves and feels these other waves are separate. But things are not as they seem. The wave is simply the ocean in specific expression. Once the life of the wave is over, it goes back to being the ocean. It was always the ocean.
Jeff Krasno
#26. He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.
Henry Ward Beecher
#27. The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
Confucius
#28. A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now goes by "hang-ups", was one in which men were obligated.
Wendy Shalit
#29. I must have Haley Joel Osment as my agent, because he only sees dead parts
Brenda Strong
#30. No hope for the journey if no one ever sees the dawn
Oasis
#31. He sees me based on what I can do for him, not who I am. He has an image of me and he doesn't want to see beneath the image. You can't be with a man who is unwilling or unable to see the real you.
Cathy Lamb
#32. Green tree. Pretty lady. Car. Car. Truck," she recites, naming out loud almost everything she sees. "Don't mind me, I'm a gabberbox," she chuckles. "A gabberbox?" I ask, confused at her term. "You know, hon, I talk a lot," she explains before breaking into a laugh that is eerily familiar.
John Waters
#33. For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.
Aeschylus
#34. A growing church sees that the work of the ministry should be done by all
Neil T. Anderson
#35. When he sees my pain, the old and new, he pushes me to give it to him. To give in to his need to consume all of it and make it his.
Willow Madison
#36. And whether a man dispassionately
Sees to the core of life
Or passionately
Sees the surface
They are essentially the same
Lao-Tzu
#37. A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.
Mike Royko
#38. If the doctors cure
then the sun sees it.
If the doctors kill
then the earth hides it.
The doctors should fear arrogance
more than cardiac arrest.
Anne Sexton
#39. All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
Karl Philipp Moritz
#40. Think about the whole Biblical story of Mary. She wakes up and sees something with a lion, eagle, and human face that wants to inseminate her with the Holy Seed. She's practically a saint just for not killing herself on the spot.
Thomm Quackenbush
#41. I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.
Susan Meiselas
#42. 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
#43. The love we hold sees no boundaries, it feels no limits, it crosses all frontiers. It can enrich us or send us spiralling to the deepest fathoms and if it is true, it can cross oceans and climb mountains, blind to race, creed and colour...It is a beautiful thing, this thing that claims our hearts.
Virginia Alison
#44. For instance, a man generally doesn't even know how small a woman is until he holds an article of her clothing up in front of him, one of her nightgowns, say, and sees how small and flimsy it is and how like a child's and unlike his own, and how thick and heavy his hands seem.
Russell Banks
#45. In the theatre the stage keeps the audience aware of the fictional nature of the action. The reader poring over a magazine, on the other hand, identifies what he sees in the photographs as real.
Gisele Freund
#46. What will it do to Jimmy's state of mind if he opens his eyes and sees three of his former beloveds bending over him like the three Fates? Demanding his everlasting love, his apologies, his blood in a cat food saucer?
Margaret Atwood
#47. It seems to me them that sees an evil thing unfold and don't do nothin' to prevent it, are just as bad as them that does the evil.
Kate Constable
#48. And Mother, I love her dearly, but she flies into a panic whenever I mention women's rights. As she sees it, it will be so much more difficult to marry me off if I am not only of a weak constitution but of a progressive mind as well.
Gwenn Wright
#49. I want her to understand that it's going to be a factor in her life. I just want her to know that (racism) does exist, and I want her to always be diligent, and if she sees it, address it and fight it.
Charles Barkley
#50. A father who sees his daughter leave in the arms of another man does not feel the same as a mother. It is heartrending for her, too. But it is not the same.
Claire Denis
#51. Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
Salman Rushdie
#52. The passion of the collector when confronted with a rare item, the enthusiasm of a hunter who sees a fine, handsome beast, can give us no idea of the tremendous love of clothes in some women.
Benito Perez Galdos
#53. God sees you. Not because of what you have done or not done but because you are loved.
Emily P. Freeman
#54. He was dreadfully short-sighted, and there was no pleasure in taking a husband who never sees anything.
Oscar Wilde
#55. When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that its one breath could dissolve him in a sea of a thousand charms and delights; but if one looks into the soul
it's nothing but a common crocodile.
Anton Chekhov
#56. When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.
Xun Zi
#57. Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.
Robert C. Solomon
#58. When the heart sees injustice it turns to the perspective of oneness.
It feels no need to produce a big speech to overcome its enemies.
In silence it finds its peace.
Raphael Zernoff
#59. I see the love in my child's eyes when he sees me, and I know it's gigantic. As an older person, I've been in love before, and I've loved, but this is really an immense, out-of-control-proportion amount of love that you can't even describe.
Kevin Nealon
#60. God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
John Ortberg
#61. Whoever lives as he sees fit will not die as he sees fit.
Shams Tabrizi
#62. Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.
Jimmy Carter
#63. He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself ... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.
Chanakya
#64. I'm going to paste it up on the wall so my dickhead uncle sees it the moment he walks in and stops going on about me losing it.
Melina Marchetta
#65. All kids are devils in disguise," Rose retorts, her forearms on the bar, "and apparently I'm the only one who sees them for what they really are." "And what is that?" "Small, tiny gremlins.
Krista Ritchie
#66. Again rejoicing Nature sees
Her robe assume its vernal hues
Her leafy locks wave in the breeze,
All freshly steep'd in the morning dews.
Robert Burns
#67. The world sees peace as the absence of conflict or pain, but Jesus offers us solace despite our suffering.
David E. Sorensen
#68. I remember thinking with a queer detached portion of my mind that here was someone wringing her hands. One reads about it and one never sees it, and now here it was.
Mary Stewart
#69. Not every one of us sees the beauty of the stars and innocence of the moon by looking at sky.
M.F. Moonzajer
#70. Start seeing yourself as God sees you, see yourself through God's eyes
Sunday Adelaja
#71. Her world is alien to the horrors I know. All the child sees is love.
Pierce Brown
#72. The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.
Flannery O'Connor
#73. She solves problems that people haven't predicted, sees things people haven't seen, and connects people who need to be connected.
Seth Godin
#74. God's love-eye does not see essentially into the wicked rebellious apostate soul; neither also into the devil, but his anger-eye sees thereinto; that is, God, according to the property of the anger or fire of wrath, sees in the devil, and in the false soul.
Jakob Bohme
#75. The forming of general maxims from particular observation is a very nice operation; and nothing is more usual, from haste or a narrowness of mind, which sees not on all sides, than to commit mistakes in this particular.
David Hume
#76. Barriers are continually being made out of ... new values which have overturned the barriers of the past. Thus one sees that it is not basically the new value that is of prime importance, but rather the spirit that is revealed in this value, as well as the freedom necessary for this revelation ...
Wassily Kandinsky
#77. I'm so used to taping myself and sending it off and never hearing back. I started to believe that nobody actually ever sees my tapes, apart from my agent.
Holliday Grainger
#78. Having seen my mom in community volunteer work my whole life and in Congress for 25 years, it is true as she often says that she sees her service as an extension of her role as a mother and a grandmother.
Christine Pelosi
#79. Blue is the most common eye color in Oria Province, but there is something different about his eyes and I'm not sure what it is. More depth? I wonder what he sees when he looks at me. If he seems to have depth to me, do I seem shallow and transparent to him?
Ally Condie
#80. No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
#81. The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
Paul Klee
#82. There is who loves you quietly, and respects you quietly, and wishes you privately, and walks away when he sees you busy with someone other than him, and his ego restrains him from getting near you, and contents himself with the love for the sake of love
Nizar Qabbani
#83. A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in the raw; he is generally a proclaimed cynic and pessimist who makes it his business to look behind words and fine speeches for the motive. This motive is always low.
Mary McCarthy
#84. Yoga takes us to an unconditioned freedom, because yoga sees even good habits as a form of conditioning or limitation.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#85. Women age early, and their mistake is not knowing where to hide all the time that lies behind them so that no one sees it. What are they to do, devour it like the umbilical cords of their children? Hell and damnation!
Elfriede Jelinek
#86. The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real existence of all these little beings.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
#87. When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.
Swami Vivekananda
#88. No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.
William Wordsworth
#89. Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible.
Jack Canfield
#90. Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense
Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry
Tamora Pierce
#91. A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.
Alfred Korzybski
#92. If God chooses quite another lot for you, you may be sure that He sees that you need something totally different from what you want.
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
#93. Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.
Rudyard Kipling
#94. Life is a game where fair players are winners! But as for the "injury causers", "red-card" sees their end off!
Israelmore Ayivor
#95. I do not want anyone to get close to me, I do not want anyone to see me, and this is the way things have developed: no one gets close and no one sees me.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#96. Communes also with the Divine, and in thinking out its own deepest thoughts, thinks out the thoughts of the great Creator Himself, becomes one with Him, finds its final realisation through absorption into Him, and in His light sees light.
George Santayana
#97. Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,
A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,
Atoms or systems into ruin hurled,
And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Alexander Pope
#98. A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.
John Stuart Blackie
#99. The sun flitered in through the small, dirty windows, catches his eyes. They are brown, ordinary, but the way he looks at me - no one has ever looked at me like he does. He looks at me like he sees something. Someone.
Me.
"All right," he says, and puts his hands behind his head.
"Go ahead.
Elizabeth Scott
#100. A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. - OSCAR WILDE, 1888
Erin Morgenstern
