Sight Beyond Sight Quotes

#1. The archbishop of St. Andrews threatened that if Knox preached, he would be shot on sight. Knox preached anyway, from Perth to Fife and beyond. As a result, the summer of 1559 saw an extraordinary revival spread throughout Scotland.59

Douglas Bond

#2. The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation,
a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God,
he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains.

Patrick Ness

#4. If you want to be a virtuoso then you have to set your sights above me. You have to go beyond what I'm doing. And that's for you to figure out. Because if you can do that, then I'm going to be trying to go beyond you.

Steve Vai

#5. I make believe all my dear ones are not gone, just out of my line of sight beyond some curtain or cluster of people, or tree

Nancy E. Turner

#6. only by believing in and looking for secrets could you see beyond the convention to an opportunity hidden in plain sight.

Peter Thiel

#7. In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.

Bruce Cockburn

#8. The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down in their desire; And, isled in sudden seas of light, My heart, pierced thro' with fierce delight, Bursts into blossom in his sight.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#9. Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever?

Juana Ines De La Cruz

#10. Flames curled out of all the windows next door. The rooftop beyond that was a lake of fire. Every building in sight was burning. The air was filled with crackling and popping sounds, with shrieks and screams coming from the street below.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#11. Dawn may not appear one to all. It depends on beholders how they look at life; whether they see the fading stars or the rising sun.

Ashmita Acharya

#12. Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They're not only the ending, but the beginning as well.

Benjamin Hoff

#13. I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors of flames and the sight of a woman suffering in them were giving him joy beyond measure.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

#14. It is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.

Rebecca West

#15. He [Walter Cronkite] was also a profoundly good man. I don't think we should lose sight of that. All those professional gifts emanated from a very good core and that's something that's beyond training. It's who he was.

Bill Clinton

#16. Those who die never truly leave us. They are forever there beyond the shimmering of light at the edge of sight.

Vanna Smythe

#17. Time? Time freezes
as they gaze
into each other's eyes.
No beginning, no end,
in sight, a deep vast ocean,
a universe is reflected.
Like a key to a lock,
they are.
All the days that have been,
all the days to come;
they stand in a place
beyond
and within it all.

Nancy Navene

#18. Ancient tradition always depicts a true Chinese musician as blind. Esoterically, this implies that his gift of the divine art is so completely guided by, and dedicated to, hosts of the celestial guardians, that both his sight and consciousness are focused above and beyond the objective world.

Corinne Heline

#19. By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib.

Michel Onfray

#20. There was some murmuring, but also some grins on the faces of the men looking on: the sight of their Captain sitting on the ground and eye to eye with a young hobbit, legs well apart, bristling with wrath, was one beyond their experience.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#21. Lepers were a common sight all over India and in every part of Calcutta, but extending help beyond dropping a coin or two into their rag-wrapped stumps was not. As a child I was convinced even touching a spot a leper had rubbed against would lead to infection.

Bharati Mukherjee

#22. I used to think I sewed us together at the edges with my own hands, pulled the stitches tight and I could unpick them any time I wanted. Now I think it always ran deeper than that and farther, underground; out of sight and way beyond my control.

Tana French

#23. Vision is beyond sight, it entails belief; it encompasses hope, it maintains possibilities - it is the epitome of *Dreams that Come True*

Gloria Sanders-Williams

#24. The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

Jean Paul

#25. I must be mad, or very tired, When the curve of a blue bay beyond a railroad track Is shrill and sweet to me like the sudden springing of a tune, And the sight of a white church above thin trees in a city square Amazes my eyes as though it were the Parthenon.

Amy Lowell

#26. Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big. The entire process is beyond intoxicating.

Kate Braverman

#27. Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.

Ted Koppel

#28. You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into ... the Twilight Zone.

Rod Serling

#29. To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality.

Starhawk

#30. The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.

David Clement-Davies

#31. I hear beyond the range of sound,
I see beyond the range of sight,
New earths and skies and seas around,
And in my day the sun doth pale his light.

Henry David Thoreau

#32. I know you are reading this poem through your failing sight, the thick lens enlarging these letters beyond all meaning yet you read on because even the alphabet is precious.

Adrienne Rich

#33. At first we cannot see beyond the path that leads downward to dark and hateful things but no light or beauty will ever come from the man who cannot bear this sight. Light is always born of darkness, and the sun never yet stood still in heaven to satisfy man's longing or to still his fears.

C. G. Jung

#34. Looking beyond the emerging markets, it is important not to lose sight of the growth opportunities that exist in the developed regions.

Louis R. Chenevert

#35. We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be Heaven.

Joshua Chamberlain

#36. For the introvert, conversation can be a very limited forum for self-expression. When a song moves you, a writer "gets" you, or a theory enlightens you - you and its creator are connecting in a realm beyond sight or speech.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#37. But it is not for thy valour only that I send thee, but to bring into the world a hope beyond thy sight, and a light that shall pierce the darkness.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#38. The gift of sight to see beyond The darker clouds of now!

John McLeod

#39. Learn to see people according to the Spirit instead of the flesh.

Sunday Adelaja

#40. Sight is not absolutely essential in this process, but we use sight because it is the dominant sense. It's easiest to interrupt the flow of thought in sense perception and move the mind beyond sense perception with sight.

Frederick Lenz

#41. There is not in sight any source of energy that would be a fair start toward that which would be necessary to get us beyond the gravitative control of the earth.

Forest Ray Moulton

#42. That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.

Ann Voskamp

#43. The material world is simply an expression of the mind; that's what so many fail to see. We're so dependent on what is before us that we discount our intuition. Yet if one dismisses instinct, how can one understand or believe in a world that exists beyond one's sight?

Megan Chance

#44. But beyond the bright searchlights of science,
Out of sight of the windows of sense,
Old riddles still bid us defiance,
Old questions of Why and of Whence.

William Cecil Dampier

#45. There is no doom so black or deep that courage and clear sight may not find another truth beyond it.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#46. The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed.

Umberto Eco