Things We See Quotes

#1. The vision is not to see things just as we have imagined them to be. The vision is the freedom to live deliberately every day and that is a simply a choice.

Colleen Mariotti

#2. I do remember the moment when, as a child, I realized that the things we call 'TV shows' are really just the stuff that gets put between commercials. Later, I came to see that the kinds of things that get on 'free' TV are shows that help sell products.

Douglas Rushkoff

#3. When we decide to see things one way we are often incapable of seeing them any other way.

Sara Douglass

#4. Enlightenment is already there inside us and all things. All we have to do is get something out of the way that is causing us not to see that.

Frederick Lenz

#5. Do we soon forget the things we cannot see?

Tori Amos

#6. We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

Oswald Chambers

#7. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future.

John Green

#8. Next time you see a yardful of sprouting dandelions, note that they look remarkably like things we call "flowers." And later, when the flowers turn into fluff balls, look closely at one of those fluff balls and ask yourself whether it's really so unattractive.

Robert Wright

#9. We like things to manifest right away, and they may not. Many times, we're just planting a seed and we don't know exactly how it is going to come to fruition. It's hard for us to realize that what we see in front of us might not be the end of the story.

Sharon Salzberg

#10. What we need to do, as writers, is find out where our market is and adapt to it. I'm not saying that you follow every trend slavishly, but what you see is that, if there is a sea-change in the way that things are being done, then you account for it.

John Scalzi

#11. Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.

Andrea Hirata

#12. One of the ways we can bear the image of God well is to see things in others they don't see themselves and call that out of them.

Isaac

#13. Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#14. You want to marry me?" Xavier asked, and I saw some faces turn toward u in curiosity. "I was thinking we'd start slow and see where things went, but hey, what the hell!

Alexandra Adornetto

#15. Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out and say, We're at a wedding! Have some cake! You need to create a world into which we can enter, a world where we can see this.

Anne Lamott

#16. We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be.

Robert Fulghum

#17. We see in one another the things we cannot see or accept about

Iyanla Vanzant

#18. We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the shape of the world around us
its size, motion and meaning.

Nawal El Saadawi

#19. Bit if you look too long at the small rights, Jake - the ones that lie close at hand - it's easy to lose sight of the big ones that stand farther off. Things are out of joint - going wrong and getting worse. We see it all around us, but the answers are still ahead.

Stephen King

#20. I'd not known such mistakes to happen
but we don't learn so much
from those things we do correctly
so perhaps it's best we see poorly
through our misconstructed eyes

David R. Cravens

#21. Keep your faith in all things hidden. We believe in the stars when we cannot see them. We believe in the sun when it no longer shines for us. And we believe in the universal truth even when it is not shown clearly.

Hilary Thompson

#22. Attitude is everything, they say . . . and I believe this to be true. If we learn to see the positive side of things, then we'll live longer, healthier, happier lives. A good way to do so is to stop complaining and start being grateful.

David Hamilton

#23. You have to be like a sponge and use what you can and how it relates because TV is fluid. Things change on a week-to-week basis. Those are the things that I do with every character. If I'm involved in a boxing movie, I go see fights and learn about boxing. It's part of what we do.

Jimmy Smits

#24. What He said He would do He always did, and the things we already see fulfilled in His Word simply remind us that what He said about the future will take place just as surely.

David Jeremiah

#25. I'll see you later Roza."
"At our next practice?" I asked. "We are starting those up again, right? I mean you still have things to teach me."
Standing in the doorway, he looked over at me and smiled. "Yes. Lots of things.

Richelle Mead

#26. Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand.

James Elkins

#27. We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.

Joe Chung

#28. Love is noble," the magistra said. "And so we wrap it around all the things we think perhaps aren't so noble in hopes no one will see what they really are. Fear. Anger. Shame.

Daniel Abraham

#29. On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away.

Frederick Lenz

#30. It is very important to carefully observe the things we see before we judge. Things aren't always as they appear.

Ellen J. Barrier

#31. We're not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.

Grace Jones

#32. We climbed, he first and I behind, until though a small round opening ahead of us, I saw the lovely things the heavens hold, and we came out to see once more the stars.

Dante Alighieri

#33. You can't have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.

David Oyelowo

#34. I believe that we live in a time of fractured families where maybe fathers aren't getting enough time to see their kids because life's complications and hardships get in the way of those things.

Clive Owen

#35. Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life
and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

Dean Koontz

#36. I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

Arthur Golden

#37. When we dare to see things differently, life opens up to our eyes.

Paulo Coelho

#38. People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things we think everyone should get.

Bill Gates

#39. It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view.

Colin Wilson

#40. There are things in life that science will never be able to see. We have to rely on what has been passed from our ancestors, generation to generation.

Pawan Mishra

#41. We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed.

Alain De Botton

#42. Who can say it's not what we see with our eyes open that is distorted, and that what's described here isn't the true essence of things?" He slowed down outside a door. "Haven't you ever heard old men sigh that life's a dream?

Ismail Kadare

#43. Think you've seen it all? Think again. Outside those doors, we might see anything. We could find new worlds, terrifying monsters, impossible things. And if you come with me ... nothing will ever be the same again!

Steven Moffat

#44. How difficult it is to see
The things we love
With all this shadow round us,
This brief time we're here.

Ruth Padel

#45. I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.

Dido Armstrong

#46. Every chaos has an order hidden in it. What we see as a chaos, is actually driven by a very disciplined and dedicated order of things. What we need to do is focus on the stuff before us, make our way through this chaos, and that order will sort itself out for us

Sapan Saxena

#47. When we learn of Him, we see the things that we do wrong, we see what things need to be corrected in our way of thinking and our way of living.

Sunday Adelaja

#48. We don't see things. We see reflections of our feelings and perceptions.

Debasish Mridha

#49. Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.

Michael Jackson

#50. Rather than being so ready to jump into action to get the things that you want, we say think them into being; see them, visualize them, and expect them - and they will be.

Esther Hicks

#51. We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy, pain, loss, guilt and remorse.

Frederick Lenz

#52. So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference. To do the best we can and then to choose to be happy about our circumstances, whatever they may be, can bring peace and contentment.

Thomas S. Monson

#53. Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

Douglas Adams

#54. We [Notekillers] are in no way super-earnest about what we do and if you see us live, you see we are cracking up during songs and saying pretty ridiculous things in-between. We're having fun.

David First

#55. We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us; nor is it to be wonder'd at in children, who better understand what they see than what they hear.

John Locke

#56. I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just ... womanish.

Alice Walker

#57. Stay true to yourself because a lot of times women get so wrapped up in doing for a man that we forget to focus on us. A lot of times that is unattractive. They love us because we are independent and focused on the things that make us happy. Because when they see you happy, their happy!

Gabrielle Dennis

#58. We see things the way we are, not the way they are.

Anais Nin

#59. Sometimes the things we really want are right in front of us. We just don't see them.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#60. Life is a journey one that much better traveled with a companion by our side. Sometimes, we lose our companions along the way and then the journey becomes unbearable. You see, human beings are designed for many things, but loneliness isn't one of them.

Mary Alice

#61. Since many things we see were once an idea, let us create good ideas today because they will be the realities of tomorrow! When you create an idea, do not forget that you shape the future! Idea is your God side! With ideas, you can change the universe, but only with very great ideas!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#62. At URBN, we see ourselves as customer specialists, a collection of brands, each one specializing in one particular customer group, a particular lifestyle or a life stage. We offer her things she wants in environments that inspire her. We talk to her and listen to her ideas and opinions.

Richard Hayne

#63. I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.

Rodney Mullen

#64. In the spiritual realms, we can only see the things of the spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#65. We'll see some simplistic players for a while, who'll then get into more complicated things and evolve with their instruments. This is a cycle that happens over and over again in music.

Billy Sheehan

#66. The world is a fascinating, difficult place, and in order to take full advantage of what the planet has to offer, we need to see and hear natural things.

Bill O'Reilly

#67. We live next to each other." he reminded her. "I see lots of things.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#68. Because terrible things happen to everyone. We're all just so caught up in our own crap that we don't see the sit everyone else is wading through.

Amy Harmon

#69. We both see the same world, but in a different way. Ty feels the same joy I do, the joy of creation. We feel all the same things, only the shapes of our feelings are different.

Cassandra Clare

#70. You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

Herb Cohen

#71. Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Sherrie Eldridge

#72. Thus we see how that the spine of even the hugest of living things tapers off at last into simple child's play.

Herman Melville

#73. I have a really big interest in the spirit world: spooks and the things we can't necessarily see but feel.

Matana Roberts

#74. Our heart mends as our inner self - the central or innermost part of our identity - is wrapped around the Light inside of us, rather than around the people who have harmed us. This one small step changes the way we see things.

Suzanne Eller

#75. Sometimes we may seem to be resisting letting go, when really, we just can't see a way to move forward - believing things can never change for someone as unworthy as us.

Bryant McGill

#76. The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

David Foster Wallace

#77. The problem is so severe that trying to say, "First we'll fix the government and then we'll tackle climate change," or, "First we have to figure out alternative systems to capitalism and then we'll tackle climate change," I don't see how those things are possible in the very short term.

Margaret D. Klein

#78. Love never comes just a little bit at a time, I thought, as I watched him, absorbed in contemplation of the Virgin. The previous day, the world made sense, even without love's presence. But now we needed each other in order to see the true brilliance of things.

Paulo Coelho

#79. There is much of our world, we do not see. So, it is easy to assume nothing exciting happens in our quadrant of space, but we are dead wrong. Crazy, impossible things occur all the time. We simply need to know where to look.

Anita B. Sulser PhD

#80. We are Fragile, everyone. We all long for something more. Things are said and things are done and the pieces hit the floor. See how fragile.

Ralston Bowles

#81. When those closest to us respond to events differently than we do, when they seem to see the same scene as part of a different play, when they say things that we could not imagine saying in the same circumstances, the ground on which we stand seems to tremble and our footing is suddenly unsure.

Deborah Tannen

#82. What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see.

Louie Schwartzberg

#83. It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its results. Pretty soon we come to think of the theories and abstract ideas as things in themselves.

Walter Lippmann

#84. It's so sad that no one writes down the things we go through, and even worse - no one will ever know about it, no one will ever see or hear about it, no one will ever be able to restore.

Javier Marias

#85. It was the night things changed, can you see it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down It's a revolution, throw your hands up, 'cause we never gave in

Taylor Swift

#86. The longer a war lasts, the more things tend to depend on accidents. Neither you nor we can see into them: We have to abide their outcome in the dark.

Thucydides

#87. When you were a kid and the circus came to town it was awesome to see these little creatures, but these things go out of fashion, like polyester blazers with rolled up sleeves. We don't have to suffer them anymore so why are there all these little people running around?

Zach Braff

#88. We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down.

Lynette Fromme

#89. I maintain that in every position that arises, we should deliberately search, among other things, for pieces which have no retreat. If we see one, we automatically look to see if it can be netted.

Cecil Purdy

#90. I've always been so curious about death. With my personal beliefs as a Baha'i, we believe that birth and death are very similar and that we're here on this Earth to develop all of the things we can't see.

Justin Baldoni

#91. I just want to keep pushing things and growing, and we'll see what happens.

Nick Jonas

#92. In the United States, viewers don't get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn't get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it.

Brooke Burke

#93. There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see things, we can perceive things, and we can wonder. We can just be in a world of awe and wonder. That's the best we can do.

Frederick Lenz

#94. The Sacred isn't housed in a building or worn around your neck or something in the sky. The Sacred is the here and now we reside in, all breathing the same air, all imbibing the same water and made of the same earth with 'the life force' flowing through all living things.

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

#95. I dig the toe of my shoe into the dirt. "It's complicated."
"Is it? Most complicated things in life are actually pretty simple at the core. We put so much extra nonsense in the middle that we can't even see how easy it really is.

Emery Lord

#96. In the great tornado of life, things sometimes seem out of control, and we can't see where we are going. But sometimes, when the storm passes and the dust settles, things have landed into place beautifully.

Charisse Montgomery

#97. The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

Michel De Montaigne

#98. 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

#99. All things arise in unison. Thereby we see their return.

Laozi

#100. A lot of times, the reason we struggle to feel and receive the love of God - to see ourselves as His beloved, adopted children - is because we're not pursuing in our everyday lives those things His Word describes as being valuable and significant.

Matt Chandler