Sees Quotes

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.

However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition is rising and will continue to rise as the administration's policies force inflation.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

I think most of America is seeing the strings behind the campaign, and sees the crass political maneuvers that people are making. I mean, they're extremely apparent to me.

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.

I'm probably not 100 pounds anymore, but around there. I definitely got obsessed with my weight. When I met my husband and realized that he could put on 50 pounds and I'd still love him, I realized that's how he sees me or at least how he should!

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.

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.

Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.

I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids' show.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.

In 2001, Congress passed much needed tax relief to allow Americans to keep more of their hard earned money and spend it as they see fit - rather than how the federal government sees fit.