Sight Quotes

If we need to be reminded to love one another, then we have already lost sight of the very essence of our existence.

If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas.

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.

Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

The sight of burnt orange makes me puke.

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

But we should not lose sight of how far we are coming and what a big hole we were left by George W. Bush.

Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape.

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.

When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky.

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.

The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.

It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun.

What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.

I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream... Hang in there.