Sight Quotes - Page 15

• All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspire, Doe, Affection

  "Don Quixote". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, II. 6, 1605-1615.

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• Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.

  Jewell Parker Rhodes

  Mother, Daughter, Hands

  Jewell Parker Rhodes (2012). “The Marie Laveau Mystery Trilogy: Season, Moon, and Hurricane”, p.385, Simon and Schuster

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• Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.

  Neal Stephenson

  Country, Baby, America

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.118, Spectra

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• Ooh, you look much tastier than Crabbe and Goyle, Harry" said Hermione, before catching sight of Ron's raised eyebrows, blushing slightly and saying "oh you know what I mean - Goyle's Potion looked like bogies.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Eyebrows, Looks

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.51, Pottermore

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• As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Laughter, Laughing

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Keeping the Moon”, p.71, Penguin

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• I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Love, Believe, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Lisa Kleypas from Sep 20, 2010

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• We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Loyalty, Stars, Pride

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Avatar”, p.456, Pan Macmillan

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• Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The necessary condition for an image is sight,'Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: 'We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

  Roland Barthes

  Photography, Eye, Order

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• The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and because in it nothing can be refused or transformed (that we can sometimes call it mild does not contradict its violence: many say that sugar is mild, but to me sugar is violent, and I call it so).

  Roland Barthes

  Doe, Sugar, Violence

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• Some say an army of horsemen some an army on foot others say ships laden for war are the fairest things on earth. But I say the fairest sight on this dark earth is the face of the one you love. Nor is it hard to understand: love has humbled the hearts of the proudest queens. And I would rather see you now stepping over my threshold than any soldier greaved in gold or any iron-beaked ship.

  Alison Croggon

  Queens, War, Heart

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• You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love Is, Looks, Know How

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• Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we think of crickets, perhaps, whose singing we hear with pleasure, though some of us smash them with our heels when they venture into sight.

  Gene Wolfe

  Clever, Thinking, Singing

  Gene Wolfe (1989). “Soldier of Arete”, p.362, Macmillan

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• Here I am not the one to throw out. No one steals my warmth and shoes because I am small. No one handles my backside. No one whinnies like sheep or goat because I drop in fear and weakness. No one screams at the sight of me. No one watches my body for how it is unseemly. With you my body is pleasure is safe is belonging. I can never not have you have me.

  Toni Morrison

  Sheep, Here I Am, Shoes

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• When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Loss, Honor, Principles

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2016). “Morning & Evening”, p.325, Bible Study Steps

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• So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. But on second thoughts it seems a cop-out, because the same could be said of Father Christmas and tooth fairies. There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Father, Science

  Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, April 15, 1992.

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• Maybe I’m just farsighted. The further away something is, the better I can see it but once it gets close, I lose sight of it.

  Ai Yazawa

  I Can, Loses, Closeness

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• Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes.Sometimes, people can discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Eye, People, Missing

  Cecelia Ahern (2009). “There's No Place Like Here”, Hyperion

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• [Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should have been there in your hand, ready for him. For you are a leader-don't you know it? I don't, surely, need to tell you?-And that is what leadership means. It means fortifying the fainthearted and giving them the two sides of your tongue while you are at it. It means suffering weak love and schooling it till it matures. It means giving up you privicies, your follies and your leasure. It means you can love nothing and no one too much, or you are no longer a leader, you are led.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Giving Up, Mean, Men

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• I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual code and starting fresh. Most philosophers haven't the courage for this; they swallow the basics of the present code--monogamy, family pattern, continence, body taboos, conventional restrictions on intercourse, and so forth--then fiddle with details...even such piffle as discussing whether the female breast is an obscene sight! (p.365)

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Female, Details, Body

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.342, Penguin

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• Clearly the sight of a well-muscled forearm incited a woman to utter depravity. How else to explain the invention of cuffs?

  Tessa Dare

  Cuffs, Invention, Depravity

  Tessa Dare (2009). “Goddess of the Hunt”, p.135, Ballantine Books

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• Again, Rayford slid to the ground, raising his arms. "My Lord and my God, I am so unworthy." "And you, Rayford, who once were alienated and an enemy in your mind by wicked works, yet now I have reconciled the body of My flesh through death to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in God's sight." "Unworthy! Unworthy!" Rayford cried. "Justified by faith," Jesus said, "Justified.

  Tim LaHaye

  Jesus, Mind, Enemy

  Tim F. LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins (2004). “Glorious appearing: the end of days”

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• To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Heart, Eye

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• Where I went in my travels, it's impossible for me to recall. I remember the sights and sounds and smells clearly enough, but the names of the towns are gone, as well as any sense of the order in which I traveled from place to place.

  Haruki Murakami

  Order, Names, Smell

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• I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not.

  Jean Webster

  Beautiful, Country, Differences

  Jean Webster (2016). “Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated”, p.90, Jester House Publishing

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• Out of sight above the house, the mirror moon reflected the sun of a day not yet dawned, shining the pale light of tomorrow on the yard and on the paper birches.

  Dean Koontz

  Moon, Mirrors, Light

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