Sight Quotes - Page 24

• Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.

  Colum McCann

  Mistake, Moving, Pride

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.246, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I didn't like the way I looked, the way I dressed and moved, what I achieved and what I felt I was worth. But there was so much energy in me, such belief that one day I'd be handsome and clever and superior and admired, such anticipation when I met new people and new situations. Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill? Sometimes I see the same eagerness and belief in the faces of children and teenagers and the sight brings back the same sadness I feel in remembering myself.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Children, Clever, Teenager

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.38, Vintage

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• Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sunday, Way, Flow

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• The place was packed as we flooded in, all the patrons freezing at the sight of an armed sheriff, two deputies, an Indian, and a construction worker; we probably looked like the Village People.

  Craig Johnson

  Construction Workers, Two, People

  Craig Johnson (2013). “The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set”, p.446, Penguin

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• Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Mistake, Childhood

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim.

  Thomas Mann

  People, Ticklish, Stranger

  Thomas Mann, Stanley Appelbaum (1995). “Death in Venice”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Thinking, Doors

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• Han spotted a child‟s homespun dolly in the ditch, pressed into the mud. He reined in, meaning to climb down and fetch it so he could clean it up for his little sister. Then he remembered that Mari was dead and had no need of dollies anymore. Grief was like that. It gradually faded into a dull ache, until some simple sight or sound or scent hit him like a hammer blow.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Children, Grief, Blow

  Cinda Williams Chima (2011). “The Exiled Queen (The Seven Realms Series, Book 2)”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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• Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us away from our ghosts and ancestors, who cried salty rivers into the sand. That's where Momma was now, wailing at the water's edge, while her girls were pulled out of sight under white sails that cracked in the wind.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Moving, Wind

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• A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his last strength, he waved frantically and called for help. Someone on board peered at him scornfully and shouted back, "Get a boat!

  Daniel Quinn

  Sea, Gathering, Boards

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure”, p.126, Broadway Books

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• Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Doors, Wonderful, Dread

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• Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Holocaust, Body, Hiding Place

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• And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?

  Scott Westerfeld

  America, Rivals

  Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson (2012). “Goliath”, p.292, Simon and Schuster

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• Take off your shirt." Jace raised his eyebrows. "I'm not going to attack you," she said impatiently. "I can take the sight of your naked chest without swooning." "Are you sure?" he asked, obediently sliding the shirt off his shoulders. "Because viewing my naked chest has caused many women to seriously injure themselves stampeding to get to me.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eyebrows, Swooning, Naked

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Lost Souls”, p.402, Simon and Schuster

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• A mortal had woven it, a man who, having caught sight of the Seelie queen, had spent the remainder of his short life weaving depictions of her. He had died of starvation, raw, red fingers staining the final tapestry.

  Holly Black

  Queens, Short Life, Men

  Holly Black (2002). “Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale”, Simon Pulse

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• The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mind, Wonder, Reason

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• Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight.

  Shane Koyczan

  Beautiful, Giving, Three

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• Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.

  Dallas Willard

  Trying, Doe, Sometimes

  Dallas Willard, Jan Johnson (2015). “Hearing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional”, p.72, InterVarsity Press

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• The minister said, “Let us pray,” but as everyone else bowed their head, I could only stare slack-jawed at the sight of Peter Van Houten. After a moment, he whispered, “We gotta fake pray,” and bowed his head.

  John Green

  Fake, Praying, Moments

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.175, Penguin UK

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• It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years. Yet those memories can be awakened and brought forth fresh and new, just by something you've seen, or something you've heard, or the sight of an old familiar face.

  Wilson Rawls

  Memories, Lying, Men

  Wilson Rawls (2011). “Where the Red Fern Grows”, p.3, Laurel Leaf

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• Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight

  Terry Goodkind

  Beautiful, Men, Lines

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Blood Of The Fold”, p.406, Head of Zeus

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• The bristling eyebrows shot up in mock surprise. Mesmerized. the boy watched them disappear under the hanging white thatch of hair. There, almost coyly, they remained just out of sight for a moment, before suddenly descending with a terrible finality and weight.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Boys, Hair, Eyebrows

  "The Amulet of Samarkand". Book by Jonathan Stroud, September 30, 2003.

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• Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light: Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or sight: Nor wintry leaves nor vernal; Nor days nor things diurnal; Only the sleep eternal In an eternal night.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Stars, Sleep, Night

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, L. M. Findlay (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.78, Psychology Press

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• No one must ever let power or social, economic, or political interest turn him or her away from other human beings, from the attention they deserve and the respect they are entitled to. nothing must ever lead to a person to compromise this principle or faith in favor of a political strategy aimed at saving or protecting a community from some peril. The freely offered, sincere heart of a poor, powerless individual is worth a thousand times more in the sight of God than the assiduously courted, self-interested heart of a rich one.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Heart, Self, Political

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• Rache,” he said, trying to get into my line of sight. “What more do you need? God to send a telegram?" (Jenks)

  Kim Harrison

  Trying, Needs, Lines

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