Sight Quotes - Page 3

• O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

  John Milton

  Loss, Enemy, Age

  1671 Samson Agonistes, l.67-79.

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  I Miss You, Romantic, Missing You

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• For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

  Victor Hugo

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Poems by Victor Hugo”, p.314, Victor Hugo

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• I don't believe in love at first sight. I think it's a grave mistake.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Mistake, Believe

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• As soon as they're out of your sight, you are out of their mind.

  Walter de La Mare

  Cat, Mind

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Personality, Corny

  The Common Reader (1925) "The Modern Essay"

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• I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing I had seen in three years. That the sight of her yawning to the back of her hand was enough to drive the breath from me. How I sometimes lost the sense of her words in the sweet fluting of her voice. I wanted to say that if she were with me then somehow nothing could ever be wrong for me again.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Beautiful, Sweet, Yawning

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.

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• Optical units close to each other on a picture plane tend to be seen together and, consequently, one can stabilize them in coherent figures.

  Gyorgy Kepes

  Together, Figures, Planes

  Gyorgy Kepes (1995). “Language of Vision”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

  Keanu Reeves

  Believe, Connections, Want

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• Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Relationship, Fall

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.49, Lulu.com

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• Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight!

  William Wordsworth

  Stars, Light, Looks

  William Wordsworth, Stephen Gill (2000). “The Major Works”, p.369, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The sight of the eye, the hearing of the ear, the touch of the hand may each and all be deceived, but the instructions of the spirit are in all things correct. The combined senses may misguide or fail, but he who happily secures the companionship of the Holy Spirit, walks in the ways of life and neither fears, becomes weary nor faints by the wayside.

  Moses Thatcher

  Fear, Failure, Eye

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• The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.

  John Jay Chapman

  Character, Men, Done

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Politics”

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• To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

  Stendhal

  Respect, Men, Should Have

  Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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• The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.

  Oscar W. Firkins

  Eye, Reality, Men

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• The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Real, Reading, Blind

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• When you get so that you can't see, you come to it gradually. And if you didn't come by it gradually, I guess you'd just kill yourself when you couldn't see.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Killing Yourself, Ifs

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.515, UPNE

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• Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them. They are the final, the nth whoopee of sight.

  Charles Demuth

  Writing, Eye, Talking

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• If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Watches, Letters, Want

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• All things reflect the divine energy of nature—every flower, every rock, every sound, every sight. Once we realize that truth, we cannot help but smile.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Smile, Nature, Truth

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• The sight of home looks best after you've traveled hundreds of miles to get away from it.

  Sam Ewing

  Home, Looks, Quiet

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• There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
  The earth, and every common sight,
  To me did seem
  Apparelled in celestial light,
  The glory and the freshness of a dream.

  William Wordsworth

  Dream, Light, Earth

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 1 (1807)

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• Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Running, Feet, Track And Field

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• Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Knowledge, Eye, Sensual

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• Right now in my life I spend much time dreaming over my visions of faith. I know this works. I would be a fool to ignore it. Remember, one of the mightiest keys in the Kingdom of Heaven is faith. Vision is a major part of faith, for we walk by faith and not by sight. Faith is directly contrasted to natural eye sight.

  Phil Pringle

  Dream, Eye, Keys

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