Sight Quotes - Page 30

• We should never lose sight of the ethos that has made the Marine Corps - where 'every Marine is a rifleman' - one of America's cherished institutions and one of the world's most feared and respected fighting forces

  Robert M. Gates

  Military, Fighting, Marine

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• In green old gardens, hidden away From sight of revel and sound of strife, Here I have leisure to breathe and move, And to do my work in a nobler way; To sing my songs, and to say my say; To Dream my dreams, and to love my love; To hold my faith, and to live my life. Making the most of its shadowy day.

  Violet Fane

  Life, Faith, Dream

  Violet Fane, “In Green Old Gardens”

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• The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight, one journeying to heaven, one that falls; and leave you, not at home in either one, not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses, not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes a star each night, and rises; and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel) your life, with its immensity and fear, so that, now bounded, now immeasurable it is alternately stone in you and star.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Stars, Fall, Sunset

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “Evening”

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• I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Summer, Taken, Garden

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Over 120 Short Stories Including Rare Sketches From Magazines of the Renowned American Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.703, e-artnow

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• The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Love You, Lovers

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.124

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• Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Giving, Joy

  William Shakespeare (1871). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149

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• I imagine our first glimpse of Heaven will cause us to gasp in amazement and delight. That first gasp will likely be followed by many more as we continually encounter new sights in that endlessly wonderful place.

  Randy Alcorn

  Inspirational, Life, Heaven

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Heaven”, p.17, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Thus with the year
  Seasons return, but not to me returns
  Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,
  Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,
  Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.

  John Milton

  Summer, Sweet, Flower

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 37

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• The advent of the rubber ball was instrumental in creating an entirely different method of striking the object. The solid ball required to be hit for carry, whereas it was quickly apparent that the Haskell lent itself to an enormous run. I hold the firm opinion that from this date the essential attitude towards accuracy was completely lost sight of. This was the start of the craze for length and still more length.

  Harry Vardon

  Running, Attitude, Golf

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• When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. Itʹs obsession at first sight.

  Thomas Boswell

  Falling In Love, Golf, Firsts

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• Everybody teaches a system. I just try to shoot where I'm aiming. I play by sight and feel not by technical thoughts.

  Fred Couples

  Golf, Play, Trying

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• Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head To work my mind, when body's work's expir'd: For then my thoughts-from far where I abide- Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee, And keep my drooping eyelids open wide, Looking on darkness which the blind do see: Save that my soul's imaginary sight Presents thy shadow to my sightless view, Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night, Makes black night beauteous and her old face new. Lo! thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind, For thee, and for myself no quiet find.

  William Shakespeare

  Tired, Night, Journey

  Sonnet 27

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• Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

  Jesse Jackson

  God, Black And White, Yellow

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• We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

  Herbert Hoover

  Goal, Vanishing, Poverty

  Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.16, Stanford University Press

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• Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

  George Bernard Shaw

  Cities, Smell, Soul

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• A true champion is someone who wants to make a difference, who never gives up, and who gives everything she has no matter what the circumstances are. A true champion works hard and never loses sight of her dreams.

  Dot Richardson

  Softball, Sports, Dream

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• Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Real, Ignorance

  William Hazlitt (1821). “Table-talk: Or Original Essays”, p.37

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• It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years; but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man's character from the fountain upwards.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Spring, Flower, Character

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1993). “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: The Merry Men and Other Stories”, p.105, Wordsworth Editions

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• My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.

  Julian of Norwich

  Heart, Soul, Mind

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• Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Experience, Generations, Lasts

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• The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Grace, Good Man, Firsts

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.84, 谷月社

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• Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

  George Eliot

  Marriage, Wedding, Sea

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.503, Wordsworth Editions

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• I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Inspiration, Sea

  Mark Twain (1960). “The autobiography of Mark Twain: including chapters now published for the first time”

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• America's most dangerous and threatening black man is the one who has been kept sealed up by the Northerner in the black ghettos - the Northern white power structure's system to keep talking democracy while keeping the black man out of sight somewhere, around the corner.

  Malcolm X

  Ghetto, Men, Talking

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• Our nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. The outcome of this debate is important-and so is the way we conduct it. The same moral tradition that defines marriage also teaches that each individual has dignity and value in God's sight.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, Gay Marriage, Important

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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