Sight Quotes - Page 40

• Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.

  D. Wayne Calloway

  Sports, Business, Focus

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• But I think I see what these guys' problem is. You know... aside from the lack of a spine and the latent misogyny? As long as they continue to act like women are a separate species and, thus, not relate to us as HUMAN BEINGS, they'll continue to alienate the majority of us on sight or send those unfortunate souls who actually date them (Bleh!) screaming into the night.

  Sharon Cooper

  Night, Thinking, Long

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• The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront larger predicaments. No rescue by the monied, governing, institutional, or otherwise privileged is in sight. It's up to the energy and inventiveness of the younger generation to pull the gated minds of millennium America toward acceptance of diversity, community, and fairness, and I hope they have as much fun as I did in my adolescences achieving what we Sixties kids only imagined.

  Mike A. Males

  Fun, Kids, Acceptance

  Mike A. Males (1999). “Framing youth: ten myths about the next generation”, Common Courage Pr

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• In those same decades, most UFO sightings were made in the daytime and frequently at close range, when shapes and surface features could be distinguished, thus making positive identification of normal sights easier and the descriptions of unusual sights more detailed. When all normal explanations had been eliminated, the witnesses could concentrate on those aspects of the experience which were most abnormal.

  Don Berliner

  Abnormal, Shapes, Unusual

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• For more than 50 years, men and women around the world have reported sights in the sky that are strange to their experience and understanding. Inasmuch as many of these sights appeared to be solid objects having impressive performance, they have become known as Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) or, colloquially, flying saucers. Their positive identification is one of the major public scientific challenges of the era, with a significant number of these sights so far defying all reasonable efforts at classification.

  Don Berliner

  Men, Years, Sky

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• I wonder what my father saw in his most secret sight of the right life. It's my guess he wanted to live out his life surrounded by friends and children and fertile fields of his own designing. I tihnk he wanted to die believing he had been in one the creation of a good sweet place. Those old pilgrims believed stories in which the West was a promise, a far away place where decent people could escape the wreckage of the old world and start over. Come to me, the dream whispers, and you can have one more chance.

  William Kittredge

  Dream, Sweet, Children

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• In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.

  Publilius Syrus

  Argument, Loses

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• When you really love someone, you think about him all the time. No matter where you are or what you're doing, he never completely leaves your thoughts. When you're apart, you want to be with him. When you're together, you're conscious of every move he makes, every word he says, and every breath he takes. Just the sight of him makes your heart race and your mouth go dry. And when he touches you, the rest of the world disappears.

  Betsy Brannon Green

  True Love, Moving, Heart

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• First of all, who's your A&R?
  A mountain climber who plays an electric guitar?
  But he don't know the meaning of dope,
  When he's lookin for a suit and tie rap
  That's cleaner than a bar of soap!
  And I'm the dirtiest thing in sight,
  Matter of fact, bring out the girls and let's have a mud fight.

  GZA

  Girl, Rap, Fighting

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• Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it.

  Charles de Saint-Evremond

  Retirement, Regret, People

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• 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.

  Walter Pater

  Reality, Calling, Firsts

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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• To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Reality, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.781, Hamilton Books

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• I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing.

  Jean Gabin

  Song, Thinking, What If

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• But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

  Krist Novoselic

  Singing, Songwriting

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• I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.

  Alain Resnais

  New York, Singing, Detectives

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• The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

  Norman Granz

  Dancing, Singing, Band

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• Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Writing, Thinking, Goal

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• My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.

  Kate Smith

  Light, Hair, Singing

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• I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

  Fantasia Barrino

  Song, Singing, Church

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• But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

  Placido Domingo

  Voice, Long, Singing

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• My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Singing, Energy, Reason

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• We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Blood, Should Have

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• And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room, an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

  John Donne

  Fear, Sea, Other Worlds

  John Donne, Theodore Redpath (2009). “The Songs and Sonets of John Donne”, p.227, Harvard University Press

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• By the time these students enter the workforce, many of the jobs they will apply for ill be in industries that don't even exist yet. That's a hard future to prepare someone for. Teachers have their sights set on the real goal: not to produce Ivy League graduates, but to encourage the development of naturally curious, confident, flexible, and happy learners who are ready for whatever the future has in store.

  Taylor Mali

  Teacher, Jobs, Real

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• It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Dancing, Ballet, Mind

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