Sight Quotes - Page 5

• I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Girl, Blessed, Eye

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• It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

  Dodie Smith

  Beautiful, Simple, Dancing

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• Every man is a bachelor out of his wife's sight!

  Margaret Way

  Men, Wife, Bachelors

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• But let us not put our sights too high. We do not have to be saviours of the world! We are simply human beings, enfolded in weakness and in hope, called together to change our world one heart at a time. (163)

  Jean Vanier

  Heart, Our World, Together

  Jean Vanier (2008). “Becoming Human”, p.163, Paulist Press

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• Live by faith, not by sight.

  Mastin Kipp

  Live By

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• There was no magic encounter for me with a whale in the ocean; no being zapped by a whale as I snorkelled in their world. Nothing visible or capable of explanation. In fact, I'd never seen a whale. When I first witnessed their terrible death agony, I couldn't get the picture of a whale being harpooned out of my mind. It was a hideous mind-blowing sight. That day I recognised a purpose on the journey of my life.

  Sue Arnold

  Nature, Motivation, Ocean

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• I meant it when I said I didn't believe in love at first sight. It takes time to really, truly fall for someone. Yet I believe in a moment. A moment when you glimpse the truth within someone, and they glimpse the truth within you. In that moment, you don't belong to yourself any longer, not completely. Part of you belongs to him; part of him belongs to you. After that, you can't take it back, no matter how much you want to, no matter how hard you try.

  Claudia Gray

  Love, Believe, Fall

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• Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle speech and worldly talk, to buffoonery and cracking indecent jokes. There is self-indulgence in touching without necessity, making mocking signs with the hands, pushing for a place, snatching up something for oneself, approaching someone else shamelessly. All these things come from not having the fear of God in the soul and from these a man comes little by little to perfect contempt.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Men, Self

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• Of all the dear sights in the world, nothing is so beautiful as children when they are giving something. Any small thing they give. Children give the world to you. They open the world to you as if it were a book you'd never been able to read. But when a gift must be found, it is always some absurd little thing, passed on crooked. . . an angel looking like a clown. Children have so little that they can give, because they never know they have given you everything.

  Margaret Lee Runbeck

  Beautiful, Children, Book

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• Question the Chestnuts. Chestnuts: the new name for boobs? No. NO. Why would you even say that? Get your mind out of the gutter. No, by "chestnuts" I mean, "those old pieces of writing advice that you hear as common refrain." 'Write what you know.' 'Adverbs give Baby Jesus hemorrhoids.' 'If you write a prologue, an orphan loses his sight.' All the "old saws" need to be put on the chopping block.

  Chuck Wendig

  Baby, Jesus, Block

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• Familiarity with holy things can often engender blindness, and churches are, for all their merits, institutions that embody, perhaps more than most, the will to perpetuate themselves. In this process, they can easily lose sight of the purpose for which they came into being and, in so doing, frustrate the Spirit.

  Andrew Linzey

  Church, Merit, Purpose

  Andrew Linzey (2013). “Why Animal Suffering Matters: Philosophy, Theology, and Practical Ethics”, p.164, Oxford University Press

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• Last night I didn't realize I said "abortion" in my stand up comedy act instead of "circumcision." No wonder I got blank stares at "rabbi got faint at sight of blood."

  Ben Rosenfield

  Funny, Night, Blood

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• Father was a good driver and enjoyed driving, but the sight of a female in charge of a vehicle was sometimes too much for him. If a car came to close or made the smallest mistake with the rules of the road he shouted, "blasted woman driver", to which my mother was often able to say, with truth, "Funny thing, she's dressed as a man."

  Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

  Mother, Father, Mistake

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• It is impossible for forward play to be quite as safe as back play, because there must be a moment when the ball is out of sight.

  Ranjitsinhji

  Play, Safe, Balls

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• When consequentialist theories are developed in terms of an equally shallow psychology of the good - such as a crude form of hedonism - the results can sometimes strike sensible people as revolting and inhuman. People can be reduced to simple repositories of positive or negative sensory states, and their humanity is lost sight of entirely.

  Allen W. Wood

  Simple, People, Psychology

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Like, the smells and the sights and the sounds. As an artist, you want to sort of be able to engage that and get that down in some way. This is - this is a type of familiarity but a type of radical difference at the same time.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Artist, Smell, Differences

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• We will not really address our foreign policy and these endless wars that show no end in sight and seem to be getting deeper and broader and more catastrophic with each passing day.

  Jill Stein

  War, Addresses, Endless

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• I still feel the same way about God's Word as I did when I was 15 and lost my sight.

  Jennifer Rothschild

  Way, Lost, Feels

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• When we have a world where you have ISIS chopping off heads, where you have - and, frankly, drowning people in steel cages, where you have wars and horrible, horrible sights all over, where you have so many bad things happening, this is like medieval times. We haven’t seen anything like this, the carnage all over the world.

  Donald Trump

  War, Isis, People

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, www.cbsnews.com. October 10, 2016.

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• This distraction is what one wants, which is very, very bad for the muse, because the muse hates not being in the line of sight. It's no longer an external conflict, like, oh, I have all these demands and I don't like them. The split is in the self. This may explain why, when I was in Santa Barbara before I went to Singapore and then now to Hong Kong, there was a writing moment when I was writing a poem a day. I had never done that before.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Hate, Writing, Santa Barbara

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• We're good at noticing sudden movements of middle size objects in our immediate visual field, but what is out of sight is for us is largely out of mind.

  Dale Jamieson

  Mind, Movement, Fields

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think the other side of this is that while the contradictions matter, one of the things that you cannot lose sight of is that even with a guy like [George] Soros the thing that he doesn't question, which does unify that class, is that they don't want to get rid of the capitalist system, they don't see an alternative.

  Henry Giroux

  Thinking, Class, Guy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I grew up in New York City where there is no night sky. Nobody has a relationship with the sky, because, particularly in the day, there was air pollution and light pollution, and you look up, and your sight line terminates on buildings. You know the sun and maybe the moon, and that's about it. So what happens is that I am exposed to the night sky as you would see it from a mountaintop, and I'm just struck by it. Suppose I grew up on a farm where I had that sky every night of my life - then you're not going to be struck by it. It's just the wallpaper of your nighttime dome.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  New York, Moon, Night

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Watsons have lost sight of the fact that Mercy Watson is a pig, and they love her truly, madly, deeply. They live next door to two elderly sisters, Eugenia Lincoln and Baby Lincoln. Eugenia Lincoln is horrified that a pig is living in the house next door. Baby Lincoln secretly likes Mercy a great deal.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Baby, Pigs, Elderly

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• It's important for us not to lose sight of the fact that this is a family that's grieving and there's been a tremendous loss. And we all have to rally around that piece of it.

  Michelle Obama

  Loss, Grieving, Important

  Source: www.wbur.org

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