Sight Quotes - Page 7

• Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

  Barbara Bush

  Success, Congratulations, Teaching

  "Professor celebrating Barbara Bush’s death deserves to be fired" by Lauren DeBellis Appell, www.foxnews.com.

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• Sometimes the most happy people in life are the ones with nothing. We can't lose sight of the little things in life that should make us the happiest.

  Ryan Cabrera

  Things In Life, People, Littles

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• Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.

  Eileen Caddy

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

  John Cale

  Sunglasses, Reason, Audience

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, "You have no need for sight. Listen.

  Ann Patchett

  Light, Needs, Timing

  Ann Patchett (2009). “Bel Canto”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness: cut out the support, and beauty will sink from sight.

  John Steinbeck

  Cutting, Support, Foundation

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.59, Penguin

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• For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? --some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning--indeed they did.

  Virginia Woolf

  Morning, Years, People

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Collected Novels of Virginia Woolf - Volume II - Between the Acts, Mrs Dalloway, Orlando”, p.290, Read Books Ltd

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• A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

  C. S. Lewis

  Powerful, Eye, Moon

  C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a curious twist of their senses, as if they had tasted a string quartet, or been, for a moment, deafened by the sight of colour blue.

  Susanna Clarke

  Rain, Blue, Two

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.133, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

  Colin Powell

  Views, People, Needs

  "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. June 11, 2012.

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• If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

  Enoch Powell

  Travel, Mean, Journey

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• I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.

  Elvis Presley

  Money, Singing, Way

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• Highlight reels are about that one person. After a barrage of highlight reels, you get the sense that you can do it without a team. But music thrived the most when groups were involved. People lose sight of that - that community makes the world run.

  Questlove

  Running, Team, People

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• Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

  Leo Rosten

  Philosophical, Heart, Mind

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• After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Husband, Women

  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.45, Lulu.com

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• If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, Numbers, People

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• Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

  Marquis de Sade

  Lying, Mean, Men

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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  For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along.

  Carl Sandburg

  May, Lost, Found

  "Wade House".

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• Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Dog, Cat, Literature

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• No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

  Jessica Savitch

  Motivational, Monday, Goal

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Thorndike Pr

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• Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.

  Michael Schenker

  Depression, Loses

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• Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

  Robert Schumann

  Mind, Body, Failing

  Robert Schumann (2016). “Letters of Robert Schumann”, p.9, Ravenio Books

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• Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Philosophical, Animal, Thinking

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• The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

  Martin Scorsese

  Artist, Matter, Way

  "Tacita Dean: Film". Book by Tacita Dean, Unilever series vol. 12, 2011.

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• How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Deeds Done, Temptation

  'King John' (1591-8) act 4, sc. 2, l. 219

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