Sight Quotes - Page 7

• Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

  A. R. Ammons

  Events, Anticipation, Poet

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Justice, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Strong, Time, Passing By

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (43), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in our city, seeing a young woman on a bike.

  Paul Auster

  Girl, New York, Nice

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• Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.

  Hank Azaria

  Real, Loss, Grieving

  "One-Man Show: Hank Azaria". Interview with Mickey Parkin, www.elle.com. March 14, 2012.

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• There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

  James M. Barrie

  Scotland, World, Scottish

  What Every Woman Knows (1918) act 2

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• In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

  Saint Basil

  Eye, Mind, Doe

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.147, CUA Press

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• Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.

  Martha Beck

  Moving, Journey, Way

  "Reasons to feel good about the future" by Martha Beck, edition.cnn.com. January 9, 2008.

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• Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself in the astral world, visible to the astral sight.

  Annie Besant

  Feelings, World, Auras

  Annie Besant (2016). “Karma”, p.14, BookRix

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• Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

  John Betjeman

  Children, Dark, Smell

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• Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

  Augustine Birrell

  Friendship, Heart, Sky

  Augustine Birrell (1922). “The Collected Essays & Addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...”

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• I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Inspiring, Three, Nudity

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• Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight.

  Lewis Black

  Clouds, Jigsaw Puzzles, Blue

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• On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.

  Nellie Bly

  Funny, Farewell, Long

  Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.44, Nellie Bly

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• Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Singing, Feels, Comfortable

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• I was a daredevil before, and after I lost my sight I was the same. I loved riding bikes, scooters and horses. I even learned to box. Muhammad Ali is my hero.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Horse, Hero, Riding

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• Losing my sight had nothing to do with my focus on music. My passion for music was already there, so it would be a mistake to give too much significance to my blindness.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Mistake, Passion, Giving

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• The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than my blood type. People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Blood, People, Way

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• The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Travel, Adventure, Memorable

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.85, Vintage

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• October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.

  Hal Borland

  New Horizons, October, Hills

  Hal Borland (2014). “This Hill, This Valley”, p.255, Open Road Media

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• Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

  Sitting Bull

  Fake People, Native American, Men

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• 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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