Sight Quotes - Page 18

A warrior cannot lower his head - otherwise he loses sight of the horizon of his dreams.

Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

One of the greatest enemies to vision is sight!

That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.

I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!

It's easy to lose sight of God when life is sweet and easy, but there is something awesome about despair, and it is the closeness of God when we are at our weakest.

But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.

In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus, the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new masters and whispering in his ears sinister prophesies of coming catastrophe.

In God's sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.

The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God's sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history

It's amazing what the sight of four gentlemen with red crosses on their backs can to injured players.

I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.

The gift of sight to see beyond The darker clouds of now!

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.

Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked into yours as the quietest and kindest of marriages.

When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side.

You are not what has happened to you. You are what you choose to become.

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

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.

Most of my projects seem to start as exploratory journeys with no visible end in sight.

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.

Chemistry is, well technically, chemistry is the study of matter. But I prefer to see it as the study of change.