Sight Quotes - Page 27

To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some permissable manner made away with, and swept out of sight, is not an amiable faith.

For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.

When you have once gained sight, it is impossible to feign blindness.

I’m stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta.

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

You need to have a collaborative hiring process.

the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to the ocean, and bring your talky business to an end. Traditional words are just babbling in that presence, and babbling is a substitute for sight.

Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.

There is a witchery in the sea, its songs and stories, and in the mere sight of a ship, and the sailor's dress, especially to a young mind, which has done more to man navies, and fill merchantmen, than all the pressgangs of Europe.

The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical the ear, the more pleasant the melody. The more perfect the soul, the more joyous the joys of heaven, and the more glorious that glory.

The rishis of old attained the Knowledge of Brahman. One cannot have this so long as there is the slightest trace of worldliness. How hard the rishis laboured ! Early in the morning they would go away from the hermitage, and would spend the whole day in solitude, meditating on Brahman. At night they would return to the hermitage and eat a little fruit or roots. They kept their mind aloof from the objects of sight, hearing, touch, and other things of a worldly nature. Only thus did they realize Brahman as their own inner conciousness.

Great insight comes from seeing something as odd and finding out why.

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.

Because I'm so much in the spotlight, people lose sight of why I'm in the industry. In fact, I'm doing all this because I love to act. I love to perform, to sing.

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.

As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.

That's insightful, but equally insightful is what they say afterwards. The other thing that I always point out is it's one thing to talk to the candidate. It's quite another to talk to the staff, and that's when you find out what's really going on.

Q: Does this train stop at Brighton? A: I hope so or there's going to be a hell of a splash.

When you lost sight of your path, listen for the destination in your heart (Allen Walker, D-gray Man)