Sight Quotes - Page 28

We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.

When I first caught sight of (Mount Shasta) over the braided folds of the Sacramento Valley I was fifty miles away and afoot, alone and weary. Yet all my blood turned to wine, and I have not been weary since.

One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight.

Very strange bridges are used to make the passage from one state of things to another; we may lose sight of them in our surveys of general history, but their discovery is the glory of historical research. History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our present.

Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.

Documenting trips makes them that much richer. I stick in train tickets and business cards from restaurants. It makes the whole experience poetic, describing the sights, smells and sounds around me. It means I can relive the holiday years later.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Faith, like sight is nothing apart from God. You might as well shut your eyes and look inside, and see whether you have sight as to look inside to discover whether you have faith.

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works, objects whose very disproportion constitutes an element of beauty.

Though we cannot SEE angles, we can INFER them, and this with great precision. Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and developed by long training, enables us to distinguish angles far more accurately than your sense of sight, when unaided by a rule or measure of angles.

You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.

I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.

Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.

The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false.

It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.

Yes, I was in love with my husband at first sight and still am. We have the most solid relationship.

The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights.

When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter.

It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.

This antitrust thing will blow over.

Whenever I am embraced by land and seascape I draw ideas for new sculptures; new forms to touch and walk around, new people to embrace, with an exactitude of form that those without sight can hold and realize... ...It is essentially practical and passionate.

For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may no longer be that of least resistance. In studying the physical aspect, we must never lose sight of the psychological, and only when both are combined is the strategy truly an indirect approach, calculated to dislocate the opponent's balance.

O God, do not leave me. I have done nothing good in Your sight, but according to Your goodness, let me now make a beginning of good.