Sight Quotes - Page 37

In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.

The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye is the special portal to such sights.

Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.

Hinged to forgetfulness like a door, she slowly closed out of sight, and she was the woman I loved, but too many times she slept like a mechanical deer in my caresses, and I ached in the metal silence of her dreams.

Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

The absent are always in the wrong

Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it.

I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full of snow.

Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says--'I cannot stand anymore.' God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.

One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them.

Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

The state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight.

The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.

Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates.

Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.

And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.

You may not agree, you may not care, but if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in this world — and there are plenty — very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes.

The Mutakallemim... apply the term non-existence only to absolute non-existence, and not to absence of properties. A property and the absence of that property are considered by them as two opposites, they treat, e.g. , blindness and sight, death and life, in the same way as heat and cold. Therefore they say, without any qualification, non-existence does not require any agent, an agent is required when something is produced.

Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.

And at that moment a wind came out of the northwest, and entered the woods and bared the golden branches, and danced over the downs, and led a company of scarlet and golden leaves, that had dreaded this day but danced now it had come; and away with a riot of dancing and glory of colour, high in the light of the sun that had set from the sight of the fields, went wind and leaves together.

To love others you must first love yourself.

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.