Sight Quotes - Page 4

It's easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.

My favourite pub game is, of course, snooker. Any game whose rules basically amount to finding a table covered in mess and slowly and methodically putting it all away out of sight is one with which I can empathise emphatically.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.

Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when one gives his or her order to produce a definite result and stands by that order, it seems to have the effect of giving one what might be termed a second sight which enables him or her to see right through ordinary problems. What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when one is in that state of mind in which he or she knows exactly what one wants and is fully determined not to quit until he or she finds it.

The artist's mission is to make the soul perceptible. Our scientific, materialist culture trains us to develop the eyes of outer perception. Visionary art encourages the development of our inner sight. To find the visionary realm, we use the intuitive inner eye: The eye of contemplation; the eye of the soul. All the inspiring ideas we have as artists originate here.

Those true eyes, Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise, The sweet soul shining through them.

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

I shall never forget my first encounter with gorillas. Sound preceded sight. Odor preceded sound in the form of an overwhelming, musky-barnyard, humanlike scent. The air was suddenly rent by a high-pitched series of screams followed by the rhythmic rondo of sharp pok-pok chestbeats from a great silverbacked male obscured behind what seemed an impenetrable wall of vegetation.

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

The beauty of You delights me. The sight of You amazes me. For the Pearl does this... and the Ocean does that.

There is no more beautiful sight in all this world than to see a family praying together. There is real meaning behind the oft-quoted ‘The family that prays together stays together.

To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality.

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

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

We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts, thus losing sight of our unchanging centre, which is pure consciousness. When we return to our true nature, our thoughts and perceptions no longer appear as modifications of a single substance, they come into being and subside like waves of the ocean.

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

In hindsight, I wish I had done more.

Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.