Quotes of Sight - somelinesforyou

“ The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future. ”

- Joel A. Barker

“ The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. ”

- Plato

“ Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. ”

- Miyamoto Musashi

“ Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong. ”

- Thomas a Kempis

“ I have never been over fond of scenes anywhere. ”

- Chris Bailey

“ He that is strucken blind cannot forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Dreams and visions are infused into men for their advantage and instruction. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?". ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. (Ah! he can see enough, when years are told, Who backwards looks.). ”

- Victor Hugo

“ And finds with keen, discriminating sight, Black's not so black — nor white so very white. ”

- George Canning

“ The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see. ”

- Sir John Denham

“ Two men look out through the same bars; one sees the mud and one the stars. ”

- Frederick Langbridge

“ The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age — as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight. ”

- Phyllis Diller

“ I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes. ”

- Leo Durocher

“ Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey. ”

- Harold V Melchert

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

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen. ”

- Ben Jonson

“ Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. ”

- Vincent D’Onofrio

“ Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. ”

- Miriam Beard

“ We go where our vision is. ”

- Joseph Murphy

“ One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ”

- Andre Gide

“ Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement. ”

- Johann Georg Zimmermann

“ It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation. ”

- Pooh’s Little Instruction Book

“ If you have a vision, do something with it. ”

- Anthony J. D’Angelo

“ When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight. ”

- Michael Bridge

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

- Edna Ferber

“ And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind. ”

- Thomas a Kempis

“ Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision. ”

- Helen Keller

“ When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along. ”

- Carl Sandburg
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