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Sight Quotes (page 20)

Samuel Beckett quote: "From things about to disappear I turn away in time. To watch..."
From things about to disappear I turn away in time. To watch them out of sight, no, I can't do it. Samuel Beckett
There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought. Zora Neale Hurston
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
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight."
An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight. Laurell K. Hamilton
Honore de Balzac quote: "Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts,..."
Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls? Honore de Balzac
I forgot to mention,” Father Christopher said, smiling seraphically at Sir Martin, “that I am also a priest. So let me offer you a blessing.” He pulled out a golden crucifix that had been hidden beneath his shirt and held it toward Lord Slayton’s men. “May the peace and love of our Lord Jesus Christ,” he said, “comfort and sustain you while you take your farting mouths and your turd-reeking presence out of our sight.” He waved a sketchy cross toward the horsemen. “And thus farewell. Bernard Cornwell
voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever. I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of ma Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.--- Friedrich Nietzsche
Nobody knew what form of intimidation Mr. Radley employed to keep Boo out of sight, but Jem figured that Mr. Radley kept him chained to the bed most of the time. Atticus said no, it wasn't that sort of thing, that there were other ways of making people into ghosts. Harper Lee
Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships. Robert M. Pirsig
Ayn Rand quote: "The sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human..."
The sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others. Ayn Rand
To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions. John Ruskin
E. B. White quote: "Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in..."
Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone. E. B. White
What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Heraclitus quote: "Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive."
Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive. Heraclitus

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