Quotes with sight

Quotes 41 till 60 of 90.

  • Camille Paglia Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • André Gide Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Bobby Darin My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Marquis de Sade Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Barbara Bush Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Wayne Calloway Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear, And he shows them pearly white. Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear And he keeps it out of sight.
    The Threepenny Opera prologue
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Jesse Jackson Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow - red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.
    Jesse Jackson
    American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader (1941 - )
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  • Thomas à Kempis Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Benjamin Banneker Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
    Benjamin Banneker
    African-American almanac author, and surveyor (0 - 1806)
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  • Leonard Cohen Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Afrika Bambaataa Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth Some people hate the sight of me as soon as they see me on television. They loathe the look of me, and I accept that from the days of variety. I would walk on and some people would open a newspaper and think, 'He's first on, so he can't be any good.' I accept that.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Seneca The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Plautus The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Alice Walker The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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