Quotes with sight

Quotes 61 till 80 of 90.

  • Germaine Greer The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Mark Twain There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Euripides There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Marshall Pugh They exchanged the quick, brilliant smile of women who dislike each other on sight.
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  • Albert Schweitzer Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Eric Hoffer Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Adam Smith To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Virginia Woolf We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Herbert Hoover We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • John Irving We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.
    Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1996) 340
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Becky Stark Well then you thought that the end was in sight
    And then you thought there was nothing to fight
    But you had opened your heart with your mind
    Oooh here comes one.
    Imagine Our Love Here Comes One
    Becky Stark
    American artist,  singer and entertainer
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  • Thomas à Kempis When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Carl Sandburg 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.
    Wade House: one of Wisconsins first stagecoach inns, its preservation and restoration, Kohler Co., 1957, p. 7
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung When animus and anima meet, the animus draws his sword of power and the anima ejects her poison of illusion and seduction. The outcome need not always be negative, since the two are equally likely to fall in love (a special instance of love at first sight).
    Aion (1951)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Christopher Marlowe Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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  • Christopher Marlowe Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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  • Christopher Marlowe Whoever loved that loved not at first sight?
    Hero and Leander
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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  • Naomi Wolf Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
    Naomi Wolf
    American author, journalist, feminist, and former political advisor (1962 - )
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