That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
~By William Wordsworth ~
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
The office has oversight of people who do analysis and oversight of people who do operations, but it is not charged with doing either. That is an important point to make. Those functions are performed by the CIA, DIA and other agencies.
~By Stephen Cambone ~
Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.
~By Otto Dix ~
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
~By Denis Diderot ~
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.
~By Sibel Edmonds ~
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
~By Benjamin Banneker ~
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
~By Eileen Caddy ~
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.
~By Afrika Bambaataa ~
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
~By Henry R. Luce ~
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.
~By Elizabeth Wurtzel ~
There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.
~By George A. Smith ~
There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.
~By Andrew Coyle Bradley ~
I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.
~By Johnny Cash ~
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.
~By Jared Diamond ~
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
~By Edward Koch ~
As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.
~By Joseph E. Stiglitz ~
There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
~By Elias Canetti ~
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts.
~By Frank Gaffney ~
The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.
~By John Cale ~
With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.
~By Ken Follett ~
I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people.
~By Doc Watson ~
I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.
~By John Gould ~
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
~By Andre Gide ~
Like after a nice walk when you have seen many lovely sights you decide to go home, after a while I decided it was time to go home, let us put the cubes back in order. And it was at that moment that I came face to face with the Big Challenge: What is the way home?
~By Erno Rubik ~
And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.
~By Ray Stannard Baker ~
And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.
~By Ernst Toller ~
Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.
~By Michael Schenker ~
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
All good Literature rests primarily on insight.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.
~By Paul Brunton ~
Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.
~By Robert B. Parker ~
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.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.
~By Mark Strand ~
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
~By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ~
Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.
~By Louis Freeh ~
And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.
~By Chaim Potok ~
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.
~By Barbara Bush ~
TSA serves as the operator, administrator and regulator for the nation's transportation security. But in fact, the TSA bureaucracy does all it can to thwart any conversion to a system with more private-sector operations and strong federal oversight and standards. This agency cannot, and should not, do it all.
~By John Mica ~
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
~By Larry Niven ~
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
~By George Savile ~
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not - nor will we ever - monitor ideology or political beliefs. We take seriously our responsibility to protect the civil rights and liberties of the American people, including subjecting our activities to rigorous oversight from numerous internal and external sources.
~By Janet Napolitano ~
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
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.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
~By Abraham Joshua Heschel ~
Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.
~By Robert Jay Lifton ~
God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.
~By William Lyon Phelps ~
Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight.
~By Dan Lipinski ~
I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility.
~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence.
~By Donald Cargill ~
Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country.
~By Pierre Loti ~
The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.
~By Pamela Stephenson ~
Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious.
~By Peter Lombard ~
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.
~By John Joly ~
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.
~By Thomas Gray ~
If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
~By Xun Zi ~
All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo.
~By Richard H. Davis ~
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
~By Eleonora Duse ~
People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
~By Albert Ellis ~
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
~By Jean Anouilh ~
The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream... Hang in there.
~By James De La Vega ~
A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam.
~By John Millington Synge ~
The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.
~By John Barton ~
Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.
~By Charles Rangel ~
One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.
~By Melanie Klein ~
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
~By Alexander Pope ~
If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas.
~By Thomas Perry ~
For we walk in faith, not by sight.
~By Jesus Christ ~
It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name.
~By Orson Pratt ~
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
~By Charles Stanley ~
In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.
~By Ron Wyden ~
What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system.
~By Kurt Huber ~
My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
~By Kate Smith ~
It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.
~By Scarlett Johansson ~
In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
~By Kofi Annan ~
It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.
~By Mel Martinez ~
I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun.
~By Zac Efron ~
Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.
~By Samuel Dash ~
I think that together the church has learned a lot, and as we know from our own oversight board, the involvement of our wonderful lay leaders has been a real grace.
~By Roger Mahony ~
I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
~By A. R. Ammons ~
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
It has given me an insight into what it's like as an actor to come into a show in the middle of a production and fit into a group that's already established.
~By Corin Nemec ~
What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
~By Sam Francis ~
When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university.
~By Koichi Tanaka ~
Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.
~By John Poindexter ~
No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
~By Jean Toomer ~
When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.
~By Dexter Gordon ~
Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.
~By Don Henley ~
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