And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.
~By Chaim Potok ~
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
~By Sa'Di ~
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
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 ~
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 ~
Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.
~By Walter Lang ~
One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.
~By Paul Begala ~
The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.
~By Jesse Helms ~
I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it.
~By Theodore Sturgeon ~
Yes, I was in love with my husband at first sight and still am. We have the most solid relationship.
~By Catherine Zeta-Jones ~
I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
~By Leo Durocher ~
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 ~
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.
~By Tom Seaver ~
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.
~By Moses Mendelssohn ~
Fear is the mother of foresight.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
~By Faith Evans ~
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.
~By Hal Borland ~
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
~By Aeschylus ~
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
~By Arnold Bennett ~
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.
~By Jesse Brown ~
Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
We've lost sight of our role in the region and our view of our colleagues in the region.
~By John Hewson ~
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.
~By Ivan Pavlov ~
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 ~
I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.
~By Rita Dove ~
I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium.
~By Will McDonough ~
Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
~By Sitting Bull ~
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
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 ~
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 ~
As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.
~By Martha Beck ~
It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.
~By Vin Diesel ~
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 ~
That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.
~By John Joly ~
There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes.
~By Edward Witten ~
When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.
~By Lester B. Pearson ~
Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.
~By John Desmond Bernal ~
Insight is the first condition of Art.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
~By Arthur Golden ~
A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.
~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
~By Kofi Annan ~
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 ~
I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.
~By Judy Chicago ~
My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.
~By John Astin ~
I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life.
~By Jenny Agutter ~
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 ~
And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.
~By Douglas MacArthur ~
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
~By Alfred de Vigny ~
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 ~
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
~By Billy Wilder ~
It's a very typical UFO sighting. Carter said it changed color and, in the physical report, described it as being about the size of the moon. And he saw it with about twenty-five other people.
~By Dwight Schultz ~
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 ~
There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on that. We're preparing for the worst, but we're hoping for the best. And I've told people the end is in sight.
~By Gray Davis ~
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
~By John Dryden ~
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.
~By Bruno Bauer ~
There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
~By Elias Canetti ~
The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.
~By Ellen G. White ~
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
~By Fyodor Dostoevsky ~
And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals.
~By Richard Ben Veniste ~
On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.
~By Nellie Bly ~
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 ~
I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood.
~By Terry Brooks ~
You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios.
~By James Galway ~
It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.
~By Carlisle Floyd ~
When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.
~By Esther Williams ~
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 ~
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.
~By Dennis Miller ~
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 ~
The idea of making pictures abroad is exciting when you're in Hollywood and have never worked in foreign countries. You think you'll get to see the sights and have all the fun that goes with traveling. Actually, you spend so much time on the job that you don't do much else.
~By Jeffrey Hunter ~
These studies resulted eventually in a complete sequence analysis of the complex from several species, and in the atomic resolution structure of the F catalytic domain of the enzyme from bovine mitochondria, giving new insights into how ATP is made in the biological world.
~By John E. Walker ~
While it may be true that the best advertising is word-of-mouth, never lose sight of the fact it also can be the worst advertising.
~By Jef I. Richards ~
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.
~By Emanuel Celler ~
Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.
~By Vince Gill ~
Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.
~By Mario Andretti ~
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 ~
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 ~
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
~By Edward Steichen ~
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character.
~By Walter Martin ~
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 ~
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 ~
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
~By Ovid ~
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.
~By Herbert Hoover ~
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
~By A. R. Ammons ~
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.
~By William Feather ~
I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.
~By Thomas Gray ~
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