In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
~By Mao Tse Tung ~
My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
~By Kate Smith ~
All good Literature rests primarily on insight.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
~By Barbara Hershey ~
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 ~
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 the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
~By Eleanora Duse ~
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
~By William Shakespeare ~
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 ~
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 ~
I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
~By Arthur Golden ~
I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.
~By Kitty Carlisle ~
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 ~
I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
~By Leo Durocher ~
I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns.
~By Tom Hicks ~
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 ~
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
~By Victor Cherbuliez ~
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 ~
Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment.
~By Simon Newcomb ~
And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.
~By Chaim Potok ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.
~By Robert Reed ~
While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.
~By Clifford Stoll ~
Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
~By Sitting Bull ~
I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player.
~By Sue Wicks ~
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.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
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 ~
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 ~
But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.
~By Geddy Lee ~
If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.
~By Nelson A. Miles ~
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
~By Mark Twain ~
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 ~
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.
~By Richard Eyre ~
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 ~
It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
~By Arthur E. Waite ~
It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesn't seem to appeal very widely.
~By Jonathan Coe ~
In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
~By Barack Obama ~
In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
~By Kofi Annan ~
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 ~
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
~By Leo Rosten ~
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
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 ~
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 ~
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
~By Warren G. Bennis ~
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
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 ~
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 ~
The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
~By Charles de Lint ~
Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished.
~By James T. Walsh ~
Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.
~By David Mellor ~
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
~By Sam Levenson ~
Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
~By Natalie Clifford Barney ~
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 ~
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 ~
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
~By Walter Pater ~
I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.
~By Keanu Reeves ~
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
~By Edmund Wilson ~
In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
~By Edward Koch ~
I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so I have some insights that go a little further than people who haven't had contact with the deaf community.
~By Richard Masur ~
Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
~By Alan Dean Foster ~
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 ~
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
~By Helen Keller ~
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 ~
The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.
~By Fred Thompson ~
With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.
~By Francis Arinze ~
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.
~By John Lennon ~
The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views.
~By Greg Ginn ~
We have people in the band who don't drink or do drugs... some of us like to go sightseeing.
~By Mike Shinoda ~
What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.
~By Jock Sturges ~
It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.
~By William Bernbach ~
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
~By Alexander Pope ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
~By Jean Anouilh ~
There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life.
~By Klaus Fuchs ~
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
~By Helen Keller ~
Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul did much good by his preaching, but how much more by his writings.
~By Henry Martyn ~
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~
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 ~
Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
~By Francis Beaumont ~
To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.
~By Tony Snow ~
The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
~By Charles de Lint ~
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
~By Phyllis Diller ~
Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
~By Helen Rowland ~
If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
~By Barack Obama ~
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 ~
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 ~
No sight that human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered thick with stars.
~By Llewelyn Powys ~
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 only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.
~By Mike Tyson ~
Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.
~By Neal Stephenson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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