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Yes, I was in love with my husband at first sight and still am. We have the most solid relationship.
Author:
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.
Author:
Israel Zangwill
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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.
Author:
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
Author:
Francis Wright
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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.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
Author:
Naomi Wolf
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A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.
Author:
Roy Williams
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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.
Author:
Esther Williams
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I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player.
Author:
Sue Wicks
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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.
Author:
Ellen White
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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.
Author:
Arthur Waite
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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.
Author:
Alfred Vigny
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The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream... Hang in there.
Author:
James Vega
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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.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.
Author:
William Tyndale
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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Author:
Mark Twain
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
Author:
Mao Tung
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No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
Author:
Jean Toomer
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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.
Author:
Ernst Toller
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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.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.
Author:
Fred Thompson
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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.
Author:
John Synge
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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.
Author:
Theodore Sturgeon
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It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling.
Author:
David Strathairn
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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
Author:
Bram Stoker
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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.
Author:
Neal Stephenson
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
Author:
Stendhal
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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
Author:
George Shaw
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How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
Author:
William Shakespeare
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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.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Author:
Albert Schweitzer
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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.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.
Author:
Michael Schenker
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The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
Author:
George Savile
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Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.
Author:
Jean Savarin
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I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.
Author:
Jean Savarin
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Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight.
Author:
Marilyn Savant
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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.
Author:
Carl Sandburg
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
Author:
Sa'Di
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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.
Author:
Marquis Sade
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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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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.
Author:
Leo Rosten
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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.
Author:
Jeremy Rifkin
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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.
Author:
Jef Richards
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Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike. Faces, though, can be quite different and a damn sight more interesting!
Author:
Lee Remick
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I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.
Author:
Keanu Reeves
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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.
Author:
Charles Rangel
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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.
Author:
Orson Pratt
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No sight that human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered thick with stars.
Author:
Llewelyn Powys
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He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Author:
Anthony Powell
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Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
Author:
Titus Plautus
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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.
Author:
William Phelps
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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.
Author:
Thomas Perry
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We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.
Author:
Richard Perle
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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.
Author:
Lester Pearson
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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.
Author:
Ivan Pavlov
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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.
Author:
Walter Pater
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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
Author:
Ovid
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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.
Author:
Simon Newcomb
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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.
Author:
Nelson Miles
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The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.
Author:
Moses Mendelssohn
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Author:
Herman Melville
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Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!
Author:
Michael McKean
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
Author:
W. Maugham
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In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.
Author:
George Mason
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
Author:
Karl Marx
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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
Author:
Christopher Marlowe
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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.
Author:
Orison Marden
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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.
Author:
Douglas MacArthur
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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.
Author:
Pierre Loti
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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.
Author:
Dan Lipinski
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The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
Author:
Charles Lint
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The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
Author:
Charles Lint
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Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.
Author:
Robert Lifton
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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.
Author:
C. Lewis
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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.
Author:
Sam Levenson
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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.
Author:
Geddy Lee
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It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.
Author:
Christine Lavin
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In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.
Author:
Walter Lang
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Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
Author:
Thomas Kempis
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Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
Author:
Helen Keller
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The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Author:
Helen Keller
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The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
Author:
Helen Keller
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From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.
Author:
Mary Jones
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If we need to be reminded to love one another, then we have already lost sight of the very essence of our existence.
Author:
Darren Johnson
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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.
Author:
Muhammad Iqbal
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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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.
Author:
Herbert Hoover
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We've lost sight of our role in the region and our view of our colleagues in the region.
Author:
John Hewson
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Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
Author:
Barbara Hershey
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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
Author:
Katharine Hepburn
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The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.
Author:
Jesse Helms
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This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.
Author:
Edmond Halley
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Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.
Author:
Thomas Gray
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For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Author:
Vincent Gogh
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Author:
Andre Gide
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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.
Author:
Carlisle Floyd
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My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring.
Author:
Geoffrey Fisher
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These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.
Author:
Steve Finley
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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
Author:
Edna Ferber
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This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.
Author:
Siobhan Fahey
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
Author:
Faith Evans
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Author:
George Eliot
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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.
Author:
Zac Efron
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You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
Author:
John Dryden
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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.
Author:
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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.
Author:
Otto Dix
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I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
Author:
Walt Disney
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They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
Author:
Emily Dickinson
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With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first sight-but it hasn't happened to me yet.
Author:
Leonardo DiCaprio
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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.
Author:
Richard Davis
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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.
Author:
Gray Davis
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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.
Author:
Samuel Dash
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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.
Author:
Bobby Darin
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
Author:
Sidonie Colette
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
Author:
Nat Cole
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For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
Author:
Albert Claude
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A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable.
Author:
John Clark
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For we walk in faith, not by sight.
Author:
Jesus Christ
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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.
Author:
Lord Chesterfield
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Author:
Lord Chesterfield
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We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be Heaven.
Author:
Joshua Chamberlain
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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.
Author:
Johnny Cash
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It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.
Author:
Howard Carter
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Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.
Author:
Helena Carter
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A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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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.
Author:
Donald Cargill
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I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.
Author:
Donald Cargill
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There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
Author:
Elias Canetti
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The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.
Author:
John Cale
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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.
Author:
Barbara Bush
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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
Author:
Sitting Bull
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
Author:
Sitting Bull
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Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.
Author:
Paul Brunton
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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.
Author:
Jesse Brown
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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.
Author:
Andrew Bradley
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And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them.
Author:
Robert Boyle
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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.
Author:
Hal Borland
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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.
Author:
Nellie Bly
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
Author:
Otto Bismarck
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Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
Author:
Augustine Birrell
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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.
Author:
John Bernal
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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.
Author:
Paul Begala
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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.
Author:
Bruno Bauer
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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
Author:
Natalie Barney
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Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
Author:
Benjamin Banneker
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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.
Author:
Afrika Bambaataa
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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Author:
Marcus Aurelius
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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
Author:
Jean Anouilh
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In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
Author:
Kofi Annan
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Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.
Author:
Mario Andretti
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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.
Author:
A. Ammons
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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.
Author:
Aeschylus
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The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
Author:
Joseph Addison
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In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
Author:
Ansel Adams
