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Quotes About Sight

Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes--and your enemy looks just like your neighbor.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
He would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of green-tinged spectacles which would correct his regrettable myopia, and after that he would be able to see through the dense, blinding air to the fabulous world beneath.
~ Salman Rushdie
The universe was a place of wonders, and only habituation, the anaesthesia of the everyday, dulled our sight.
~ Salman Rushdie
She has lost her city eyes. Who you have city eyes you cannot see the invisible people.
~ Salman Rushdie
The camera sees broken windows.
~ Salman Rushdie
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
~ Miyamoto Musashi
There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers for ever.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Kahdella tapaa voi ihminen katsella, ruumiin ja sielun silmillä. Ruumiillinen silmä voi toisinaan unohtaa, sielun silmä ei koskaan.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Când închid ochii, rev?d tot ce am v?zut. Exist? dou? feluri de priviri: privirea trupului È™i privirea sufletului. Privirea trupului poate uita uneori, dar cea a sufletului îÈ™i aminteÈ™te totdeauna.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Is it possible, he said, to be in love not with someone but with their eyes. I mean, with how eyes that aren't yours let you see where you are, who you are.
~ Ali Smith
Eddie had come to understand that what a man saw and what actually existed in the natural world often were contradictory. The human eye was not capable of true sight, for it was constrained by its own humanness, clouded by regret, and opinion, and faith. Whatever was witnessed in the real world was unknowable in real time. It was the eye of the camera that captured the world as it truly was.
~ Alice Hoffman
Eddie had come to understand that what a man saw and what actually existed in the natural world often were contradictory. The human eye was not capable of true sight, for it was constrained by its own humanness, clouded by regret, and opinion, and faith.
~ Alice Hoffman
As if only he and the blind man could see what the rest of them could not.
~ Alice McDermott
King Uthil says steel is the answer. I say his sight is short. Dust is the last answer to every question, now and always.
~ Joe Abercrombie
the wipers beating at the rain like a fool waving in a parade.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
He smiled then, and that smile was like the sunset, stretching from one end of her existence to the other, lighting her way not by sight, but with a slow kindle inside she knew would never leave her bereft for the sun's warmth.
~ Joey Hill
The hands want to see, the eyes want to caress.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light.
~ Alice Cary
I felt his eyes go over my body in my wet dress.
~ E. Lockhart
He did not know that he talked a good deal of nonsense, and that the sheer force of his intellect was weakened by the sight of Monteriano, and by the thought of dentistry within those walls.
~ E.M. Forster
Leela: "There are many implements here that would make excellent weapons. See, over there! With a few modifications, that could be an effective tank!" The Doctor: "It's a ride-on lawnmower." Leela: "It's churning blades would be a fearsome sight as we rode into battle!" The Doctor: "I'm not sure we'd be such a fearsome sight riding into battle at three miles an hour.
~ Eddie Robson
I turn away reluctant from your light, And stand irresolute, a mind undone, A silly, dazzled thing deprived of sight From having looked too long upon the sun. Then is my daily life a narrow room In which a little while, uncertainly, Surrounded by impenetrable gloom, Among familiar things grown strange to me Making my way, I pause, and feel, and hark, Till I become accustomed to the dark.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
How many are your deeds,Though hidden from sight,O Sole God beside whom there is none!You made the earth as you wished, you alone.
~ Anonymous
In brightest day, in blackest night,No evil shall escape my sight.Let those who worship evil's mightBeware my power, Green Lantern's light!
~ Anonymous