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Quotes About Sight

Heal our inner sight, O God, that we may know the difference between good and evil. Open our eyes that we may see what is true and what is false. Restore us to wisdom that we may be well in our souls, Restore us to wisdom that we and our world may be well.[2]
~ Ruth Haley Barton
This is what the Church needs to-day, a sight of Christ as He is now. Nothing else can save its life. And nothing less can save its mission from utter impending failure.
~ S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon
La vista del entendimiento, ten por cierto, empieza a ver adecuadamente cuando la de los ojos comienza a perder su fuerza.
~ Socrates
He had only one eye. How he had lost the other one I have never known.
~ Malcolm X
Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.
~ Paul Cezanne
The house was so quiet, as if everyone had been spirited out of sight. I had a feeling of moving through time itself. I saw myself as a small, scurrying animal rushing into my future. But I was not afraid.
~ Ann Rinaldi
A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.
~ Anne Rice
What have you seen with your eyes? asked the old woman. What have you seen that you knew should not be there?
~ Anne Rice
There is such solace in the mere sight of water. It clothes us delicately in its blowing salt and scent, gossamer items that medicate the poor soul
~ Sebastian Barry
Isn't it odd, the attractiveness of type and paper and ink, bodying thoughts and descriptions? Isn't it odd how much the sight can teach us about writing? Commas really look like commas in print.
~ Shelby Foote (Author)
Life it seems a struggle between what we think and what we see
~ Dave Matthews
They say life is all about connecting, like that's a good thing. But when brain and eyes are lining up you know different.
~ Peter Abrahams
To me the ideal film - which I've never succeeded in making - would be as though the reel were behind one's eyes and you were projecting it yourself, seeing what you wish to see. This has a great deal in common with thought processes ... That's why I think the camera is an eye as well as a mind. Everything we do with the camera has physiological and mental significance.
~ John Huston
The human eye doesn't look above its own height.
~ John Marsden
An amazing sight, someone you're infatuated with trying to fish something out of a jeans pocket.
~ Elif Batuman
Kit sat in that darkness too deep for his witch sight to pierce, even had the use of it, and ran his fingers over the rugged surface of the scold's bridle Baines had left to keep him company.
~ Elizabeth Bear
If I could see her, she could probably see me. If she was looking, and maybe even if she wasn't. And I expected her to be looking.
~ Elizabeth Bear
and looked and looked our infant sight away.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
in after life the most vivid impression of his cousin which Tom Ogilvy retained was the sight of her holding up a bun and laughing with great heartiness but apparently with no meaning.
~ Elizabeth Jenkins
What's new today is how far into the mainstream many of those themes have penetrated—or to put it more precisely, how far to the right the whole political current has shifted. The New Hate is the same as the Old Hate—only now it's hiding in plain sight.
~ Arthur Goldwag
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?" wrote Marlowe, the man Shakespeare feared for many years was the better writer, the man who with those words issued a license to misery to millions of underexperienced teenagers and thousands of overeducated middle-aged jackasses.
~ Arthur Phillips
The chairs and tables around us which broadcast to us incessantly those signals which affect our sight and touch cannot in their nature be like unto the signals or to the sensations which the signals awake at the end of their journey.
~ Arthur Stanley Eddington
If in a community of the blind one man suddenly received the gift of sight, he would have much to tell which would not be at all scientific.
~ Arthur Stanley Eddington
What was there in me that could merit esteem,   Or give the Creator delight? 'Twas even so, Father, I ever must sing,   Because it seemed good, in Thy sight.
~ Arthur W. Pink