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Quotes About Sight

Time no longer mattered. He knew he would have plenty of it at his disposal. The sight of the star filled him with indescribable longing.
~ J. Valor, Salome
The one-horned rhinoceros, or "rhino," washes in a forest stream. Rhinos are not usually dangerous. But because they do not see well, they sometimes charge at things by mistake. A loud noise will usually stop them.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
We have to bring back his eye by the
~ Mary Pope Osborne
They also look like human heads, but my brain has no precedent for human heads on tables or in roasting pans or anywhere other than on top of human bodies, and so I think it has chosen to interpret the sight in a more comforting manner.
~ Mary Roach
Humans are better equipped for sight than for smell. We process visual input ten times faster than olfactory.
~ Mary Roach
What's the use of having eyes if we can't see the world we pass through?
~ Matthew Pearl
He was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the door of a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not care to feel that.
~ Ayn Rand
No, justice has not ceased to exist. How could it? It is possible for men to abandon their sight of it, and then it is justice that destroys them. But it is not possible for justice to go out of existence, because one is an attribute of the other, because justice is the act of acknowledging that which exists.
~ Ayn Rand
She wondered at the joyous, proud comfort to be found in a sense of the finite, in the knowledge that the field of one's concern lay within the realm of one's sight.
~ Ayn Rand
justice has not ceased to exist. How could it? It is possible for men to abandon their sight of it, and then it is justice that destroys them. But it is not possible for justice to go out of existence, because one is an attribute of the other, because justice is the act of acknowledging that which exists. . .
~ Ayn Rand
The relief was not in the surrender of responsibility, but in the sight of a man able to assume it.
~ Ayn Rand
He was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went.His face was closed like the door of a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable
~ Ayn Rand
it was the security of being first, with full sight and full knowledge of one's course—not the blind sense of being pulled into the unknown by some unknown power ahead. It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust, but to know.
~ Ayn Rand
He was quiet, holding that string and kite with everything he had. The way he looked. Eyes raised up, body tethered by one long thread to the big stormy sky, the whole of him up there with his words, talking to whoever was listening. I've not seen a sight to match it. No bones of his had ever been shoved in a feed bag. The man was a giant.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Eyes can pierce a skull.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Eyes raised up, body tethered by one long thread to the big stormy sky, the whole of him up there with his words, talking to whoever was listening. I've not seen a sight to match it. No bones of his had ever been shoved in a feed bag. The man was a giant.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The way he looked. Eyes raised up, body tethered by one long thread to the big stormy sky, the whole of him up there with his words, talking to whoever was listening. I've not seen a sight to match it. No bones of his had ever been shoved in a feed bag. The man was a giant.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The battle-fire had dropped over him, burning him everywhere with its righteous heat, sizzling his sight, frying his synapses and roasting his heart in its holy glow.
~ Stephen King
Dickens had, with all his genius, the narrow short sight of his day and class, sentimental tears for poverty but no vision to remove it except by inviting everybody to be as noble a fellow as himself. War
~ Stephen Leacock
Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
~ Ralph Ellison
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.
~ Maya Angelou
Color is something we see with our eyes, but love is something we see with our heart.
~ Joan Walsh Anglund
The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not
~ Warren W. Wiersbe
I'll love you when my eyes are open, I'll love you when my eyes are gone.
~ Iggy Pop