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Quotes About Sight

Pain can give you sight or make you blind.
~ Francesca Lia Block
Nothing later equalled that first distant glimpse
~ Frank Kuppner
Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.
~ Fred Allen
Do you wish," Wit asked, "that you could go back to not being able to see?" "No," she whispered. "Then live. And let your failures be part of you.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I couldn't help grinning at the sight of her. Megan, in turn, raised a nine-millimeter square at my chest. Well, that was familiar, at least.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.
~ Henry David Thoreau
the very pattering of the drops, and in every sound and sight around my house, an infinite and unaccountable friendliness all at once like an atmosphere sustaining me, as made the fancied advantages of human neighborhood insignificant, and I have never thought of them since.
~ Henry David Thoreau
He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.
~ Henry James
There were exactly states of the air, conditions of sound and of stillness, unspeakable impressions of the KIND of ministering moment, that brought back to me, long enough to catch it, the feeling of the medium in which, that June evening out of doors, I had had my first sight of Quint, and in which, too, at those other instants, I had, after seeing him through the window, looked for him in vain in the circle of shrubbery.
~ Henry James
All my life had taken refuge in my eyes, which the procession of events appeared to have committed itself to keep astare
~ Henry James
I don't know which affected me more deeply—the story of the lemon groves just opposite us or the sight of Poros itself when suddenly I realized that we were sailing through the streets. If there is one dream which I like above all others it is that of sailing on land.
~ Henry Miller
at Tiryns I stood in the shadow of the Cyclopean man and felt the blaze of that inner eye which has now become a sickly gland;
~ Henry Miller
I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight." Luke 10:21
~ Henry T. Blackaby
Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.
~ Heraclitus
Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.—Why then do you try to "enlarge" your mind? Subtilize it.
~ Herman Melville
We always think, 'Well, for a person who's blind, it must be an amazing, joyful miracle if by some chance their sight is restored to them.' Now, this may be true for blind people who lost their vision at a later age. It's rarely true for people who were born blind or who go blind at a very young age.
~ Rosemary Mahoney
While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarged and enhanced the quality and length of human life, we must not lose sight as to what we are trying to accomplish.
~ Nathan Deal
Eyes And Heart Are Too Compatible To Each Other. Through Our Eyes, We Capture Moments And Through Our Heart We Relive Those Moments....
~ Muhammad Imran Hasan
This is true, at the least, that no veil of beauty hides the evils from our sight.
~ Jane Smiley, The Greenlanders
I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.
~ Moshe Dayan
In his anguish, he prayed to God to restore his sight, and swore that if he was made able to see again he would only work with His creation and not with man's creation, for the rest of his life. After a few days his sight was restored and he kept his promise. He became a modern "wanderer", walking across America and inspiring a whole movement dedicated to the preservation of natural wilderness. As he himself said of these travels: "Going out, I discovered that I was really going in.
~ Stephen Hirtenstein
The Emrys! The Emrys is here!' Merlin shook his head in astonishment. 'Has it come to this?' he wondered. 'Even small children know me by sight.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
Belief is the sense organ of faith, as your eyes are the sense organ of sight. With sight you see the world, with faith you see God. Belief has the power to shape reality.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
I haven't experienced anything paranormal yet, but I did see what I think was a meteor light up the sky in a flash of red for a few seconds. That was really cool.
~ Ryan Lee