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Sunday, September 29th, 2024
the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Quotations regarding 'Sight'

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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!
Michael McKean, American Actor (1947-  )
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Herman Melville, American Novelist (1819-1891)
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.
Moses Mendelssohn, German Philosopher (1729-1786)
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.
Nelson A. Miles, American Soldier (1839-1925)
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
Lewis Mumford, American Sociologist (1895-1990)
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.
Simon Newcomb, Canadian Mathematician (1835-1909)
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
Ovid, Poet
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.
Walter Pater, English Critic (1839-1894)
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.
Ivan Pavlov, Russian Psychologist (1849-1936)
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.
Lester B. Pearson, Canadian Politician (1897-1972)
We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.
Richard Perle, American Public Servant (1941-  )
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.
Thomas Perry, German Musician (1963-  )
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.
William Lyon Phelps, American Educator (1865-1943)
The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman Poet
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope, English Poet (1688-1744)
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope, English Poet (1688-1744)
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.
Anthony Powell, British Novelist (1905-2000)
If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
J. Enoch Powell, British Statesman
No sight that human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered thick with stars.
Llewelyn Powys, -
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.
Orson Pratt, American Theologian (1811-1881)
 
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