Sight Quotes - Page 13

• People said that he was very nice, but I confess that his utter grotesqueness made me uneasy; perhaps in the same way that the sight of monkeys eating their own excrement turns some people’s stomachs. They might not mind so much if monkeys did not- so grotesquely- resemble human beings.

  James A. Baldwin

  Agradable, Gente, Mente

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• As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Depression, Appearance, Embalming

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.76, Booklassic

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• I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Heart, Eye, Pupils

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• El proceso de enamoramiento a primera vista es tan definitivo como rápido en un caso así, pero el crecimiento de la verdadera amistad puede ser un asunto para toda la vida.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Falling In Love, Growth, Finals

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.3, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like a bird set free, Up from the eastern sea Soars the delightful day. To-day I shall be strong, No more shall yield to wrong, Shall squander life no more; Days lost, I know not how, I shall retrieve them now; Now I shall keep the vow I never kept before. Ensanguining the skies How heavily it dies Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground Falls the remorseful day.

  A. E. Housman

  Beautiful, Strong, Morning

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. 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 a human bodies, and so I think it has chosen to interpret the sight in a more comforting manner. - Here we are at the rubber mask factory. Look at the nice men and woman working on the masks.

  Mary Roach

  Nice, Halloween, Men

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• Don't be led away by those howls about realism. Remember-pine woods are just as real as pigsties and a darn sight pleasanter to be in.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Real, Woods, Remember

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more”, p.2325, e-artnow

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• Libros, libros, libros en todos sus aspectos, en su forma y su espíritu, en su ser físico y en lo que la lectura libera de sus páginas jeroglíficas, en su vista y su olor, en su tacto y su sensación para la mano que busca, y en la música intelectual que cantan al cerebro reflexivo y al corazón amante, los libros son para mí el mejor de todos los símbolos, la más real de todas las realidades.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Libro, Lectura, Corazón

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). "Los libros son básicos: el Lawrence Clark Powell esencial", Univ of Arizona Pr

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• Ver a un adolescente huraño es habitual vayas donde vayas. Los adolescentes desean cosas con tanta fuerza que nunca se ve que las consigan y, para colmo de males, la gente se burla de tus sentimientos porque eres adolescente. Dicen que el tiempo reparará un corazón roto, y a menudo tienen razón. Pero no en lo que respecta a mis sentimientos por Hardy.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Adolescente, Corazón, Luz

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). "Sugar Daddy: A Novel", p.56, St. Martin's Press

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• It is true that the path of human destiny cannot but appal him who surveys a section of it. But he will do well to keep his small personal commentarie to himself, as one does at the sight of the sea or of majestic mountains, unless he knows himself to be called and gifted to give them expression in artistic or prophetic form. In most other cases, the voluminous talk about intuition does nothing but conceal a lack of perspective toward the object, which merits the same judgement as a similar lack of perspective toward men.

  Max Weber

  Destiny, Men, Expression

  Max Weber (1930). “The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism”

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• ...¿no reside el poder embrujador de todos los estudios en que nos abren continuamente horizontes nuevos, insospechados, aún no comprendidos, que nos incitan a avanzar más y más en la penetración de lo que a primera vista sólo aparece en vagos contornos?

  Peter Kropotkin

  Lying, Horizon, Firsts

  Peter Kropotkin (2014). "Memorias de un revolucionario", p.87, Courier Corporation.

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• Por qué lucho para vivir, Si sólo vivo para luchar Por qué intento ver. Cuando no hay nada a la vista ¿Por qué estoy tratando de dar, Cuando nadie me da una oportunidad ¿Por qué estoy muriendo para vivir, Si sólo estoy viviendo para morir?

  Tupac Shakur

  Fighting, Thug, Giving

  Canción: Runnin'

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• True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.

  Alexander Pope

  Light, Giving, Mind

  Alexander Pope (2012). “Essay on Man and Other Poems”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Limitations gone: Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenity Make something for which There's no end in sight.

  Saigyō

  Moon, Serenity, Mind

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• I gazed around the room and my eyes stopped dead on a little boy standing in the corner. This was a particularly eerie doll. Life-sized and blond-haired and blue-eyed. I saw a little Nazi boy, pockets probably stuffed with scissors and retractable blades. My grandfather on my mother's side was rumored to be half Jewish, which practically makes me Jerry Seinfeld's brother, and thus wary of blond German boys with their hands out of sight.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mother, Brother, Eye

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Possible Side Effects”, p.69, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the reasonable period be shorter than the trial is likely to last. It need not be much shorter; in attacks on patience, chastity, and fortitude, the fun is to make the man yield just when (had he but known it) relief was almost in sight.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fun, Men, Yield

  C. S. Lewis (1995). "Las cartas de Screwtape", Bantam Classics

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• As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.

  Dante Alighieri

  Squares, Circles, Principles

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “Paradiso”, p.285, Bantam Classics

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• my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp fatal tools in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of chrome and ex -ecute strides of cobalt nevertheless i feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am becoming something a little different, in fact myself hereupon helpless i utter lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings

  e. e. cummings

  Taste And Smell, Agony, Sensual

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• La mayoría de las personas disfrutan viendo su propia letra como disfrutan oliendo sus propios pedos.

  W. H. Auden

  Smell, People, Handwriting

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• If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

  Gregory Maguire

  Eye, Magic, Skins

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• People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight—at least as the normally experienced them.

  Ann Brashares

  Makeup, Hair, Voice

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• This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Moving, Men, Garden

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.393, Book House

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• Es fácil perder de vista lo que uno quiere cuando cree que lo quiere todo.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Thinking, Want, Easy

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “Kissing the Beehive”, p.174, Open Road Media

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• Allí, en el puerto empañado de vapor y humo de la ciudad, se encuentra el espectáculo más extraordinario de todos: una gran dama vestida de cobre con una antorcha en una mano y un libro en la otra. No es un estadista, ni un dios, ni un héroe de guerra quien nos da la bienvenida a este nuevo mundo. No es más que una mujer corriente que ilumina el camino, una dama que nos ofrece la libertad de perseguir nuestros sueños si tenemos el valor de empezar.

  Libba Bray

  Dream, War, Book

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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• ..this indiscriminate love feels entirely serious to her, as if everything in the world is part of a vast, inscrutable intention and everything in the world has its own secret name, a name that cannot be conveyed in language but is simply the sight and feel of the thing itself.

  Michael Cunningham

  Names, Secret, World

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.12, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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