(337 quotes found)
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
C.S. Lewis
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
Christopher Marlowe
“The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see”
Julius Caesar
“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, For I never saw true beauty till this night”
William Shakespeare
“You lose sight of things... and when you travel, everything balances out.”
Daranna Gidel
“What is required is sight and insight; then you might add one more -- excite.”
Robert Frost
“How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill done!”
“Nothing sharpens sight like envy”
Thomas Fuller
“The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.”
Charles de Lint
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