. . 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.
I've found that most people who are bound together legally would be a damn sight happier together -or apart -if they were released from the contract. A man-woman relationship is physical and emotional, not legal.
I went to Istanbul. I spoke to blind people, most of whom had lost their sight suddenly. I asked them to describe the last thing they saw.
Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight.
I try not to diet because it never really works for me, if I tell myself I can't eat something then I tend to want to eat everything in sight.
Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.
My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that the slightest turbulence causes them to boil over. That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about -- acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever possible, out of mind.
Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.
I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.
Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give a friendly welcome to newcomers. One of the disagreeable traits of our human nature seems to be to dislike on sight people who come later than the first settlers.
Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.
To larger sight, the rim of shadow is the line of light.
Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked).
Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
Never, ever lose sight of the power of one individual American. They can have an unbelievable magnifying affect just by the very fact they make up their mind to do so!
A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
When a man sought knowledge, it would not be long before it could be seen in his humbleness, his sight, upon his tongue and his hands, in his prayer, in his speech and in his disinterest (zuhd) in worldly allurements. And a man would acquire a portion of knowledge and put it into practice, and it would be better for him than the world and all it contains - if he owned it he would give it in exchange for the hereafter.
The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.
For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is construed differently. I lay it down as an axiom, that only that is criminal in the sight of God where crime is meditated.