Top 334 Sights Quotes & Sayings

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

What a treasure of awesome sights and attractions our country has.

The entrances I make now, when we kick in the door of a high-risk warrant, eighty percent of the homes we're kicking into, it's dark in there for some reason. That's just the way the bad guys are doing it now. So now all of my sights are night sights; I've also put special light rails on the bottom of all of them so I can put a special light on them that's combination white light/laser.

I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.

What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!

For more than 50 years, men and women around the world have reported sights in the sky that are strange to their experience and understanding. Inasmuch as many of these sights appeared to be solid objects having impressive performance, they have become known as Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) or, colloquially, flying saucers. Their positive identification is one of the major public scientific challenges of the era, with a significant number of these sights so far defying all reasonable efforts at classification.

The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them.

No, whoever was out there didn't want to take her in. But his sights were on her, gun sights, steady. Clear. She stared into them, and with a mocking smile, mouthed the words, I dare you!" (Cassie Sinclair) *** He smiled at the challenge. One day, she just might dare him too far, but he doubted it would be a bullet he'd penetrate her with. (Unknown Breed)

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams!

I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.

This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country - the United States of America. If you were Satan, who would you attack in this day and age?

I want to go up there so bad, I've had my sights set since 1962.

Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

I was working in a day job in marketing but I had my sights on doing an open-mic night.

Satan has his sights on the United States of America.

One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight.

Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.

Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.

If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights of the open world--on a final day on earth, I think I would choose these: the clear, ethereal song of a white-throated sparrow singing at dawn; the smell of pine trees in the heat of the noon; the lonely calling of Canada geese; the sight of a dragon-fly glinting in the sunshine; the voice of a hermit thrush far in a darkening woods at evening; and--most spiritual and moving of sights--the white cathedral of a cumulus cloud floating serenely in the blue of the sky.

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus.

Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit.

Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.

If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't let go of your material even after you have done the best that you can with it, you are setting your sights too high.

There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.

Fire short bursts of 1 to 2 seconds and only when your sights are definitely 'ON.'

There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.

The sights you can find here in Paris are second to none.

If you speed up your trip, you'll miss a lot of interesting sights and also wear yourself to a frazzle.

Always, as you travel, assimilate the sounds and sights of the world.

Los Angeles is great for partying and also for its sights and sounds.

The mysteries that cups of flowers infold And all the gorgeous sights which fairies do behold.

That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.

I never set my sights on being an actor or comedian or presenter.

I was looking at the sights, thinking, 'I used to play there a couple of years back, and now I'm on the coach with the England team.'

I loved being at sea: the sights, the sounds, the food, the sunshine, the people, and the work.

Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history

Don't stop setting your sights high because of some young guy.

A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Love is a pathway of many colors and dead ends. But when the right path is chosen, the sights are amazing.

Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only. The intellectof man, on the contrary, energises as well as his eye or ear, and perceives in sights or sounds something beyond them. It seizes and unites what the senses present to it; it grasps and forms what need not be seen or heard except in detail. It discerns in lines and colors, or in tones, what is beautiful and what is not. It gives them a meaning, and invests them with an idea.

The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.

Set your sights not just on the next few weeks ... set your sights on the years ahead - because our vision will look that far ahead.

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

There's nothing like experiencing the sights and sounds of a live robot combat event.

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

Although I have my sights set globally, I'm from Canada.

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack.

Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain.

I had my sights set on Tony Ferguson for a long time.

I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.

The brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life, or it will remain blind to those sights forever.

In those same decades, most UFO sightings were made in the daytime and frequently at close range, when shapes and surface features could be distinguished, thus making positive identification of normal sights easier and the descriptions of unusual sights more detailed. When all normal explanations had been eliminated, the witnesses could concentrate on those aspects of the experience which were most abnormal.

Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is the little lost pup with his tail tucked in.

Anytime I come to any organization, I have my sights on the belt.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.