Top 334 Sights Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
Set your sights on a place higher than your eyes can see.
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in
the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman
dancing.
And pomp, and feast, and revelry,
With mask, and antique pageantry,
Such sights as youthful poets dream
On summer eves by haunted stream.
The pace of events is moving so fast that unless we can find some way to keep our sights on tomorrow, we cannot expect to be in touch with today.
They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.
I went off to the University of California, Santa Barbara, on a boatload of loans, sights set on becoming a doctor or a lawyer.
When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university.
Those who purchase meat, fur, and leather have no right to be shielded from the sights and sounds of the slaughterhouses from which these products were produced.
When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.
I like being in new places and seeing new sights.
Everyone makes sexy sounds; relatively few, sexy sights.
You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest.
The battlefield is first and foremost horrible stenches, not sights, not sounds, but stenches. They don't travel well into literature.
She was the kind of gal that if she set her sights on a man, he'd be running in the opposite direction real quick.
This great American institution [Boy Scouts of America] has come under attack from homosexual activists-who may well set their sights on your church next.
In the U.S., these sights are no longer a surprise to me. I see army generals, captains of industry, and politicians of all colours and creeds on American television.
The sights of infinity can be too strong. They can scorch the soul. It's best to take infinity on a little at a time.
An out-and-out fast bowler is one of the great sights in cricket.
I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.
There is something so different in Venice from any other place in the world, that you leave at once all accustomed habits and everyday sights to enter an enchanted garden.
One of my favorite sights is to look across a room packed with people with their Bibles in their laps, studying who God is and what God has said- after midnight.
Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.
Everyone knows: if Russia threatens Ukraine and also has its sights on other states, this concerns the global security of Europe.
I have been very lucky: my writing has taken me across the world, and I have seen some extraordinary sites and sights.
And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.
Real teams are much more likely to flourish if leaders aim their sights on performance results that balance the needs of customers, employees, and shareholders.
I was 17, certainly by the time I was 19, I knew that show business was where I was going to end up, and I had my sights on being a director.
When I make the effort to pay attention to the sights, sounds and sensations around me, I’m encouraging myself to live in the present moment.
And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's sad but hilarious.
I want to experience as many different tastes, sights, emotions, conflicts, and cultures as possible, so that I can expand the canvas of my memory and enrich my comedy.
Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed.
Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.
I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.
Some fearful sights there be that creep
By night - I mean that harass sleep;
But tenfold more alarming seem these when
They brave the day, to breathe the air like men.
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere
Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun. Oh, but mama, that's where the fun is.
A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.
Other tourists may remember London for its spectacular sights and history, but I remember it for Islam.
Every time I travel for work, I always think that maybe they'll be time to take in some of the local sights. But there never is.
Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.
Become enraptured by the sights and sounds in intrigue of nature and beauty, come along with me and take it all in. Come here my love.
My aim over the next few months is that I have a lot of points to defend in Miami and Hamburg, after that I can set my sights on No. 1.
Love, indeed, lends a precious seeing to the eye, and hearing to the ear: all sights and sounds are glorified by the light of its presence.
It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.
Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we're training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights.
There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,
Exhilirate the spirit, and restore
The tone of languid nature.
If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
The sights I have just seen [at Buchenwald] are so unbelievable that I don't think I'll believe them myself until I've seen the photographs.
If we are to go only halfway or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty... it would be better to not go at all.
Hence, loathèd Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy.
I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have three names. So I turned my sights elsewhere . . . to acting.
We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go
No, I was never one of those positive people who believes he can have whatever he sets his sights on. I just kept working at it.
A quick trip to Paris would be nice. It's a beautiful city, and I've visited several times. I like the buzz, the sights and restaurants.
You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.
I want to have a catalogue or a share in a company. I'm trying to take my family's name from lower-middle class to aristocracy. I have my sights set high.
You've got to set your sights high and expect to be scrutinised. When you play for a big club like Celtic, you're always going to come under pressure. That's to be expected.
