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I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems. — Arnold Adoff

We need to stop shuffling service parts randomly and set our sights on a goal, something we are moving toward in every service element. — James MacDonald

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. — Dean Rusk

There are only perches within society, and we can elevate our sights by considering how things might look from those of others. — Yuval Levin

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. — Boris Beizer

Set your sights so high that even failure has in it an echo of glory. — Anonymous

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

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

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

I had been someplace none of my friends or family would ever go, smelled the smells and seen the sights. — Drew Nellins Smith

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

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

sees the Sights, under Perplexing Difficulties. The native borned Gothamite mite have notissed, a short time since, a venerable lookin' ex-Statesman, — Various

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

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. — Jude Morgan

Where are you flying off to?' inquired Viola, rather sulkily; few sights are more annoying when we feel lazy than that of somebody bounding upstairs. — Stella Gibbons

Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun. Oh, but mama, that's where the fun is. — Bruce Springsteen

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. — Brian Henson

It is the month of June,
The month of leaves and roses,
When pleasant sights salute the eyes
And pleasant scents the noses. — Nathaniel Parker Willis

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

Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed. — Robert Gottlieb

My philosophy now is this: Everything will be all right in the end. If it's not okay, the end is nowhere in sights — Victoria Haugnes

There are sunsets above other oceans, Ghuda. Mighty sights and great wonders to behold. — Raymond E. Feist

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

And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die. — Matthew Arnold

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 ... — Margaret Bourke-White

There are sights too beautiful to swallow. They stay on the rim of the eye; it cannot contain them. — Olivia Laing

Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks. — Denis Waitley

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. — Johanna Lindsey

For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere — John Donne

Join the Rienish navy. See unusual sights. Never sleep with the lights out again. — Martha Wells

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

Spirituality is about developing the inner sights by opening the third eye and the eyes of the heart. — Amit Ray

And pomp, and feast, and revelry,
With mask, and antique pageantry,
Such sights as youthful poets dream
On summer eves by haunted stream. — John Milton

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,
Exhilirate the spirit, and restore
The tone of languid nature. — William Cowper

The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female. — Benjamin Franklin

Fire only at close range, and only when your opponent is properly in your sights. — Oswald Boelcke

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. — Alan Bennett

They will not be swayed, they have power in their sights and are blinded by its alluring glister. — A.H. Septimius

As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey. — Martha Beck

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

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

Smells are surer than sounds and sights to make the heartstrings crack. — Rudyard Kipling

There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is. — Roger Ebert

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

The most wretched of sights, the just-crushed spirit. — Chang-rae Lee

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. — Ted Koppel

There are few sights sadder than a ruined book. — Lemony Snicket

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

And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies. — Charles Kuralt

We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars. — George C. Marshall

That was how the world worked, wasn't it? You set your sights on something, and life came along with a sucker punch. — Patrick Ness

With the taste of rum in my mouth and the sting of remembrance in my heart, I set my sights on the man who killed my family. — Kelsey Sutton

Everyone makes sexy sounds; relatively few, sexy sights. — Mason Cooley

Satan has his sights on the United States of America! — Rick Santorum

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. — Van Morrison

Then to the dance, and make the sober moon ... witness of joys that shun the sights of noon. — William Cowper

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

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

Aim for a star, and keep your sights high! With a heart full of faith within, your feet on the ground and your eyes in the sky. — Helen Lowrie Marshall

The Rough Guide to Nepal; The Great Sights of Canada; America by Car; Fodor's Guide to the Bahamas; Let's go Bhutan. — John Green

To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least put them in proper focus. — Ezra Taft Benson

I remember the sights and sounds and smells of home because the memory of home is the thing that never leaves us. — Wyatt Cooper

But such niggling distractions on the periphery matter little once you've set your sights so squarely on what you want most. By — Dan Fesperman

Being a doctor, you are not supposed to give vent to any signs of revulsion on encountering the most noxious of odours or the most gruesome of sights. — Anurag Shourie

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child. — Marie Curie

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

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

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 — Mark Twain

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

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. — Deepak Chopra

I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck. — Arthur Golden

An American soldier, Saddam in his sights, has a picture of a naked, buxom woman on his dashboard, an obvious affront to Muslim sensibilities. — Margo Kingston

The last time she was up here, she had been ... staring up at the sky and dreaming of stars. Now, she looked down and plotted flames. — Kiersten White

Not by human dwellings
not in crowded cities alone, are the sights and sounds of life. The wildest places of the earth are full of them. — Solomon Northup

When he has cleansed away the most mysterious sights (of his imagination), he can become without a flaw. — Lao-Tzu

One will never find in the waterfall of sights anything else than the Illusion of Life, which falls in torrents on the granite rocks of the souls. — Sorin Cerin

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

I have such sights to show you. Soon, you will have answers to questions you have never even dared to ask. — Clive Barker

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. — George Miller

You've been busy matchmaking everyone in this city ... and beyond." Gerri winked. "Careful, before I set my sights on you. — Milly Taiden

Where you have been isn't half as important as where you are headed. Keep your sights and focus on the future. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

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

For what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear? — Ouida

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

Tesla already has its sights set on producing a large-volume electric vehicle in three years or so. — Anonymous

I like being in new places and seeing new sights. — Tom Welling

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. — Arthur Frederick Saunders

though there was something so fascinating and absorbing to my engaged mind, that I frequently long to reproduce its unearthly music and sights. — R.B. Stratton

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. — Honore De Balzac

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. — John F. Kennedy

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

Set your sights on a place higher than your eyes can see. — Rumi

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. — Alyssa Milano

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. — William Rainey Harper

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make. — James M. Barrie

I have been very lucky: my writing has taken me across the world, and I have seen some extraordinary sites and sights. — Michael Scott

I swear, Sophie, I think there's something wrong with me. Every man I meet is intolerable. Perhaps I should set my sights lower[ ... ] — Mary Ann Shaffer

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

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. — Roger Federer