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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
The mysteries that cups of flowers infold
And all the gorgeous sights which fairies do behold. — William Wordsworth
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I have been very lucky: my writing has taken me across the world, and I have seen some extraordinary sites and sights.
— Michael Scott