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Quote:When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.[Victor Hugo]

Quote:Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white -- and we're all precious in God's sight.[Jesse Jackson]

Quote:It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.[C.S. Lewis]

Quote:Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?[George Bernard Shaw]

Quote:Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.[Andr Gide]

Quote:A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.[Oliver Wendell Holmes]

Quote:We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority,let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.[William F. Buckley]

Quote:There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.[Mark Twain]

Quote:Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.[Amy Bloom]

Quote:When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'[Sydney Harris]

Quote:During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight. [George Bernard Shaw]

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



Definitions of: sigh

Definition: To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, or the like.

Definition: Hence, to lament; to grieve.

Definition: To make a sound like sighing.

Definition: A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing.

Definition: Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lan&unr_;ent.

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