Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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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: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: sightDefinition: The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.Definition: The power of seeing; the faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes. Definition: The state of admitting unobstructed vision; visibility; open view; region which the eye at one time surveys; space through which the power of vision extends; as, an object within sight. Definition: A spectacle; a view; a show; something worth seeing. Definition: The instrument of seeing; the eye. Definition: Inspection; examination; as, a letter intended for the sight of only one person. Definition: Mental view; opinion; judgment; as, in their sight it was harmless. Definition: A small aperture or optical device through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained; -- used on surveying instruments; as, the sight of a quadrant. Definition: An optical device or small piece of metal, fixed or movable, on the breech, muzzle, center, or trunnion of a gun, or on the breech and the muzzle of a rifle, pistol, etc., by means of which the eye is guided in aiming. A telescope mounted on a weapon, such as a rifle, and used for accurate aiming at distant targets is called a telescopic sight. Definition: In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame or the like, the open space, the opening. Definition: A great number, quantity, or sum; as, a sight of money. Definition: To take aim by a sight. |
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