See Quotes - page 19

I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. (Robert Burton)
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. View quote
Joan Didion
My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me. View quote
George V of the United Kingdom
I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art. View quote
P. D. James
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value most, I don't ever see them fading. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol. But I know I can act. View quote
Diora Baird
I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in. View quote
John Leguizamo
I can only draw what I see. View quote
Claude Monet
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption ... is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. View quote
Guy Debord
I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me. (Dr. Seuss)
If you're trying to turn me into something else? It's easy to see, I'm not down with that. View quote
Avril Lavigne
When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome. View quote
Jean Giraudoux
In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being. View quote
François Fénelon
That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things. View quote
Don DeLillo
The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream. View quote
Don DeLillo
The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts ... his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them. View quote
George Fox
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. View quote
Nhat Hanh
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. View quote
Nhat Hanh
What we see depends mainly on what we look for. View quote
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
I am not what you see and hear. (David Foster Wallace)
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. View quote
Charles Evans Hughes
The way we see the problem is the problem. View quote
Stephen Covey
Teach me, my God and King, In all things Thee to see, And what I do in any thing To do it as for Thee. View quote
George Herbert
Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created. View quote
Peter Shaffer