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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
Soren Kierkegaard

Travel, Human, Stars

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great, Adversity, Against

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
Chinua Achebe

Words, Old, Speak

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
Marquis de Sade

Greatest, Country, Dangerous

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle

Business, Lies, Hand

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Garrison Keillor

Smart, May, Thought

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.
John Barrymore

Good, Die, Living

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.
George Harrison

Life, Change, Yourself

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Denis Waitley

Fire, Away, Dream

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Horace Mann

Happen, Give, Wait

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Trust, Keep, Word

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Honore de Balzac

Hand, Eye, Paint

Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.
Paulo Coelho

Book, Free, Sales

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
Salvador Dali

Dreams, Through, Eyes

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
Billy Connolly

Wanted, Army, Red

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Heart, Eyes, Cannot

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
Victor Hugo

Night, Eyes, Strange

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Men, Wise

I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
W. C. Fields

Keep, Snake, Bottle

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Victor Hugo

Time, Past, Present

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.
Ellen DeGeneres

Love, Work, Hard

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Problem, Solution

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
T. S. Eliot

Time, Good, Give

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Jim Bouton

Men, Football, Baseball

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
Thomas Carlyle

Able, Far, Farther

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
William Blake

Another, Sorrow, Grief

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
Thomas Carlyle

Good, Bad, Before

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.
Drew Barrymore

God, Home, Alone

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.
Dolly Parton

Wait, Inspired, Next

I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.
Dido Armstrong

Time, End, Long

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