The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
Samuel Johnson

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
Jules Renard

There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.
Atom Egoyan

There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.
Claude Debussy

Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
Bashar al-Assad

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Beck

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
Graham Greene

Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.
David Korten

We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?
Pat Mastelotto

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.
Gustave Flaubert

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
Desiderius Erasmus

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.
Anthony Crosland

What you sees, is what you gets.
Jimmy Reed

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.
Kenneth Tynan

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.
Dan Totheroh

When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!
Wally Schirra

When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.
Xun Zi

When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says.
George Crook

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
King Solomon

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Pablo Picasso