#sight

All good Literature rests primarily on insight. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#insight #literature #primarily #rests

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

#bad #being #bird #cannot #decent

When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#always #been #decisions #haven #hindsight

Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#bucket #climb #crab #crabs #cure

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#insight #luxury #point #point of view #substituted

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#arts #becomes #collective #direction #increasingly

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#concepts #glass #magnifying #more #nothing

Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game. ↗

— Alyssa Milano

#escape #game #i #park #place

If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#been #constantly #fallen #graves #green

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#about #being #insightful #long #nothing