#sight

The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake. ↗

— Gerry Cooney

#bad press #because #been #came #chose

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#change #damn #damn thing #did #got

Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted. ↗

— David Fincher

#great #hollywood #i #shortsighted #stupid

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~ variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer ↗

— Reinhold Neibuhr

#change

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings. ↗

— Steven Johnson

#innovation #insightful #nature

Zach,” I said as I lay there “Where did you go? When you were looking for me?” I shifted in his arms, looked into his eyes. “Crazy.” His voice was a whisper against my skin. “I went crazy. ↗

— Ally Carter

#cammie #gallagher-girls #out-of-sight #out-of-time #zach

The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#eagle #eagles #eyesight #literature #literature-quotes

Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#inspirational-attitude #attitude

Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#awaits #dominate #dream #existence #human

When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#anxiety #await #begins #curiosity #entrance