#sight

How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#despair #ignorance #insight #loneliness #love

And, Kar, love is not a commandment, it is a need, as real as eating. ↗

— David Clement-Davies

#larka #love #philosophy #sight #love

As he satin the tree he looked down at the girl in the floral dress and felt his heart miss a beat. ↗

— Isabella Kruger

#love-at-first-sight #love

Eric Seven does not believe in love at first sight. He corrects himself. Even in that moment, the moment that it happens, he fees his journalist’s brain make a correction, rubbing out a long-held belief, writing a new one in its place. He did not believe in love at first sight. He thinks he might do so now. ↗

— Marcus Sedgwick

#love

Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#around #astronomers #clouds #disappointed #disappointment

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#credit #doing #foresight #give #give me

It was strange what Chris was feeling within, but he didn’t mind for he was loving her. ↗

— Moffat Machingura

#love #love-at-first-sight #love-is #love-is-beautiful #love-is-blind

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#criminal-justice #detectives #evidence #facts #insight

It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#life

A stumble may prevent a fall. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#insight #learning #life #patience #attitude