Seen Quotes

"I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Pure by impure is not seen."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. "
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
-Plato

"My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably."
-George Bernard Shaw

"I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."
-Thomas Jefferson

"It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world."
-Oscar Wilde

"...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen."
-Robert Bresson

"The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy."
-Persian Proverb

"True is it that we have seen better days."
-William Shakespeare

"O, woe is me,To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!"
-William Shakespeare

"What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness."
-M. C. Escher

"Without doubt one always looks more carefully at what one believes must be seen by many than at what one does only for oneself, and often the things that have seemed to me to be true when I began to concieve them have appeared false to me when I wanted to put them on paper."
-Rene Descartes

"Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?"
-Saint Teresa Of Avila

"Not only does God play dice with the Universe - he sometimes casts them where they can't be seen."
-Stephen Hawking

"Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen."
-Stephen Hawking

"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."
-Michel de Montaigne

"We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed."
-Niccolo Machiavelli

"I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it."
-Confucius

"Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue."
-Confucius

"A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior."
-Charles Garfield

"When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love."
-J. K. Rowling

"The only time some fellows are ever seen with their wives is after they've been indicted."
-Kin Hubbard

"I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God."
-Thomas A. Edison

"Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative."
-Steve Prefontaine

"I believe in God like I believe in the sun, not because I can see it, but because of it all things are seen."
-C. S. Lewis

"Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public."
-Edgar Watson Howe