Nearsighted People Quotes & Sayings

It's easier to remember your lies if they're close to the truth, — Jennifer Echols

Santa Claus has nothing to do with it," the latke said. "Christmas and Hanukah are completely different things."
"But different things can often blend together," said the pine tree. "Let me tell you a funny story about pagan rituals. — Lemony Snicket

A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe. — Robert Casey

My way of looking at the world is so nearsighted. If no one said anything, I'd probably just live like I do now year in and year out, and feel complacent about everything around me. Plus, I don't see that many people. Something is definitely missing -- I don't know what, maybe compassion for people who are suffering, a sense of adventure, interest in other people... — Banana Yoshimoto

Some people are farsighted and some people are nearsighted. In the mind and in the heart. A farsighted person forgets your magic the closer that you get to them; the nearsighted person sees your magic more and more, the closer and closer that you become to them. You've got to find the nearsighted people. That's just a rule in life. And you've got to be one, too. — C. JoyBell C.

When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion. — Philip K. Dick

We are never more like Jesus than when we are serving Him or others. There is no higher calling than to be a servant. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Progress isn't always good. There's a reason why 'breakneck speed' is described as such. — Fennel Hudson

Tinsley hated the thought of people greeting her with "Where's Julian?" It was like once you were a couple, you ceased to exist as an individual. It made her a little sick to her stomach. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

There are lots of things in the folklore, like they can only be killed by a silver bullet, that don't realistically work, if you're trying to say they have existed for hundreds of years, unknown. — Kelley Armstrong

I just have to relax before each shot, and let it happen knowing that I've done it a million times before. — Jennifer Wyatt

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness. — Martin Luther King Jr.

If you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing — Kahlil Gibran

This is what makes science so hard, and ultimately so fun. Think of the limits of what we know as a great suite of rooms inhabited by vast numbers of incredibly busy, incredibly messy, nearsighted people, all of whom are eccentric recluses. — Alexei Panshin

I have an iron lung, and the dog keeps me from getting too close to magnets.
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I have SARS. He's tallying the people I infect.
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I'm nearsighted. He helps me read the road signs.
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I'm a recovering alcoholic. The dog gets between me and a beer.
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I have an irregular heartbeat and he's CPR certified.
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Color-blind. He tells me when the traffic lights change.
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He translates for my Spanish-speaking clients.
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He's a chick magnet.
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I'm a lawyer. He chases ambulances for me. — Jodi Picoult

There is a time for scientists and movie stars and those who have flown the atlantic to restrain their opinions lest they be taken more seriously than they should be. — Edward Teller

And yet, I have this sense that this place is holier than back home. Gluttonous, fat, oversexed, overconsuming, materialist home, where we're too lazy to see our own faults. At least here, Rodriguez has the decency to worry about hell. — Phil Klay