Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.
Jonathan Swift
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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
JONATHON SWIFT Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
JONATHAN SWIFT Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little cons...
JONATHAN SWIFT Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.
W.B. YEATS My wisdom was visual and as swift as vision.
WILLIAM SAROYAN Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. -Jonath...
JONATHAN SWIFT Vision is not seeing things as they are, but as they will be.
UNKNOWN O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Behold, on wrong
Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") Have a vision. It is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve...
SHIV KHERA Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-c...
BARBARA JANUSZKIEWICZ The most brilliant satire of all time was 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift. You'll ...
P. J. O'ROURKE Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN It's what Jonathan Swift suggested two and a half centuries ago: making two blades of grass grow whe...
MARTIN BELL Sight is seeing what's there, vision is seeing what's possible
RETIN OBASOHAN Mike Judge is my Jonathan Swift, and I say that because I don't know any other satirists. But th...
T. J. MILLER Seeing within changes one's outer vision.
JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE What is art but a way of seeing?
SAUL BELLOW The power itself comes from the fact that you can do something and people can’t see you do it and ...
TRENTON LEE STEWART It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize,
And to be swift is less than to be wise.
'Tis ...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
SUN TZU To call the population of strangers in the midst of which we live "society" is such a usurpation tha...
THE INVISIBLE COMMITTEE We have been expropriated from our own language by television, from our songs by reality TV contests...
THE INVISIBLE COMMITTEE The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put...
THE INVISIBLE COMMITTEE The 2005 nickel designs follow Thomas Jefferson's vision to explore the great West, ... small pieces...
HENRIETTA HOLSMAN Vision without action is Hallucination.
DON CLIFTON If we live in a glass bubble then it is always easier for the glass to shatter, it is different if t...
GARY F EVANS... What is art but a way of seeing?
THOMAS BERGER What is art but a way of seeing?.
THOMAS BERGER Invisible things are the only realities.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Only the invisible things are eternal.
SUNDAY ADELAJA The invisible things are the value system.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
GEORGE V. HIGGINS The invisible things are more real and powerful, our faith should be based on the invisible values.
SUNDAY ADELAJA One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather ...
BRIAN ENO Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
GEORGE V. HIGGINS Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
GEORGE V. HIGGINS Thought; the dwelling home of the invisible thing that commands the visible things
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterl...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new sh...
KAHLIL GIBRAN They are not sacrificing their artistic vision. They are selling their art and people are buying it.
ANDREW BRENITS Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of...
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE What is still invisible to everything and everyone else, a man of wisdom is already seeing it and al...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Just because it stop's raining does'nt mean the war is over
TANICA S HALL Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feelings as to sight?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As Christians, the invisible things are supposed to be more real to us than the visible things.
SUNDAY ADELAJA I've directed 'Raisin in the Sun' five times. You keep discovering things. You keep on s...
KENNY LEON Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for ...
WOLE SOYINKA for what was a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?
JEFF VANDERMEER The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musi...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tin...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to ...
AMBROSE BIERCE But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD's oath th...
BIBLE As Christians we should believe that the invisible things are more powerful than the visible things.
SUNDAY ADELAJA The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denie...
MAX BILL He had the vision to do things and he wasn't afraid to step out and do something just because it was...
CRAIG MCLAUGHLIN I do hear from people at my exhibition about seeing these things made from this toy from their child...
NATHAN SAWAYA Promises and Pye-Crusts, are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast gre...
JONATHAN SWIFT Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
JONATHAN SWIFT We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
JONATHAN SWIFT We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
JONATHAN SWIFT If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would
not have given them to such a sco...
JONATHAN SWIFT He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be pu...
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JONATHAN SWIFT Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
JONATHAN SWIFT The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false op...
JONATHAN SWIFT Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
JONATHAN SWIFT Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he canno...
JONATHAN SWIFT Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
JONATHAN SWIFT I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my ju...
JONATHAN SWIFT The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his w...
JONATHAN SWIFT A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
JONATHAN SWIFT I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy ch...
JONATHAN SWIFT Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFT The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
JONATHAN SWIFT The most positive men are the most credulous.
JONATHAN SWIFT May you live every day of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with e...
JONATHAN SWIFT Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
JONATHAN SWIFT Don't set your wit against a child.
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JONATHAN SWIFT It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdo...
JONATHAN SWIFT Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
JONATHAN SWIFT The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet w...
JONATHAN SWIFT Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.
JONATHAN SWIFT Rebukes are easy from our betters,
From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will ...
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JONATHAN SWIFT I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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JONATHAN SWIFT 'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
JONATHAN SWIFT I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contrib...
JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: a...
JONATHAN SWIFT Come, agree, the law's costly.
JONATHAN SWIFT There's none so blind as they that won't see.
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; wh...
JONATHAN SWIFT Brutes find out where their talents lie;
A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
JONATHAN SWIFT But when a Man
JONATHAN SWIFT Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
JONATHAN SWIFT I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ...
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JONATHAN SWIFT I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.
JONATHAN SWIFT I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
JONATHAN SWIFT It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
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JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a
pitchfork.
JONATHAN SWIFT Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positi...
JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears
of corn, or two blades of grass, ...
JONATHAN SWIFT I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home.
JONATHAN SWIFT Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
JONATHAN SWIFT Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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JONATHAN SWIFT I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a...
JONATHAN SWIFT How we apples swim.
JONATHAN SWIFT Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our
hives with honey and wax, thus furnis...
JONATHAN SWIFT Convey a libel in a frown.
And wink a reputation down!
JONATHAN SWIFT For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFT The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been...
JONATHAN SWIFT Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
JONATHAN SWIFT They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
JONATHAN SWIFT What some invent the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT I heard the little bird say so.
JONATHAN SWIFT A prince, the moment he is crown'd,
Inherits every virtue sound,
As emblems of the sovereign p...
JONATHAN SWIFT Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking
what nobody else has thought.
JONATHAN SWIFT So, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller sti...
JONATHAN SWIFT A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFT In all distresses of our friends
We first consult our private ends;
While Nature, kindly bent ...
JONATHAN SWIFT A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to
him.
JONATHAN SWIFT He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams
out of cucumbers, which were to be p...
JONATHAN SWIFT Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts wit...
JONATHAN SWIFT Necessity is the mother of invention.
JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that th...
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally
discover everybody's face but their own.
JONATHAN SWIFT It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguishe...
JONATHAN SWIFT We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT Never sleeping, still awake,
Pleasing most when most I speak;
The delight of old and young,
...
JONATHAN SWIFT Bread is the staff of life.
JONATHAN SWIFT Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but which let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFT The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
JONATHAN SWIFT Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength....
JONATHAN SWIFT Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.
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JONATHAN SWIFT Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFT When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by this sign, that the dines are all in co...
JONATHAN SWIFT Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture...
JONATHAN SWIFT Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
JONATHAN SWIFT Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFT Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
JONATHAN SWIFT As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
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JONATHAN SWIFT There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
JONATHAN SWIFT Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest ...
JONATHAN SWIFT There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
JONATHAN SWIFT Books, the children of the brain.
JONATHAN SWIFT Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their ow...
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JONATHAN SWIFT Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules ...
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JONATHAN SWIFT Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by...
JONATHAN SWIFT The rolling fictions grow in strength and size,
Each author adding to the former lies.
JONATHAN SWIFT I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats
and dogs.
JONATHAN SWIFT What some invent, the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder pe...
JONATHAN SWIFT Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves ...
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JONATHAN SWIFT The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
JONATHAN SWIFT Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
JONATHAN SWIFT Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, ...
JONATHAN SWIFT No wise man ever wished to be younger.
JONATHAN SWIFT A college joke to cure the dumps.
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JONATHAN SWIFT He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
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JONATHAN SWIFT Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
JONATHAN SWIFT Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
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JONATHAN SWIFT We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. -Jonath...
JONATHAN SWIFT An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of
money, and hide them in a hole, whic...
JONATHAN SWIFT Hail, fellow, well met,
All dirty and wet:
Find out, if you can,
Who's master, who's man...
JONATHAN SWIFT They never would hear,
But turn the deaf ear,
As a matter they had no concern in.
JONATHAN SWIFT Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em.
[Lat., Libertas et natale solum.]
JONATHAN SWIFT Where Young must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
JONATHAN SWIFT 'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem
JONATHAN SWIFT May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFT It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have...
JONATHAN SWIFT I row after health like a waterman...
JONATHAN SWIFT He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
JONATHAN SWIFT Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
JONATHAN SWIFT Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched ...
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JONATHAN SWIFT A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he i...
JONATHAN SWIFT The tucked-up sempstress walks hasty strides,
While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
JONATHAN SWIFT I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand
JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to...
JONATHAN SWIFT I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth
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JONATHAN SWIFT Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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JONATHAN SWIFT A lie is an excuse guarded
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JONATHAN SWIFT Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
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