It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. — Vladimir Nabokov
The first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving birth to heaven and earth. — Kahlil Gibran
...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance. — Ian McEwan
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange. — Octavio Paz
Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea that you could see someone tomorrow and she could be the love of your life? It's very romantic. — Leonardo DiCaprio
The sight of you is good for sore eyes. — Jonathan Swift
I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems. — Keanu Reeves
And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me. — Ford Madox Ford
Short First Sight Quotes
Like sweet morning dew
I took one look at you
And it was plain to see
You were my destiny — Method Man
The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color - oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples. — Anna Godbersen
Luce and Daniel fell in love for the first- and the last- time — Lauren Kate
It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing. — Howard Carter
Infatuation is the language of a beautiful eye upon a sensitive heart. — Joseph R. Bartlett
First feelings are always the most natural. — Louis XIV
When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew. — Arrigo Boito
The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. — African Proverbs
First Sight Image Quotes
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.
Not Love At First Sight Quotes
I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you. — Cassandra Clare
It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. — Cassandra Clare
I believe in love at first sight for houses - but not for people. — Danielle Steel
You have to be odd to be number one.
If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66) — Victor Hugo
I don't believe in love at first sight because it means you're falling in love with someone's looks, not personality. — Nathan Sykes
She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight. — E. M. Forster
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, surrounded by assholes.
Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight? — Christopher Marlowe
Time was too much a part of love, for even in fairytales the proof of love was not its first moment, but its latest ones - that people lived happily ever after. Love at first sight was nothing but infatuation until proved by time. — Margaret Mahy
A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter. — Lois McMaster Bujold
I don't think I've ever had love at first sight. I am somebody who starts to do something, and I keep on doing it without knowing if I like it or not. At some point I realize, "You know, I really like this," and it could be music; it could be anything. I like to embrace life like that. — Mauro Remiddi
Love At First Sight Quotes
People believe those fairytales about falling in love at first sight at the bus, subway, or at the streets. But it doesn’t make sense how they’d laugh at the ones who fell in love at first sight through TV screens. Loving a celebrity IS a type of love. Love is fair to everyone. — Tablo
As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes for a second, as though I’m looking at him through my camera lens, zoomed in all the way, the world pausing for that tiny span of time between the opening and closing of the shutter. — Lauren Oliver
First think, second believe, third dream and finally dare.
First romance, first love, is something so special to all of us, both emotionally and physically, that it touches our lives and enriches them forever. — Rosemary Rogers
I want a Sunday kind of love
A love to last past Saturday night
And I’d like to know it’s more than love at first sight — Etta James
They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up. — Daniel Wallace
Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you test first and the lesson afterward.
I don't have an ideal type; I'm more of a love-at-first-sight guy. — Onew
All my photographs are about meetings and about coups de foudre - love at first sight. To do that type of photography, one must wipe the canvas clean to prepare for chance encounters, be open and aware to such moments, otherwise it becomes a cliché - already seen and expected. — Edouard Boubat
Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate. — Barbara Hershey
I just don't believe in love at first sight any more, even though I've based my whole career on the concept. — Hugh Grant
First Encounter Quotes
How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter. — W. C. Fields
When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation. — Seamus Heaney
I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, when I was 12. — Tucker Carlson
It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes. — Dian Fossey
In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given. — Desmond Tutu
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time. — Margot Fonteyn
Always observe your opponent carefully. You need to use the
first seconds of every encounter to evaluate the length of their
blade, the length of their arms, etc. — Masaaki Hatsumi
Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan. — Jeff Bezos
Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter. — Oprah Winfrey
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward. — Joseph Campbell
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. — Karl Marx
One of the first sights that shocked me, when I came to Israel in 1921, was an Arab turning over a field with a very primitive plow; pulling the plow were an ox and a woman. Now, if it means that we have destroyed this romantic picture by bringing in tractors, combines, and threshing machines, this is true: we have. — Golda Meir
At first, He shook us very tenderly but now His shaking has become violent, because He has not succeeded in awakening us... God is going to shake everything in sight so that He is revealed as the only unshakable power! — David Wilkerson
Of all the animals with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercised more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means which she affords to the relieving these necessities. — David Hume
When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning. — Abraham Verghese
The first rule of making progress in anything you do is setting goals, allowing yourself to always have a finish line in sight. This provides a boost in motivation during those moments when slogging forward seems impossible, giving you something tangible to work towards at every moment. — T. Harv Eker
A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to be traveled is independent of our will and we cannot know in advance where we shall end. — Peter Singer
Scripture teaches us that we should trust God and not lean on our own wisdom or understanding. To do this, we have to strive to know God intimately, walking by faith and not by sight. This may not be easy at first, but it starts with simple obedience. — Craig Groeschel
When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side. — Florence Griffith Joyner
A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam. — John Millington Synge
First, when I was 12, I saw a Spanish girl jumping rope. I never saw her face, but it was still the most beautiful sight I'd ever seen. — Gene Simmons
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days? — George Bernard Shaw
Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light. — John Dryden
First of all, who's your A&R?
A mountain climber who plays an electric guitar?
But he don't know the meaning of dope,
When he's lookin for a suit and tie rap
That's cleaner than a bar of soap!
And I'm the dirtiest thing in sight,
Matter of fact, bring out the girls and let's have a mud fight. — GZA
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face. — Stendhal
Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight. — Muhammad Iqbal
I'm a wear-my-heart-on-my-sleeve, fall in love-at-first-sight and go with it sort of girl. It's all about having fun with someone and learning how to communicate with someone, in a way that you enjoy. — Anne Hathaway
A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight. — Samuel Johnson
The rising sun complies with our weak sight, First gilds the clouds, then shows his globe of light At such a distance from our eyes, as though He knew what harm his hasty beams would do. — Edmund Waller
Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I don't believe in love at first sight. I think it's a grave mistake. — Lee Kuan Yew
The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini. — Tom Waits
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