Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past…

A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to all that…

— Friedrich Schiller

Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving…

— William Butler Yeats

Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at the way…

— Caroline Pratt

In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on…

— Clark Ashton Smith

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

— Walter Benjamin

And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what…

— Edgar Allan Poe

She glances back before stepping into the alley, and she catches her grandfather looking at her the way he does sometimes--as if she's already…

— Julianna Baggott

“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so…

— Daphne du Maurier

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

— Walt Whitman

Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to…

— Honore de Balzac

Steadying herself with both hands on the table, she managed an awkward bow… 'Your Highness,' she stammered, head lowered... The prince flinched and cast…

— Marissa Meyer

The one piece of advice I would give to any actor is, if you want to go out on the street without being recognised,…

— Daniel Radcliffe

And yes, I'll admit, I am jealous. I'm jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every concerned expression you send his way,…

— Colleen Houck

Thy dangerous glances make women of men; new-born, we are melting into nature again.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One glance and I knew exactly who and what he was. The classic alpha male, the kind who had spurred evolution forward about five…

— Lisa Kleypas