Flashes Quotes

143 quotes by 132 authors

Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself in the astral… — Annie Besant
I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful… — Alan Alda
Houses - the dark side silhouetted on flashes of moonlight! — William Carlos Williams
Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven. — Henry David Thoreau
Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves… — Lewis Thomas
Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty. Prayer includes moments… — Philip Yancey
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting… — Katherine Anne Porter
Lock yourself up in your room or go out in the woods where you an be alone. When you are alone the universe talks to… — Walter Russell
After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing… — Henry Adams
Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living… — Henry David Thoreau
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes… — Richard Chenevix Trench
The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most beautiful period of… — Jean Paul
Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer… — Annie Dillard
Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little… — Jack H. Goaslind
The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. — Herman Melville
I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen. But… — James Dickey
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover… — John Berryman
It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less by critical studies and learned… — Carl von Clausewitz
Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction of free sociability… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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