Glances Quotes

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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was… — Saint Augustine
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. — Charles Baudelaire
On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the… — Nellie Bly
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil… — Benjamin Peirce
Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight thither. The moment… — John Peter Altgeld
Pardon me," I answered, as I placed a bundle of straw upon the fire and slightly stirred it. Then I turned quickly but already we… — Francois Laurent d'Arlandes
Prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the… — Therese of Lisieux
And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself,… — Soren Kierkegaard
The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely… — Mary Webb
You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked at Congress can… — P.J. O'Rourke
To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect… — Samuel Johnson
Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it… — Freeman Dyson
Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools. — David C. Stark
In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem insignificant; others loom so large… — Bronislaw Malinowski
In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the… — Christopher Hitchens
Must you continue to be your own cross? No matter which way God leads you, you change everything into bitterness by constantly brooding over everything.… — Jane Frances de Chantal
Look how the blue-eyed violets glance love to one another. — Thomas Buchanan Read
What is striking is these things [patterns in nature, e.g. fish stripes] do look like something that has been crafted. We are conditioned to think… — Philip Ball
Live each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are… — Fulton J. Sheen

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