Glances Quotes
410 Glances quotes by 324 unique authors
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Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if…
— R. Kent Hughes
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One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There also exists another alliance - at first glance a strange one, a surprising one - but if you think about it, in fact, one…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical glance, the nature…
— Franz Joseph Gall
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To brisk notes in cadence beating, glance their many-twinkling feet.
— Thomas Gray
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Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
— William Wordsworth
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The rule of thumb for the old backpacking was that the weight of your pack should equal the weight of yourself and the kitchen range…
— Patrick F. McManus
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
— Jean Cocteau
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My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a…
— Galileo Galilei
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of…
— Galileo Galilei
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The Nile, draining out into the Mediterranean. The bright lights of Cairo announce the opening of the north-flowing river’s delta, with Jerusalem’s answering high beams to…
— Chris Hadfield
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It is apparent at first glance that in The Double there is more creative talent and depth of thought than in Poor Folk. But meanwhile…
— Vissarion Belinsky
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At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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While this may look loving, when we struggle with an idol of dependence, we’re in fact not loving people as much as we’re using them…
— Mark Driscoll
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The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.
— William Stafford
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A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you see the depth,…
— Carl Safina
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She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.
— Frank Deford
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Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it will go out…
— John Owen
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This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost…
— Martin Gardner
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Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not because they are lucky guessers, not because they are divinely inspired, not because they…
— H. L. Mencken
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
— Erma Bombeck
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Praise, help, or even a look, may be enough to interrupt him, or destroy the activity. It seems a strange thing to say, but this…
— Maria Montessori
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An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.
— Robert Smithson
Who Wrote These Glances Quotes
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