Glances Quotes

410 Glances quotes by 324 unique authors

As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er… — Charles Lamb
At this time I choseas friends two little girls of my own age; but how shallow are the hearts of creatures! Oneof them had to… — Therese of Lisieux
Oh, but it was splendid the things women were doing for men all the time, thought Jane. Making them feel, perhaps sometimes by no more… — Barbara Pym
The whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind so that I can survey it at a glance. Nor do… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand… — William Wordsworth
We are like dwarfs [the moderns] sitting on the shoulders of giants [the ancients]. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther… — Bernard of Chartres
And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a… — Malcolm Gladwell
I do not doubt that if the Paradisal man could now appear among us, we should regard him as an utter savage, a creature to… — C.S. Lewis
I can't convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at large. Their contained… — Kenny Smith
IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on,… — Jack Dorsey
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the… — Giuseppe Mazzini
I live! Red life boils in my veins, earth yields beneath my feet, in the glow of love I embrace trees and statues, and they… — Heinrich Heine
The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and… — Jean de la Bruyere
Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance. — Honore de Balzac
But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance;… — Friedrich Nietzsche
One single glance will conquer all descriptions. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn… — Samuel Johnson
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated… — Isadora Duncan
A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss… — Carl Linnaeus
I was sat at the bottom of the garden a week ago, smoking a reflective cheroot, thinking about this and that - mostly that, and… — Les Dawson
One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort… — N. T. Wright
True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehension as well as physical perception. Yet how rarely we have either. We generally only glance at… — Ross Parmenter

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