Gleam Quotes
123 quotes by 103 authors
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
— Samuel Beckett
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Physical beauty and ugliness is not very important. The real thing is the inner. I can teach you how to be beautiful from within, and…
— Rajneesh
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Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes.
— Charles Baudelaire
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May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one…
— George Eliot
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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all,…
— Agnes Repplier
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There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river…
— George Eliot
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless…
— Victor Hugo
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So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far from the earth,…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those…
— Hannah More
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They cant censor the gleam in my eye.
— Charles Laughton
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. The revelation,…
— Yousuf Karsh
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Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as…
— Pindar
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As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.
— Torquato Tasso
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There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all…
— Evelyn Waugh
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No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain. Again,…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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The hair of his face, on the contrary, carroty and flaming, resembled a growth of copper wire clipped short to the line of the lip;…
— Joseph Conrad
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Warriors always have a certain gleam in their eyes.
— Paulo Coelho
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My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
— Kabir
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The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral…
— Ross Macdonald
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When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he…
— Anton Chekhov
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