Best Gleam Quotes
123 Gleam quotes by 103 unique authors
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Winter Song The browns, the olives, and the yellows died, And were swept up to heaven; where they glowed Each dawn and set of sun…
— Wilfred Owen
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The bubble headed bleach blonde comes on at five, she can tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye. It's interesting…
— Don Henley
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Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of…
— Pliny the Elder
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History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale…
— Winston Churchill
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You have discovered the spiritual universe. Many others have discovered this same world, but each must make the discovery for himself. You are going to…
— Ernest Holmes
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I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Now, however we have a new experience. We have a victory - a remarkable…
— Winston Churchill
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There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the…
— Virginia Woolf
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I am a part of all that I have met. Yet, experience is an arch wherethro gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades forever and…
— Homer
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In the evening, I walked alone down to the Lake by the side of Crow Park after sunset and saw the solemn coloring of night…
— Thomas Gray
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Well do I remember that dark hot little office in the hospital at Begumpett, with the necessary gleam of light coming in from under the…
— Ronald Ross
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The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes…
— Leslie Charteris
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Beneath our feet a fairy pathway flows, The grass still glitters in the summer breeze, The dusky wood, and distant copse appear, And that lone…
— Robert Montgomery
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Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of proverbs. In the…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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High in the air rises the forest of oaks, high over the oaks soar the eagle, high over the eagle sweep the clouds, high over…
— Heinrich Heine
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I recall this passage as the hour of its first fully coming over me that she was a beautiful liberal creature. I had seen her…
— Henry James
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There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and…
— John Ruskin
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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
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Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.
— Robert Burns
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Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling…
— Northrop Frye
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It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a…
— William Manchester
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War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of…
— H.G. Wells
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We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so…
— Pablo Neruda
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We cannot conduct reforms that affect the people adversely. If therapy drags out for decades and no gleam of light is seen, it is certainly…
— Yevgeny Primakov
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