Gleams Quotes
47 quotes by 36 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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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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As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.
— Torquato Tasso
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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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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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Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of…
— Malcolm De Chazal
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Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal…
— William Wordsworth
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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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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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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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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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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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The saddest day has gleams of light, The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it. There twinkles o'er the cloudiest night, Some solitary star to…
— Sarah Winnemucca
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I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
— Thomas Carlyle
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After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams like running quicksilver,…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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