Gleams Quotes

47 quotes by 36 authors

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. — Samuel Beckett
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
As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air. — Torquato Tasso
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
My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky. — Kabir
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it. — Claude Adrien Helvetius
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
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
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
We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so… — Pablo Neruda
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
I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country. — Thomas Carlyle
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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