Glimpses Quotes

98 Glimpses quotes by 89 unique authors

Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions? For in this… — Peter Matthiessen
I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as… — Grace Hartigan
Everything felt fragile and freshly come upon, but for now, at least, my depression had stepped back, giving me room to move forward. I had… — Daphne Merkin
Love isn’t only love, sweetheart. It’s hard work, and trust, and tears, with even a few glimpses of devastation. But at the end of each… — Nicole Williams
In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes… — Nellie Bly
Coincidences are glimpses in to the creative mind of the universe. — Deepak Chopra
When I come clean about my brokenness, others catch glimpses of how the real grace of a real God works in the messy life of… — Jason Gray
All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died… — C.S. Lewis
In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in… — Mark Twain
Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on from art to… — Paul Brunton
I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within… — Taylor Dane
When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another… — Charles Dickens
And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never really noticed it… — Michael Frayn
A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never… — Henry David Thoreau
It is an extraordinary and beautiful thing that God, in creation. . . works with the beauty of matter; the reality of things; the discoveries… — Madeleine L'Engle
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
When I write, I get glimpses into future novels. — Patricia Briggs
I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as… — Eben Alexander
It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place… — Algernon Blackwood
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be… — Yusef Komunyakaa
From the accounts of those who have had glimpses of Heaven in visions and revelations, it seems that we do mature somewhat in Heaven. Those… — David Berg
This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass… — Mark Twain
The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber of the king's… — Philip James Bailey
I have a naive trust in the universe - that at some level it all makes sense, and we can get glimpses of that sense… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be… — William Osler

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