Glimpses Quotes

98 Glimpses quotes by 89 unique authors

It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and… — John Cage
All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and contours. You feel the inspiration… — John O'Donohue
It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a kingdom of ideal… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own way, and even… — Banana Yoshimoto
Memory is a tenuous thing. . . . flickering glimpses, blue and white, like ancient, decomposing 16mm film. Happiness escapes me there, where faces are… — Ellen Hopkins
Youâ€™ll join me sooner than you know in a place with . . . no illusions, where the truth is the only architecture, the only… — Mark Helprin
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes,… — Leo Tolstoy
I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They… — Katherine Dunn
I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
When did you get so smart?" He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I'm passing all my classes with my eyes… — Maggie Stiefvater
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses… — Edgar Allan Poe
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within… — Aberjhani
Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way. — Mark Nepo
A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand Design… — Connie Willis
I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal. — Jonathan Kozol
You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby's diaper,… — Max Lucado
And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much--so many rare little glimpses of… — Kate Chopin
I am a Christianâ€¦so that I do not expect â€˜historyâ€™ to be anything but a â€˜long defeatâ€™ â€” though it contains (and in a legend… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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