Glittering Quotes

135 quotes by 123 authors

The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily. — Zygmunt Bauman
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. — Thomas Carlyle
At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his glory, unveiling the… — Ann Radcliffe
The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation -… — David Lloyd George
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering… — Winston Churchill
My mom always said I liked to stir the pot with a glittering spoon. — Kris Carr
I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul. Soul is at home in the deep,… — Dalai Lama
That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing. — Euripides
The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation… — George Orwell
When my children wake up in the morning they know they will eat breakfast, get hugs from their parents, go to a good, safe school.… — Susan Sarandon
Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one… — Mark Twain
Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering… — Max Lerner
I had no fear of the stream's perils, and I listened with the greatest contentment to the quiet slap of water on rocks, the running… — Clare B. Dunkle
The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering… — Sylvia Plath
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude. — John Stuart Blackie
We have set out on a quest for true humanity, and somewhere on the distant horizon we can see the glittering prize. Let us march… — Steven Biko
Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self. ...You think of the two types of aloneness you've known recently: this wonderful,… — Nikki Gemmell
The treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this alone is the real treasure you are longing for all your… — B. Traven
The Glittering World is a stunning phantasmagoria drawn from the world just beneath the surface, aswarm with great and memorable characters and a plot that… — Keith Donohue
A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature… — Augustus William Hare

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