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Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't stare. -- Jenny McCarthy
Glance is the enemy of vision. -- Ezra Pound
Glance backward, look heavenward, reach outward, press onward -- Thomas S. Monson
Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think. -- Hildegard of Bingen
Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of earth's greenings. Now, think. What delight God gives to humankind with all these things . All nature is at the disposal of humankind. We are to work with it. For without we cannot survive. -- Hildegard of Bingen
The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make. -- George Crumb
An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words. -- Robert Smithson
You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter. -- Judith Martin
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. -- John Muir
The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does. -- Tom Vilsack
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance. -- James Thurber
On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings. -- Nellie Bly
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -- Cynthia Heimel
I was actually very hesitant to write about Marie Antoinette. She seemed at first glance - well, I cannot think of any other term - an airhead of the first degree. -- Kathryn Lasky
The issues of the day have never seemed more complicated, and yet the conversations over how to solve them increasingly resemble cars passing down a divided highway. Whizzing by without a glance. -- Lester Holt
A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them. -- Carolus Linnaeus
But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future. -- Linda Lingle
Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us. -- Tariq Ramadan
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning. -- Aristotle
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. -- Saint Augustine
Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers, and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love. -- Therese of Lisieux
The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking. -- Henry Rollins
Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at human folly reveals that good looks and worthiness operate independently. Yet countless socializing forces, from Aunt Clara to the latest perfume ad, reinforce beliefs like 'If I were pretty enough, I would be loved.' -- Martha Beck
On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis. -- Sylvia Earle
Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries for their early work and subjected to exhaustive attack when later works were thought to be inferior. Both developed their art without so much as a nodding glance toward their peers. -- Jon Landau
One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business. -- N. T. Wright
I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge. -- Walter Murch
Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire -- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
One single glance will conquer all descriptions. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
The glance of Love is crystal clear. -- Rumi
Women read each other at a single glance. -- Antoine Rivarol
A backward glance can often lift the heart. -- Dante Alighieri
Symmetry is what we see at a glance. -- Blaise Pascal
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance. -- Jean Cocteau
The sidelong glance is what you depend on. -- Robert Frost
Look how the blue-eyed violets glance love to one another. -- Thomas Buchanan Read
To brisk notes in cadence beating, glance their many-twinkling feet. -- Thomas Gray
Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure. -- Henry David Thoreau
On film you put all your energies into a single glance. -- Alan Rickman
The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand. -- William Stafford
I read little, I just glance through one newspaper. Just 15 minutes. -- Pope Francis
He can play that leg glance with a walking stick also. -- Waqar Younis
We need to glance at our problems and stare at Jesus! -- Joyce Meyer
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. -- Erma Bombeck
...falling in love could be achieved in a single word"?a glance. -- Ian Mcewan
The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance -- Anna Funder
At first glance it may appear too hard. Look again. Always look again. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance. -- Robert Breault
Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance. -- Robert Breault
Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance. -- William Wordsworth
In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance. -- Mason Cooley
Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being. -- Edmund Husserl
She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here. -- Jeet Thayil
At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us. -- Minor White
A glance at Christ will save, but it is the gazing at Christ that sanctifies. -- Robert E. Murray
Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance. -- Helen Humphreys
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance. -- Niels Bohr
the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent. -- Charles Bukowski
For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope. -- Freeman Dyson
Life works better when we know how to glance at things but gaze at God. -- Selwyn Hughes
Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance. -- Honore de Balzac
A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame. -- Aeschylus
The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy. -- Sydney Smith
One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Avoid the "hard-to-grasp" headline - the headline that requires thought and is not clear at first glance. -- John Caples
Everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more. -- Veronica Roth
Yeah 'ear 'ear," said George, with half a glance at Fred, the corner of whose mouth twitched. -- J. K. Rowling
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance. -- Jodi Picoult
I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture. -- Juliet Marillier
Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word. -- Honore de Balzac
Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance! -- Dante Alighieri
A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it. -- Suzanne Collins
Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless. -- Tom Boellstorff
That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow. -- George Eliot
Or perhaps all those things you missed upon first glance mean much more than you could ever guess. -- Sara Shepard
An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl. -- Emile Zola
What I remember about being painted was a very severe atmosphere. I remember her intensity and sharp glance. -- Andrew Neel
Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools. -- David C. Stark
Growing up in a house of five girls, I couldn't help but glance at a fashion magazine or two. -- Karlie Kloss
For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs? -- Lisa Kleypas
To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive. -- Abraham Verghese
God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty. -- John of the Cross
It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance. -- Annie Dillard
In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear. -- Therese of Lisieux
There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations. -- Jean de la Bruyere
To live a more balanced life, glance at the past, live in the present, and focus on the future. -- Todd Stocker
No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart. -- Nancy Thayer
Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity. -- Khalil Gibran
A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern. -- W. G. Sebald
It's OK to glance in the rear-view to see where you've been, but stay focused on where you are going! -- Mark Hewer
I'm 5-foot-5, and I'll wear a big parka and put the hood up, and nobody gives me a second glance. -- Daniel Radcliffe
Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference... -- Blaise Pascal
Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly. -- Wilfred Owen
She breathed. "This is lovely." It was for Adam, not Gansey, but she saw Gansey glance over his shoulder at her. -- Maggie Stiefvater
When you allow me to live with you, every glance at the world around you will be a sort of salvation. -- William Stafford
Am I crazy Loretta?" "A little," she says. I glance up at her. "Sometimes we're called on to do crazy things. -- Donna VanLiere
My head spins as I glance away, refusing to get sucked back into his gaze when so much is at risk. -- Emily Giffin
I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them. -- Peter Webber
One final glance back at the hotel. Philias Switchmoat the Third, stepping from the curb and in to a puddle. Disappeared. -- Stephen J. Day
And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me. -- Ford Madox Ford
Henry's breath hissed out through his teeth. That ba-bad man, he finished, with a quick glance at Cecily, who rolled her eyes. -- Cassandra Clare
The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance. -- Philip Guston
The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are! -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all. -- Nikolai Gogol
Ah! That glance of yours did some magic on me, you were not aware of. For once I died and was reborn. -- Ramana Pemmaraju
I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance. -- Jean Rostand
Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational. -- Don DeLillo
Why wouldn't I dance?' Uh, maybe because at first glance he looked like he ate puppies for breakfast and kittens for lunch? -- Gena Showalter
You are solidified silence, awareness. A thousand hours of speech cannot equal one glance: a hundred glances cannot equal a minute of silence -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
At first glance, that might seem a little silly: why put so much stress on a simple thing? But that's precisely the point. -- Nhat Hanh
Put a glance all around and you will see that the slaves of the United States are either rulers or enemies of Muslims. -- Osama bin Laden
We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Our gazes met. It seemed an entire conversation took place in that one glance. Each of us saw what we needed to know. -- Lisa Kleypas
Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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