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Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen. -- Anaxagoras
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven. -- Thomas Moore
Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning. -- Josiah Royce
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. -- Albert Camus
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. -- John Lennon
The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it. -- George Berkeley
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture. -- Leonard Nimoy
I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat. -- Anna Quindlen
On seeing one thing, you see all things. On perceiving an individual's mind, you perceive all mind. Glimpse one truth, and all truth is present in your vision, for there is nowhere at all that is devoid of the Truth. -- Huangbo Xiyun
Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes
When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born. -- Zig Ziglar
The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still. -- Daniel Nathans
Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment? -- Tom Cruise
Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man? -- W. L. George
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves. -- Robert Quillen
When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine. -- Len Wein
As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid. -- Adolf Hitler
The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes
Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings. -- Lydia M. Child
Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else. -- Vince Neil
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 shore with towers and buildings. -- Charles Dickens
Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country. -- Pierre Loti
There are times, you know, it's said in the Spiritual Tradition, just a glimpse at an enlightened personage can convey immense information at the sub-conscious level that sprouts later, that we don't even know. -- Dan Millman
We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away. -- George Harrison
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 that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others. -- Taylor Dane
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 content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. -- William Osler
One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old friends you haven't seen in a long time is, for me, it's a glimpse of who I was. -- Lea Thompson
Just stop it. Seriously. Whatever it is. Just stop it. If only for an hour, a day, a week. Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse of what the change would actually look like. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then. -- Bill Murray
Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works. -- Lewis Thomas
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 haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon? -- Algernon H. Blackwood
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes
I love watching people, and that's what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o'clock, and go down a busy street, where you see people coming out of school and you get a glimpse of their lives, what they're talking about. -- Andrea Corr
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 and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold. -- Nellie Bly
I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies. -- Martin McDonagh
Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by. -- Og Mandino
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Neurologically, people have a need to feel oriented, to know where they are, not just in terms of a compass and not just in terms of geography, but in terms of their culture and history. To be informed about where they're coming from and to have some glimpse towards a hopeful future. -- James Howard Kunstler
Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I'd lost my father too, it was too easy for me to glimpse a future point where I alone was the keeper of not just my own childhood memories, but of my family lore. -- Ann Hood
We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence. -- John Piper
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
Content is a glimpse. -- Willem de Kooning
Every true friend is a glimpse of God. -- Lucy Larcom
Every pure thought is a glimpse of God. -- C. A. Bartol
Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden. -- Anaxagoras
A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God. -- Peter Ustinov
My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity. -- Edgar Mitchell
The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone. -- Laura Whitcomb
You may fancy a glimpse of the abyss where I grovelled! -- Emily Bronte
A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time. -- John Updike
Ecstasy is a glimpse of the infinite; horror is full disclosure. -- Kirk J. Schneider
I believe in anthologies, although I know they offer only a glimpse. -- Leonora Speyer
Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness. -- Nadeem Aslam
A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality. -- Alfred Hitchcock
Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world. -- Lester Bangs
To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden. -- James Herbert
There are places on earth where we can catch a glimpse of heaven. -- Anthony D. Williams
I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window. -- Pablo Neruda
Here is another marvy glimpse into the gothic basement that I call my mind. -- Louise Rennison
Perhaps we are all too small-minded to glimpse creation, even out little corner of it. -- Janet Lee Carey
Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail, -- Sally Jewell
We were created for the purpose of giving God's invisible character a glimpse of visibility. -- Beth Moore
Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse? -- Roland Barthes
Noble fatherhood gives us a glimpse of the divine attributes of our Father in Heaven. -- James E. Faust
Sadoway does more than entertain; he gives you a glimpse into the future of energy. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Sands of time pause... for a glimpse of moments dyed with the color of dance. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Instead of an unhinged lunatic you may glimpse a punctured soul-a mere human being like you. -- Shannon Love
A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder. -- J. Courtney Sullivan
It was while starting my business that I saw my first glimpse of government's impact on business. -- Kay Granger
Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself. -- Chogyam Trungpa
Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content. -- Willem de Kooning
What miracle of weird transforming Is this wild work of frost and light, This glimpse of glory infinite? -- John Greenleaf Whittier
The best that can happen is that someone can catch a glimpse of the glory you're hinting at. -- Rich Mullins
What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do. -- Randy Moss
Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul. -- Shannon Hale
Addiction struggle is believing you are separate from love. It took me a long time to glimpse that. -- Angel Grant
An inference of perspective, a glimpse of regularity, causation of habit, and the only recurrence: my faith in you. -- Camilo Garzon
Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse. -- Ram Dass
Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness. -- Andre Maurois
Synchronicity is an inexplicable and profoundly meaningful coincidence that stirs the soul and offers a glimpse of one's destiny. -- Phil Cousineau
If our young people could but glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives! -- David O. McKay
In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes. -- Cole Porter
Haiti allowed us to glimpse into a future of what disaster response might look like in a hyper-connected world. -- Paul Conneally
People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death. -- Don DeLillo
In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door. -- David Steindl-Rast
Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist. -- Richard Flanagan
It always gave me a peculiar feeling to catch a glimpse of my parents' lives before I was born. -- Robert Drewe
I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing. -- Richard Peck
Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle. -- Mary Renault
I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker. -- David Bowie
Our memory of dreams is a glimpse of the full spiritual life that each of us leads beyond the physical. -- Harold Klemp
Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential. -- Steve Toltz
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears. -- Alexander Smith
I'd walked too close to heaven and gotten a glimpse. The hell I'd lived before her no longer appealed to me. -- Abbi Glines
For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving. -- Lewis B. Smedes
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose somber depths turn us faint .... Yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness. -- Gustave Flaubert
Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion. -- Charles Handy
We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments. -- Abraham Maslow
An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity. -- Thomas McGuane
You've only had a small glimpse of how insufferable and annoying I can be. As the older brother, it's my birthright. -- Maria V. Snyder
She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years. -- Julia Quinn
From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness. -- Mark Haddon
Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat. -- Lurlene McDaniel
If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement. -- Octavio Paz
It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven. -- Anthony Storr
Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side. -- Fridtjof Nansen
I would do violence for one glimpse of your naked breasts. Bleed for one taste of your nipple on my tongue. (Winter Makepeace) -- Elizabeth Hoyt
Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way. -- John Muir
I hated the mirror and avoided it as much as I could. A glimpse would only remind me: I'll never be normal again. -- Lauren Scruggs
The purpose of meditation is to stop thinking for a time, wait for the fog of thought to thin, and glimpse the spirit within. -- Deepak Chopra
Great. Just great. One glimpse of his body and I have a full-blown crush. I honestly thought I was a bit deeper than that. -- Sophie Kinsella
Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind. -- Eckhart Tolle
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