Glances quotes
54 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has."
"See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary."
"Life works better when we know how to glance at things but gaze at God."
"Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness."
"Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance."
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"Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure."
"A backward glance can often lift the heart."
"The glance of Love is crystal clear."
"She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance."
"Glance is the enemy of vision."
"The sidelong glance is what you depend on."
"The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove."
"Everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more."
"I glance at Tris. She grins at me, then leans in to whisper something to Christina. "Are you here to help or what, Stiff?" I say."
"You lose the world for a glance? Of course you do. That is what the world is for: to lose under the right circunstances."
