Glances Quotes - Page 17

• Again and again I've taken quick glances and then for some reason I've got to sit before a picture waiting and it's opened up like one of those Japanese flowers that you put into water and something I thought wasn't worth more than a casual, respectful glance begins to open up depth after depth of meaning.

  Wendy Beckett

  Art, Flower, Taken

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• Everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.

  Veronica Roth

  Kissing, Scream, Just One

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• Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand days. It is silent and elusive, refusing to be damned and dripped out day by day; it swirls through the mind while an entire lifetime can ride like foam on the deceptive, transparent waves and get sprayed onto the conciousness at ragged, unexpected intervals.

  Gloria Naylor

  Hurt, Memories, Glasses

  Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.35, Penguin

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• 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.

  Veronica Roth

  Helping, Tris, Christina

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• An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kindness, Eye, Heart

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• That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Relationship, Marriage, Distance

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3265, Delphi Classics

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• In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Mother, Religious, Trials

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• Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at the river, and he also saw the river going downhill, always moving on downhill, and singing and being happy through it all.

  Hermann Hesse

  Moving, Rivers, Singing

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.45, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• The thread of will-they-or-won't-they was the real driver of every word and glance and shift of body. So...this was a date, Blay thought. A subtextual negotiation slipcovered in talk of books read and music enjoyed.

  J.R. Ward

  Real, Book, Body

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• This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophical, Heaven, Soul

  Victor Hugo (1894). “The novels, complete and unabridged, of Victor Hugo”

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• I must be besotted,” he said evenly. “I have the imbecilic idea that you’re the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen. Except for your coiffure,” he added, with a disgusted glance at the coils and plumes and pearls. “That is ghastly.” She scowled. “Your romantic effusions leave me breathless.

  Loretta Chase

  Girl, Ideas, Pearls

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• Like a dart the present glances,
  Silent stands the past sublime.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Time, Past, Sublime

  Friedrich Schiller, Edgar Alfred BOWRING (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete ... Attempted in English by E. A. Bowring”, p.259

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• I have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you. I have made my body strong because I thought you might be pleased by a strong body. I have lived my life with only the prayer that some sudden dawn you might glance in my direction. I have not known a moment in years when the sight of you did not send my heart careening against my rib cage. I have not known a night when your visage did not accompany me to sleep. There has not been a morning when you did not flutter behind my waking eyelids.

  William Goldman

  Strong, Morning, Prayer

  "The Princess Bride". Book by William Goldman, www.cnn.com. 1973.

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• When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her vow.

  Tamora Pierce

  Vow, Force, Tempted

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.258, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familiar. The fact that we were in front of hundreds of strangers changed nothing at all. I'd spent a summer with those same eyes-scared, lost, confused-staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere.

  Sarah Dessen

  Summer, Confused, Eye

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “Just Listen: A Novel”, Viking Childrens Books

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• Every time somebody on the internet sort of glances at us sideways, we launch an attack at them. That's not going to work out for us long term, and the U.S. have to get ahead of the problem if we're going to succeed.

  Edward Snowden

  Long, Work Out, Succeed

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The federal government said today they've begun training sessions for airport security workers to provide what they call more customer satisfaction to the travels, they want to make it easier for us. They're instructing security guards to glance at your luggage tags so that they can call you by your first name. Isn't that creepy? The guy touching your wife, calling her by her first name.

  Jay Leno

  Names, Airports, Government

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• Thy dangerous glances
  make women of men;
  new-born, we are melting
  into nature again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Men, Melting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.118, Delphi Classics

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• Who of us would not be glad to lift the veil behind which the future lies hidden; to cast a glance at the next advances of
  our science and at the secrets of its development during future centuries? What particular goals will there be toward
  which the leading mathematical spirits of coming generations will strive? What new methods and new facts in the
  wide and rich field of mathematical thought will the new centuries disclose?

  David Hilbert

  Lying, Goal, Secret

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• An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancyfor building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Islands, Imagination, Mysterious

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.243, Princeton University Press

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• Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.

  Walter Raleigh

  Light, Pops, Artillery

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• Holy fu-" he starts then catches himself."Yes,this tithe will be most pleasing to her Goodness." Me and Magnus exchange amused glances.

  Mari Mancusi

  Goodness, Holy, Tithe

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• But you begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and self-judging, it has no reason to exist at all - or is not even possible. The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.

  Philip Guston

  Art, Self, Judging

  'ARTnews Annual', Artnews Associates., October 1966.

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• When the measured dance of the hours brings back the happy smile of spring, the buried dead is born again in the life-glance of the sun. The germs which perished to the eye within the cold breast of the earth spring up with joy in the bright realm of day.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spring, Eye, Joy

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• One glance and I knew exactly who and what he was. The classic alpha male, the kind who had spurred evolution forward about five million years ago by nailing every female in sight. They charmed, seduced, and behaved like bastards, and yet women were biologically incapable of resisting their magic DNA.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Sight, Dna, Years

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.198, St. Martin's Press

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