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• You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.

  Judith Martin

  Real, Giving, Attention

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• Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Desire, Pleasure, Venus In Furs

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• I used to dream
  I used to glance beyond the stars
  Now I don't know where we are
  although I know we've drifted far
  What about yesterday
  What about the seas
  The heavens are falling down
  I can't even breathe
  What about the bleeding Earth
  Can't we feel its wounds
  What about nature's worth?
  It's our planet's womb.

  Michael Jackson

  Dream, Stars, Fall

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• By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Firsts, Appearance

  "A Trivial Incident". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1886.

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• No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.

  Nancy Thayer

  Broken Heart, Girl, Boys

  Nancy Thayer (2014). “Morning”, p.47, Ballantine Books

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• Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

  Harriet Martineau

  Love, Marriage, Men

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.168

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• Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Health, Inspire, Relaxation

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• You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't stare.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Lines, Rooms, Needs

  FaceBook post by Jenny McCarthy from Mar 02, 2012

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• I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves.

  George W. Bush

  Moving, People, News

  "White House Insiders". www.washingtonpost.com. May 13, 2004.

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• The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

  Mary Webb

  Past, Tomorrow, Invisible

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• Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

  Walter Benjamin

  Historical, Events, World

  "Protocols to the Experiments on Hashish, Opium and Mescaline". Book by Walter Benjamin, 1997.

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• The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.

  George Crumb

  Gestures, Easy, Retrospective

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• The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances.

  Steve Buscemi

  Roles, Firsts, Parting

  "New Again: Steve Buscemi". Interview with Brooke Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2017.

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• I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

  Jean Rostand

  Thinking, Different, Appearance

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• 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.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Loss, Different, Firsts

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• 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

  Funny, Farewell, Sight

  Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.44, Nellie Bly

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• If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Travel, Istanbul, Cities

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• There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

  John Muir

  Nature, Flower, Power

  John Muir (2010). “The Wilderness Journeys”, Canongate Books

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• My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

  Erma Bombeck

  Ideas, Rooms, Cleaning

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• Woman - for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: "Blind yourself, for I am blind."

  Luigi Pirandello

  Women, Eye, Example

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.19, Jester House Publishing via PublishDrive

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• There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Hatred, Cry

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.14

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• Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,And Thy pierced feet I clasp;Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;On me, with compassion fraught,Let Thy glances fall.Thy cross of agony,My Beloved, look on me;Turn me wholly unto Thee;"Be thou whole," say openly:"I forgive thee all.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Jesus, Fall, Compassion

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• I used to dream. I used to glance beyond the stars. Now I don't know where we are
  Although I know we've drifted far!

  Michael Jackson

  Dream, Stars, Used

  Song: Earth Inconsolable Song

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• And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.

  Matthew Arnold

  Sight, Soul, Hustle

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• There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

  George Eliot

  Peace, Morning, Pain

  "Felix Holt, the Radical". Book by George Eliot. Introductory chapter, 1866.

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