Gleam Quotes - Page 2

• But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.

  Haruki Murakami

  Morning, Loneliness, Book

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jan 01, 2017

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• Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Christmas, Xmas, Real

  "Chicken soup for the soul Christmas treasury for kids" by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, Irene Dunlap, HCI, (p. 1), 2002.

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• A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.

  Agnes Repplier

  Strong, Writing, Careers

  Agnes Repplier (1895). “Essays in Miniature”

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• If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way.

  C. S. Lewis

  Trying, Way, Worried

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.127, HarperCollins UK

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• Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Christmas, Xmas, Mind

  "Bill O'Reilly: The War on Christmas: The big picture" by Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. November 29, 2012.

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• Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Song, Stars

  "Les misérables".

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• Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don't expose it to the elements. You don't make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.

  F. Burton Howard

  Love, Family, Marriage

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• They cant censor the gleam in my eye.

  Charles Laughton

  Eye, Censorship, Cant

  1934 Of his role of Mr Barrett in The Barretts of Wimpole Street.

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• No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Real, Perfect, Crucible

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• Einstein is loved because he is gentle, respected because he is wise. Relativity being not for most of us, we elevate its author to a position somewhere between Edison, who gave us a tangible gleam, and God, who gave us the difficult dark and the hope of penetrating it.

  E. B. White

  Wise, Dark, Tangible

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• The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its way down to the roots of the trees.

  James F. Cooper

  Sunshine, Past, Roots

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• Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Crowds, Canvas, Margins

  'Merlin and The Gleam' (1889) st. 9

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• May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one aspiration yet unfelt; one bit of courage for the darkening sky; one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life; one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists - to make this life worthwhile.

  George Eliot

  Sky, Brave, Grace

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• When thou are not pleased, beloved, Then my heart is sad and darkened, As the shining river darkens When the clouds drop shadows on it! When thou smilest, my beloved, Then my troubled heart is brightened, As in sunshine gleam the ripples That the cold wind makes in rivers.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Sunshine, Clouds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.389, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The saddest day has gleams of light, The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it. There twinkles o'er the cloudiest night, Some solitary star to cheer it.

  Sarah Winnemucca

  Stars, Cheer, Night

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• When you speak of heaven, let your face light up; let it be irradiated by a heavenly gleam; let your eyes shine with reflected glory. But when you speak of hell, your ordinary expression will do.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Eye, Light, Expression

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• How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Dream, Time

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.276, Penguin

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• All experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Moving, Forever, Experience

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• High in the air rises the forest of oaks, high over the oaks soar the eagle, high over the eagle sweep the clouds, high over the clouds gleam the stars... high over the stars sweep the angels.

  Heinrich Heine

  Stars, Angel, Clouds

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.212

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• And there, row upon row, with the soft gleam of flowers opened at morning, with the light of this June sun glowing through a faint skin of dust, would stand the dandelion wine. Peer through it at the wintry day - the snow melted to grass, the trees were reinhabitated with bird, leaf, and blossoms like a continent of butterflies breathing on the wind. And peering through, color sky from iron to blue. Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in

  Ray Bradbury

  Summer, Morning, Children

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Dandelion Wine”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• a connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of this night when souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness,noting the fatal flight of worlds whereto this earth’s a hurled dream down eager avenues of lifelessness consider for how much themselves shall gleam, in the poised radiance of perpetualness. When what’s in velvet beyond doomed thought is like a woman amorous to be known; and man,whose here is alway worse than naught, feels the tremendous yonder for his own— on such a night the sea through her blind miles of crumbling silence seriously smiles

  e. e. cummings

  Dream, Night, Men

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• The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;- on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.

  Matthew Arnold

  Lying, Moon, Light

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.416, Delphi Classics

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• Why do I always have to be the one who says 'stop'?" I demanded, my voice little more than a moan. "You don't. In fact, at this point I'm considering a petition to that word stricken from the English language." His grin was almost lazy, the gleam in his eyes an effortless challenge. "If I did, would you sign?

  Rachel Vincent

  Eye, Voice, Challenges

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, June 26, 2012.

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• A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.

  Agnes Repplier

  Cat, Eye, Animal

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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• There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Dark, Clouds, Rivers

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1045, Wordsworth Editions

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