Glimpse Quotes

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  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

  Dream, Inspiration, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

  Anaxagoras

  Unseen, Appearance

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• When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.

  Zig Ziglar

  Passion, Born

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• Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Forgotten

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

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• A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.

  John Updike

  Photograph, Abyss, Offers

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• Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

  Helen Hayes

  Love, Engagement, Eternity

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• For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Heart, Brain, Caught

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2011). “The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.140, House of Stratus

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• The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Artist

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• Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls, and through those holes we can get a glimpse of the other and sometimes even like what we see.

  Elif Safak

  Wall, Stories, Sometimes

  "The politics of fiction". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• 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

  Hints, Life Is, Moments

  Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

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• Content is a glimpse.

  Willem de Kooning

  Vision, Awe, Seeing

  Willem De Kooning (2001). “Willem De Kooning: Vellums : March 21-April 21, 2001”, Mitchell-Inness & Nash

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• Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning.

  Sarah

  Art, Regret, Thinking

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• 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

  Love, Beauty, Time

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

  Robert Quillen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Faith

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• A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.

  C. S. Lewis

  Night, Men, Feet

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963”, p.106, HarperCollins UK

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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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• You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you.

  Kenneth Oppel

  Fire, Littles, Sun

  Kenneth Oppel (2012). “Such Wicked Intent: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, Book Two”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• When we talk about ourselves, about others, or simply about things, we want- it could be said – to reveal ourselves in our words: We want to show what we think and feel. We let other have a glimpse into our soul.

  Pascal Mercier

  Thinking, Soul, Our Words

  Pascal Mercier (2008). “Night Train to Lisbon”

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• The opposite of a glance... is a glimpse: because in a glance, we see only for a second, and in a glimpse, the object shows itself only for a second.

  James Elkins

  Opposites, Glances, Shows

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• If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.

  Octavio Paz

  Thank You, Gratitude, Water

  Octavio Paz (1990). “Búsqueda Del Presente”, Harcourt

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• Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people. The beauties of nature or the exhilaration of artistic creation does it for others. Probably any high experience may momentarily stretch our souls up on tiptoe, so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous beauty which is always there, but which we are not often tall enough to perceive.

  Margaret Prescott Montague

  Beauty, Falling In Love, Eye

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• We were created for the purpose of giving God's invisible character a glimpse of visibility.

  Beth Moore

  Character, Giving, Purpose

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• I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.11, Broadway Books

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• 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

  Eye, Long, Use

  George Berkeley (1871). “Life and letters”, p.297

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• There is only one terminal dignity - love.

  Helen Hayes

  Love, Dignity, Terminal

  Guideposts, January 1960.

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