Glimpse Quotes - Page 13

• The gospel is unintelligible to most people today, especially in the West, because their own particular stories are remote from the story of creation, fall, redemption, and consummation that is narrated in the Bible. Our focus is introspective and narrow, confided to our own immediate knowledge, experience, and intuition. Trying desperately to get others, including God, to make us happy, we cannot seem to catch a glimpse of the real story that gives us a meaningful role.

  Michael Horton

  Meaningful, Real, Fall

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• We are all cells of a much larger body, and like the cells of our own body it is hard for us to glimpse the whole pattern of the whole of what is happening, and yet we can sense that there is a purpose, and there is a pattern.

  Terence McKenna

  Cells, Purpose, Body

  "History Ends in Green". Terence McKenna's eight-hour lecture at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, 1989.

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• I travel as much as I do. It isn't the life I expected. I don't know what dust of pollen will come back with me from these travels.But I must trust that I will not treat frivolously the glimpses I've been given into other places and others' lives.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Dust, Given, Pollen

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• I wanted to give people a glimpse of my lifestyle and into the lifestyle of me and all my friends and all the people that I know. It's basically just coming up and going up. It's about growing up, elevating, chilling and vibing. And smoking. I wanted to make a piece of art that you could put on while you are hot boxing your car and riding around with your friends.

  Young De

  Art, Growing Up, Car

  Interview with Bill Rock, 411mania.com. January 25, 2015.

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• [Montesquieu] lifted the veil from the venerable errors which enslaved opinion, and pointed the way to those luminous truths of which he had but a glimpse himself.

  James Madison

  Errors, Veils, Way

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.474

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• I preferred that option, where my camera (and by proxy, me) could look them straight in the eye. The way they reacted to me was always interesting. Sometimes hard young men would reveal vulnerability and a softer side. In the case of teenage girls, I often got a fascinating glimpse of the woman inside.

  Derek Ridgers

  Girl, Teenage, Eye

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One story I've been trying to write for years, and haven't been able to finish, is about a face I saw, just a glimpse of a face, in a max security prison in North Carolina. I'm still trying to understand what I saw in that guy's face.

  Peter Orner

  Writing, Years, Guy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's another style of meditation that I've been doing since my mid-twenties. Tapping into your higher self to get a glimpse of yourself from the outside and get insight into what's going on in your life. I learned that from my godfather in my mid-twenties.

  India.Arie

  Self, Meditation, Style

  "The Legend, The Voice: India.Arie". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• After my family leaves in the morning, I'll make my first coffee of the day and then I head upstairs to go to work. At least, that's my plan. I'm not going to check email. I'm not going on Facebook, or sneaking a glimpse at my Instagram feed. No. I'm not going to down that road. But with multiple devices, by the time I get upstairs [to my study] I may well have heard my iPhone ding and - it's Pavlovian.

  Dani Shapiro

  Morning, Coffee, Iphone

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Politics can be very mean and dirty. The things politicians say about each other, and what activists say, I had a brief glimpse of that for a couple of days. If I ever had any questions about whether I wanted to run for office, I now know the answer - I don't.

  Matt Hasselbeck

  Running, Couple, Dirty

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• The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.

  David Attenborough

  Animal, Knowing, Trying

  "David Attenborough: 'I'm an essential evil'". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.

  Bill Murray

  Kids, Golf, Play

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• Prophets and artists tend to be liminal and marginal people, "edgemen," who strive with a passionate sincerity to rid themselves of the clichés associated with status incumbency and role-playing and to enter into vital relations with other men in fact or imagination. In their productions we may catch glimpses of that unused evolutionary potential in mankind which has not yet been externalized and fixed in structure.

  Victor Turner

  Men, Artist, People

  Victor Turner (1995). “The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure”, p.128, Transaction Publishers

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• The kinds of mystical experiences that I have had definitely convinced me that I was able to get out of time. I have had experiences, or brief glimpses, of being able to see the future and then come back into time, and then go into extraordinary realms of the past.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Past, Mystical Experiences, Able

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Glimpses is dead-on about the high and tight nineties even as it reaches out for the sweet hereafter of the sixties. It longs for something better, and finds it, I guess, as much as anything is ever found anymore. It's a mean, sweet, wry, and disturbing book, in equal portions.

  Frederick Barthelme

  Sweet, Book, Mean

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• Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.

  George Santayana

  Experience, Causes, Peepholes

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2003). “The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1933-1936. Vol. 5. Book 5”, MIT Press

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• Inspiration comes from books, music, films and of course, living memories and life experiences, my own and those of people I've known or met; the casual glimpse from the stranger or the life and death of the close relative; to breathe, for a moment, a Chekhovian air, it's all song and ice.

  Suhayl Saadi

  Song, Memories, Inspiration

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos. Make the smell of roast duck in an old kitchen diaphanous and you will have a glimpse of everything, from the spiral nebulae to Mozart's music and the stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi. The artistic problem is to produce diaphanousness in spots, selecting the spots so as to reveal only the most humanly significant of distant vistas behind the near familiar object.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Eye, Ducks

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• People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.

  Don DeLillo

  Art, People, Immortal

  Don DeLillo (2011). “The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories”, p.183, Pan Macmillan

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• Perhaps after all the most breathtaking quality about San Francisco is these unexpected glimpses that you are always getting of beautiful hill-heights and beautiful valley-depths. ... City lights, like nests of diamonds, glitter and glisten in the depths of those valleys.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Beautiful, Light, Cities

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• If [Sean] doesn't see me a few days or if I'm really, really busy, and I just sort of get a glimpse of him, or if I'm feeling depressed without him even seeing me, he sort of picks up on it. And he starts getting that way. So I can no longer afford to have artistic depressions. If I start wallowing in a depression, he'll start coming down with stuff, so I'm sort of obligated to keep up. And sometimes I can't, because something will make me depressed and sure as hell he'll get a cold or trap his finger in a door or something, and so now I have sort of more reason to stay healthy or bright.

  John Lennon

  Parenting, Doors, Healthy

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• You know, we have little bits of understanding, glimpses, a little bit of light here and there, but there's a tremendous amount of darkness, which is a challenge. I think life would be pretty boring if we understood everything. It's better if we don't understand anything and know that we don't, that's the important part.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Light, Challenges

  Interview in Cardiff, Wales, UK, March 11, 2011.

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• Entrepreneurship is a process, not a job or profession. So be faithful to the process and remember that even when times are bad, the process will give you a glimpse of the future that lies ahead.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Lying, Giving

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• One universe, four forces, billions of galaxies. The precision and complexity of our world is enough to make even the famous cosmologist go just a little bit crazy. How does it all fit together? Is there a single, overarching design to the cosmos? And if we find it, will we glimpse the mind of God?

  Morgan Freeman

  Crazy, Our World, Design

  "Morgan Freeman Takes You 'Through The Wormhole'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. June 1, 2010.

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• As a piece of travel literature alone, 'The Ends of the Earth' succeeds in providing a tangible sense of the sweaty, smelly reality of many exotic points on the map, with glimpses of their cruelty but also, occasionally, of beauty and human kindness. As a piece of analysis, it is deeply thought-provoking.

  Francis Fukuyama

  Kindness, Reality, Thought Provoking

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