quotes about Gleam
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I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution , where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment... only to vanish forever.
-- Alan Watts -
In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable smile.
-- Alfred Austin -
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
They cant censor the gleam in my eye.
-- Charles LaughtonSource : 1934 Of his role of Mr Barrett in The Barretts of Wimpole Street.
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There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.
-- Eva HoffmanSource : Eva Hoffman (2014). “Exit into History: A Journey through the New Eastern Europe”, p.113, Faber & Faber
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Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught
-- Frances Ridley HavergalSource : Frances Ridley Havergal (1872). “The Ministry of Song”, p.1
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(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.
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Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you're young and in your prime, whatever your actual age.
-- Helen Fisher -
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It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid.
-- Howard HodgkinSource : "Howard Hodgkin: the Later, Greater Hodgkin". Interview with Karen Wright, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 05, 2008.
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(H)ope, be it never so faint, bringeth a gleam into darkness, like a little rushlight that costeth but a groat.
-- Howard PyleSource : Howard Pyle (2015). “The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood”, p.163, Booklassic
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My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
-- Kabir -
There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of the proposition will not hold true.--We are so made, that from the common gratifications of our appetites, and the impressions of a thousand objects, we snatch the one, like a transient gleam, without being suffered to taste the other.
-- Laurence Sterne -
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I felt freed to please myself, to find my way as I would, in a world that was much vaster than I had realized before, in which I was but one star-gleam, one wavelet, among multitudes. My happiness mattered not a whit more than the next person's - or the next fish's, or the next grass-blade's! - and not a whit less.
-- Margo Lanagan -
I loathe the urchin's cruelty to the cat, but I will not loathe the urchin. I loathe Hitler's mass-torturing, but not Hitler; and the money-man's heartlessness, but not the man. I love the swallow's flight, and I love the swallow; the urchin's gleam of tenderness, and the urchin.
-- Olaf StapledonSource : "An Olaf Stapledon Reader" by by Olaf Stapledon, Syracuse University Press, New York, (pp. 266-272), 1997.
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As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.
-- Torquato TassoSource : Torquato Tasso (1802). “Jerusalem Delivered: An Heroic Poem”, p.224
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A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.
-- Walter de La Mare -
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It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.
-- William Manchester -
A dreamer of the common dreams, A fisher in familiar streams, He chased the transitory gleams That all pursue; But on his lips the eternal themes Again were new.
-- William WatsonSource : Sir William Watson, John Alfred Spender (1905). “The Poems of William Watson”