quotes about Glowing
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
-- Alexander Pope -
Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there He can renew us.
-- Amy Carmichael -
There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.
-- Andrew Greeley -
I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.
-- Ann Beattie -
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Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace things; hidden and yet burning and glowing continually if you care to look with purged eyes.
-- Arthur MachenSource : "The London Adventure". Book by Arthur Machen, p.25, 1924.
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Yet this is the watch by night. Let us all accept new strength, and real tenderness. And at dawn, armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory.
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
Thou art moist and soft clay; thou must instantly be shaped by the glowing wheel. [Lat., Udum et molle lutum es: nunc, nunc properandus et acri Fingendus sine fine rota.]
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus -
Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.
-- Ben Hecht -
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Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
-- Black Elk -
The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.
-- Brandi Chastain -
Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds you lay on, but also those desires glowing openly in eyes that looked at you, trembling for you in voices.
-- C.P. CavafySource : C. P. Cavafy (2015). “Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy”, p.39, Princeton University Press
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The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.
-- Catherine Helen SpenceSource : Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria
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I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.
-- Cathy Guisewite -
Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.
-- Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniSource : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1997). “The Mistress of Spices”, Doubleday
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With every glance I take in the 'negative-positive' of existence and the inevitability of impermanence to its glowing limits. Alone and haunted, I trust my inner eye, the heart. Everything, absolutely everything, becomes visible. Appearances, disappearances, nothing seems of secondary importance to me.
-- Christophe Agou -
The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who's happy to do that for him.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
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Ever at Thy glowing altar Must my heart grow sick and falter, Wishing He I served were black.
-- Countee CullenSource : 1925 On These I Stand,'Heritage'.
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Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.
-- Criss Jami -
Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years. And for this reason, some old things are lovely warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
The person who lives life fully, glowing with life’s energy, is the person who lives a successful life.
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
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I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.
-- David Brainerd -
Relationships are not about how two people can survive each other but about how the whole world becomes more capable of love, with all its dim anguish and glowing rapture.
-- David Richo -
I had let want in, opened the door ever so slightly. But want without the belief you can get what you want is pointless. You have to hope, so I let that in too. You have to. To want things and go for them and believe, even in impossible situations...Hope was what you had when you had nothing else. Hope was the perfect shiny top on the Christmas tree, the glowing halo of every wish, the endless beacon of a lighthouse bringing tormented ships home at last.
-- Deb Caletti -
I am a big foodie, so much so that I eat in every half an hour. This is the secret of my glowing skin.
-- Deepika PadukoneSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
-- Ed Miliband -
Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.
-- Edward Everett -
The next generation of women will enter a world in which they are perceived to have more opportunities for creating fulfilling lives than women have ever had before.
-- Elizabeth DeboldSource : Elizabeth Debold, Marie C. Wilson, Idelisse Malavé (1993). “Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power”, Da Capo Press
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It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.
-- Etta James -
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If you go to the city of Washington, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of congress, and mis-representatives of the masses claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad that I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.
-- Eugene V. DebsSource : Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.
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I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.
-- Fergie -
Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.
-- Florence Ellinwood Allen -
I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.
-- Franz Liszt -
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Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened.
-- Fritz KreislerSource : Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.36, Pickle Partners Publishing
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Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.
-- George B. McClellan -
Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect.
-- Giordano Bruno -
How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.
-- Grace Noll CrowellSource : Grace Noll Crowell, “Thank You Friend”
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Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.
-- Gregory Maguire -
It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.
-- Gwyneth Paltrow -
Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves.... The promise of gold and crimson is there among the branches, though as yet it is achieved on only a stray branch, an impatient limb or an occasional small tree which has not yet learned to time its changes.
-- Hal Borland -
What I saw was just one eye In the dawn as I was going: A bird can carry all the sky In that little button glowing. Never in my life I went So deep into the firmament.
-- Harold MonroSource : Harold Monro, “The Bird At Dawn”
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The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph and not a sadness. It is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire feature film with my camera. I could already picture the projection screen making itself visible as a white rectangle. In my imagination, this would appear as a glowing, white rectangle; it would come forward from the projection surface and illuminate the entire theater. This idea struck me as being very interesting, mysterious, and even religious.
-- Hiroshi Sugimoto -
I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.
-- Hugh Shelton -
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When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.
-- Ian Frazier -
We also told her you weren't a serial killer," Brit interjected. Cam nodded. "That's a glowing recommendation. Hey, at least he's not a serial killer. I'm going to put that on my Facebook profile.
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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
-- Jack KerouacSource : Jack Kerouac (1971). “The Dharma Bums”, p.138, Penguin
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Do I feel ancient to you now?" he murmered. "Too different from the person you loved before you knew this?" Her eyes were already glowing green, and her full lips parted. "No, you don't feel too ancient." Her voice was husky. "Or too different. You feel like mine. Whoever you were, whoever you are...you're mine." Mencheres smiled, his fangs stretching to their full length. "So you have spoken, so it shall be decreed. For all eternity.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
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Dad has, and had, a deservedly glowing reputation. However, this belief in 'reputation first' seems to have given rise to his fears of what might be rumored after his death.
-- Jennifer GrantSource : Jennifer Grant (2011). “Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant”, p.7, Knopf
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So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.
-- Jewel -
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
-- Jim Morrison -
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Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.
-- Jim WoodringSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of beauty. To gaze with rapture at the stars That in the skies are glowing; To see the gems of perfect dye That in the woods are growing, And more than sage astronomer, And more than learned florist, To read the glorious homilies Of Firmament and Forest.
-- John Godfrey SaxeSource : John Godfrey Saxe (1866). “The Masquerade: and other poems”, p.25
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Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.
-- John Milton -
Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with the red amp lights glowing, the flashlight that shows each performer the way to his spot on the stage. It's crucial not to blow it. It sets the tempo of the show; it affects everyone's perception of the band.
-- Johnny RamoneSource : Johnny Ramone (2012). “Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone”, p.50, Abrams
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This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.
-- Joseph Brodsky -
I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.
-- Judy Davis -
You are... you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before.
-- Juliet Marillier -
The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.
-- Karl JaspersSource : "Existentialism from Dostoyevsky to Sartre". Book by Larry Walter Kaufmann, 1956.
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Give me a hot coal glowing bright red, Give me an ember sizzling with heat, These are the jewels made from my beak. We fly between the flames and never get singed We plunge through the smoke and never cringe. The secrets of fire, its strange winds, its rages, We know it all as it rampages Through forests, through canyons, Up hillsides and down. We track it. We'll find it. Take coals by the pound. We'll yarp in the heart of the hottest flame Then bring back its coals an make them tame. For we are the colliers brave and beyond all We are the owls of the colliering chaw!
-- Kathryn Lasky -
No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing.
-- Kelly MillerSource : Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights: An Intensely Human and Brilliant Account of the World War; why American Entered the Conflict; what the Allies Fought For; and a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...”
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I love Dior products. They have this Capture Totale One Essential Skin Boosting Super Serum that gives you fresh, glowing, dewy skin.
-- Keshia Knight Pulliam -
Gorgeous, glowing rays of light...This was what true beauty and goodness looked like-- a spectral, luminescent gathering of beings so pure it hurt to look directly at them, like the most glorious eclipse, or maybe Heaven itself.
-- Lauren Kate -
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This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation.
-- Lee H. Hamilton -
You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.
-- Leopold von Sacher-MasochSource : Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.57, Cosimo Classics
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Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.
-- Lois WyseSource : Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.39, Harmony
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The sun was bobbing on the horizon, just peeking over. Its light shimmered on the sand behind you, making your body look like it was glowing … like it had a kind of aura.
-- Lucy Christopher -
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Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. ... The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.
-- Lydia M. Child -
They rode out together from the shadows of the trees, leaving the Bala Hissar and the glowing torch of the burning Residency behind them, and spurred away across the flat lands towards the mountains... And it may even be that they found their Kingdom.
-- M.M. Kaye -
What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?
-- Max Muller -
You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you something - it is true.
-- Melina Mercouri -
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We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.
-- Michael BerrymanSource : Interview with Vyeto Malesh, marsdust.net. January 22, 2017.
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Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?
-- N.K. Jemisin -
Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries -- all living sentient creatures.
-- Paramahansa Yogananda -
And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest, Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast, Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air, The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley -
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Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a moment of perfect transparency, before dropping again to a moment of everyday simplicity.
-- Peter Brook -
I'm glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I've been in a cave of music for months and months and months.
-- Phil Anselmo -
Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.
-- Plato -
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
-- Quentin Crisp -
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That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.
-- Richard Schickel -
If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones.
-- Ricky Gervais -
You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.
-- Rob Zombie -
Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from the Cape to the Lakes of the Nile. Here we came about-slowly, ever so slowly-on a sky-swept savannah glowing with menace.
-- Robert ArdreySource : ROBERT ARDREY (1961). “AFRICAN GENISIS”
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We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast.
-- Robert Crippen -
I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.
-- Robert MacNeilSource : "Journalist Robert MacNeil: 'Looking For My Country'". Interview With Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. May 16, 2003.
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Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. "Tuff enough," he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on Johnny Cade.
-- S. E. Hinton -
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
-- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -
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Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent reading, the feel and smell of the old blanket or toy, the nightlight glowing in a corner.
-- Siri Hustvedt -
When I first got started in the late '70s, early '80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly.
-- Steve Case -
The rat turned his glowing eyes on him, and Gregor was shocked by what he saw there. The intelligence, the deadliness, and, most surprisingly, the pain. This rat was not like Fangor and Shed. He was much more complicated and much more dangerous. For the first time in the Underland, Gregor felt completely out of his league. If he fought this rat, he wouldn't stand a change. He would lose. He would be dead.
-- Suzanne Collins -
Beetee is still messing round the tree, doing I don't know what. At one point he snaps off a sliver of bark, joins us, and throws it against the force field. It bounces back and lands on the ground, glowing. In a few moments it returns to its original color. "Well, that explains a lot," says Beetee. I look at Peeta and can't help biting my lip to keep from laughing since it explains absolutely nothing to anyone but Beetee.
-- Suzanne Collins -
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The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences.
-- Teresa de LauretisSource : Teresa De Lauretis (1984). “Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema”, p.119, Indiana University Press
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She stood breast-high amid the corn Clasp'd by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who many a glowing kiss had won.
-- Thomas Hood -
It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.
-- Tom Brokaw -
It was many years ago that I got out of a crewtruck in the national forest and ran toward a large glowing object hovering in the darkening Arizona sky. But when I made that fateful choice to leavethe truck, I was leaving behind more than just my six fellow workmen. I was leaving behind forever all semblance of a normal life, running headlong toward an experience so overwhelmingly mind-rending in its effects, so devastating in itsaftermath, that my life would never—could never  — be the same again.
-- Travis Walton -
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I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
-- Virginia Woolf -
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
-- Walter LippmannSource : Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.233, Harvard University Press
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Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.
-- Washington Irving -
You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball size chunks flying off behind us. It was an eerie feeling, like being a gnat inside a blowtorch flame.
-- William Anders -