Quotes and Sayings About Glimpse
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I'd walked too close to heaven and gotten a glimpse. The hell I'd lived before her no longer appealed to me.
-- Abbi Glines -
We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
-- Abraham Maslow -
As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.
-- Alexander Smith -
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
You are not a country, Africa. You are a concept… You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the infinite.
-- Ali Mazrui -
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Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.
-- Anaxagoras -
There are places on earth where we can catch a glimpse of heaven.
-- Anthony D. Williams -
The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.
-- Anthony StorrSource : Anthony Storr (2005). “Solitude: A Return to the Self”, p.61, Simon and Schuster
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We were created for the purpose of giving God's invisible character a glimpse of visibility.
-- Beth Moore -
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The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred
-- C. S. Lewis -
The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.
-- Daniel Nathans -
In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.
-- David RakoffSource : David Rakoff (2005). “Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems”, p.222, Anchor
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In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe. If we alow ourselves to be enchanted by the beauty of the ordinary, we begin to see that all things extraordinary.
-- Dean Koontz -
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Coincidences are glimpses in to the creative mind of the universe.
-- Deepak Chopra -
I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.
-- Eben AlexanderSource : "Proof Of Heaven: A Doctor’s Experience With The Afterlife". www.newsweek.com. October 8, 2012.
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Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.
-- Edgar Mitchell -
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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 -
I would do violence for one glimpse of your naked breasts. Bleed for one taste of your nipple on my tongue. (Winter Makepeace)
-- Elizabeth Hoyt -
How odd, to suddenly glimpse a facet of me I didn't know existed. I guess it really isn't all that unusual to surprise oneself with an ugly bit of ego.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
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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 -
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 -
If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.
-- H. G. Wells -
It often takes catching a glimpse of how our life would be without something that's valuable to us for us to realize just how valuable it is.
-- Hal Elrod -
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Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes -
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen HayesSource : Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.