Glimpse Quotes

Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle.

...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.

I'm not very good at working for other people. I mostly make pictures because of some whim. With luck, I get a glimpse of something, and then it turns into an adventure, and then into a project.

I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.

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

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.

[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.

Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal.

All the marvels of nature are glimpses of His divine power and expressions of His love.

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.

it is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one short glimpse of the horizon.

Love - not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.

Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.

I'd walked too close to heaven and gotten a glimpse. The hell I'd lived before her no longer appealed to me.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.

Addiction struggle is believing you are separate from love. It took me a long time to glimpse that.

There are places on earth where we can catch a glimpse of heaven.

It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.

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.

It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.

The enjoyment that comes from our acts of kindness give us a glimpse of the world that might be, hopefully our future world. Good natured, friendly, human.

As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent.

If our young people could but glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives!

Coincidences are glimpses in to the creative mind of the universe.

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

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.

My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken away, forever.

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.

Our memory of dreams is a glimpse of the full spiritual life that each of us leads beyond the physical.

Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils.

Sadoway does more than entertain; he gives you a glimpse into the future of energy.

For me, it is important to not just tell the audience how the story ended today, but to give a glimpse into how other people's stories might go on, in the future.

It was while starting my business that I saw my first glimpse of government's impact on business.

Like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone.

I hated the mirror and avoided it as much as I could. A glimpse would only remind me: I'll never be normal again.

Here is another marvy glimpse into the gothic basement that I call my mind.

Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.

Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.

It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

You’ve only had a small glimpse of how insufferable and annoying I can be. As the older brother, it’s my birthright.

Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way.

Maybe you saw her first? Caught a glimpse between the lines, between the letters, like a ghost in the mirror, a ghost in the wings?

When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

Haiti allowed us to glimpse into a future of what disaster response might look like in a hyper-connected world.

Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, 'Be happy! Look, I have done it.' And immediately the contact is lost.

Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist.

We have our whole lives to try and get a glimpse of what that could be, in our own life. It's so exciting.

Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.