Quotes of Gleam - somelinesforyou

“ There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. ”

- Washington Irving

“ We need to be confident. We need not to blink. ”

- Sebastian Coe

“ The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks,They are all fire and every one doth shine,But there's but one in all doth hold his place. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by a dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in a magnificient glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet… ”

- Jack London

“ There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. ”

- Washington Irving

“ I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal. ”

- Emily Bronte

“ Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows. ”

- David Grayson

“ How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. ”

- Walter Benjamin

“ The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights. ”

- Henry Jacobsen

“ Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark, A moving radiance twinkles. ”

- James Thomson

“ She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes. ”

- Frank Deford

“ How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like — like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways. ”

- John Masefield

“ Seen through the glow of a building orgasm, a woman seems to blaze with angelic glory. ”

- Larry Niven

“ The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations. ”

- Franz Liszt

“ And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. ”

- Bible

“ Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts. ”

- Andrew Young

“ Though they did not kiss, / Yet still between his Darkness and his Brightness / There passed a mutual glance of great politeness. ”

- Lord Byron

“ If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull. ”

- W. C. Fields

“ Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is. ”

- Mae West

“ She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. ”

- James Thurber

“ Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness. ”

- Hannah More

“ How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Life is a little gleam of time between two eternities. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ The saddest day hath gleams of light; The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it; The twinkles o'er the cloudiest night; Some solitary star to cheer it. ”

- Sarah Winnemucca
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