Gleam Quotes

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.

As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.

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.

If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way.

My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.

In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.

There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

They cant censor the gleam in my eye.

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.

(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.

Launch your vessel,
And crowd your canvas,
And,
ere it vanishes Over the margin,
After it,
follow it,
FollowThe Gleam.

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.

For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado.

There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.

What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?

Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you're young and in your prime, whatever your actual age.

Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught

In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable smile.

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.

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.

It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid.

The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.

Last year's troubles, They shine up so prettily, They gleam with a lustre they don't have today.

Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams.

(H)ope, be it never so faint, bringeth a gleam into darkness, like a little rushlight that costeth but a groat.

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.

Einstein is loved because he is gentle, respected because he is wise. Relativity being not for most of us, we elevate its author to a position somewhere between Edison, who gave us a tangible gleam, and God, who gave us the difficult dark and the hope of penetrating it.