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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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