From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.

She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.

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

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.

I've been telling people that 'Hamilton' is very much a glimpse of what it's like to be inside Lin's brain.

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

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

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

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

Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?

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

You are not a country, Africa. You are a concept… You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the infinite.

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

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

Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?

When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine.

If we look in the right places at the right times, we can begin to glimpse America's vast intelligence infrastructure.

Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself.

We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.

Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion.

If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.

Happiness isn't a constant. You get fleeting glimpses. You have to fight for those moments, but they make it all worth it.

Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.

Great. Just great. One glimpse of his body and I have a full-blown crush. I honestly thought I was a bit deeper than that.

Normally when I have students over, we sit in the house and look at the fields to try to catch a glimpse of a bobcat hunting.

I have a naive trust in the universe - that at some level it all makes sense, and we can get glimpses of that sense if we try.

Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side.

It was so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of before.

Foreigners have no idea of the diversity of India and its culture. We hope to be able to give them a glimpse of that diversity.

The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.

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.

The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.

I see how loving my parents are toward each other, toward my family and toward me. And that's just a glimpse of Jesus' love for us.

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?

Finishing is torture... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it.

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

It's an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history-as well as a rare glimpse into the soul of the hardcore geek

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.

When I come clean about my brokenness, others catch glimpses of how the real grace of a real God works in the messy life of a real person.

...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.

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.

Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.

--"There is no justice in love...it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality... the eternal breaking in on the the temporal.

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.

Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

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.

The opposite of a glance... is a glimpse: because in a glance, we see only for a second, and in a glimpse, the object shows itself only for a second.

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