Quotes by Gleam In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable smile. Alfred Austin gleam vain faces Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam. Alfred Lord Tennyson gleam canvas crowds What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns? Alfred Lord Tennyson gleam ants sun 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. Antoine de Saint-Exupery gleam desert silence 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. C. S. Lewis gleam trying way They cant censor the gleam in my eye. Charles Laughton gleam censorship eye 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. E. B. White gleam wise dark There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face. Eva Hoffman gleam humor faces 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. Evelyn Waugh gleam easter art Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught Frances Ridley Havergal radiance gleam caught (Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust. Gustave Flaubert gleam egypt dust Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you're young and in your prime, whatever your actual age. Helen Fisher gleam age hair The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts. Haruki Murakami gleam heart memories It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid. Howard Hodgkin gleam eye long (H)ope, be it never so faint, bringeth a gleam into darkness, like a little rushlight that costeth but a groat. Howard Pyle gleam darkness littles My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky. Kabir gleam lightning sky 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. Laurence Sterne gleam taste happiness 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. Margo Lanagan gleam stars world For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado. Mason Cooley gleam bottles towers 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. Olaf Stapledon gleam cat men 12»