Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal.
I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.
Studying the behavior of large whales has been likened to astronomy. The observer glimpses his subjects, often at long range; he cannot do experiments, and he must continually try to infer from data that are usually inadequate.
Even in the losses, I always saw glimpses of something that kept me going.
(There is) art that states the problems of society and wakes people up to make changes in their lives or in their communities,. . . art that offers an alternative, that demonstrates human behavior that can become a model for creativity, cooperation, freedom and playfulness, and. . . art that in itself provides glimpses of a larger consciousness or reflects upon the inexplicable.
Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole.
Men of vision caught glimpses of truth and beauty shining aloft like stars: and in these glimpses was a new hope for the unification of mankind through enlightenment.
We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds, glimpses of his image.
Glimpses is dead-on about the high and tight nineties even as it reaches out for the sweet hereafter of the sixties. It longs for something better, and finds it, I guess, as much as anything is ever found anymore. It's a mean, sweet, wry, and disturbing book, in equal portions.
You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you.
Finishing is torture. . . There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it.
If I should be fated to walk no more with Nature, be compelled to leave all I most devoutly love in the wilderness, return to civilization and be twisted into the characterless cable of society, then these sweet, free, cumberless rovings will be as chinks and slits on life's horizon, through which I may obtain glimpses of the treasures that lie in God's wilds beyond my reach.
The light of the dawn is not so sweet as the first glimpses of fame.
I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.
The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.
Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.
But the summits of poetry are mysteries; they are shiftingly veiled, and those who catch the glimpses see different aspects of the transcendental; but they have seen something, and they come down with the glory lingering on them.
All the marvels of nature are glimpses of His divine power and expressions of His love.
