Top 552 Glance Quotes & Sayings

I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.

We need to glance at our problems and stare at Jesus!

The sidelong glance is what you depend on.

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.

Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can.

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.

the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.

Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.

Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are not used to seeking for first principles. Those, on the other hand, who are accustomed to reason from first principles do not understand matters of feeling at all, because they look for first principles and are unable to comprehend at a glance.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

Look how the blue-eyed violets glance love to one another.

Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools.

The glance of Love is crystal clear.

You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.

A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.

The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder. The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will. It is the bodily symbol of identity with nature. We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes will not lie, but make a faithful confession what inhabitant is there.

There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we’re not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge.

Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it. If I wanted to detach completely, I would move my body away. I would stop the conversation midsentence. I would leave the bed. Instead, I hover over it for a second. I glance off in another direction. But I always glance back at you.

At first glance, there's a lot of sex on the Internet. Or not at first glance: nobody can find anything on the Internet at first glance.

The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance

We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here.

Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.

An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.

A backward glance can often lift the heart.

Women read each other at a single glance.

To brisk notes in cadence beating, glance their many-twinkling feet.

Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.

When you allow me to live with you, every glance at the world around you will be a sort of salvation.

No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.

One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.

She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.

You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

Growing up in a house of five girls, I couldn't help but glance at a fashion magazine or two.

Never look encouragingly at the brass, except with a short glance to give an important cue.

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

Spacewalking trumps everything. Viscerally, it is a phenomenal place to be; to be able to glance right and see the world, glance left and see the universe, and realise for a moment that you're holding on to your known existence with one hand. That's the thing.

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.

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.

For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

One single glance will conquer all descriptions.

Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being.

Glance backward, look heavenward, reach outward, press onward

In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance.

He can play that leg glance with a walking stick also.

A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.

You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't stare.

Glance is the enemy of vision.

The strong is not the one who can put on the blades at a glance, and the one who is able to raise a smile from his knees!

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

Life works better when we know how to glance at things but gaze at God.