Top 1200 Shards Of Glass Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on October 15, 2024.
Grace is having a commitment to- or at least an acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish. That our bottled charm is the main roadblock to drinking that clear cool glass of love.
The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.
A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
You should get a glass stomach. That way you won't have to worry about pulling your head out of your ass!
I drink this [whiskey glass] and I'm just another JBL? you don't get it, I'm not like you. I'm not JBL, I'm CM Punk! Sometimes it's what you don't do that makes you who you are.
Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.
I've always tried to find a silver lining. I've always been a glass is half-full kind of person.
They used to have a smoking section at most airports. No more. They now have these glass-encased rooms. You're not just a smoker, you're an example to other people. You're an exhibit at a futuristic zoo.
A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.
It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is an instance of aggrandized reflection that insinuates the human psyche to the inhuman.
Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.
What if all tomorrow brings is ashes and glass, and I can't tell you child, 'this too shall pass.' If all the world were windswept, cold and gray. And in the end there's nothing left to say.
Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.
People often look at the past through the rose-tinted glass, but if you go back to 'Top Gear' 2000/2002 the chemistry wasn't there, it took time to grow.
I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.
A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful.
I make a concerted effort to go watch the sunset a few days a week, have a glass of wine, and take a moment to feel fortunate and grateful for the view and for my life.
It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.
To me, the glass is half-empty some days and half-full on others. Sometimes it's bone-dry. Or overflowing.
Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.
I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some vivid dream has teased you with such magical mishaps.
It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.
I have a sliding glass door on my closet, and when I slide it one way I can see all my uniforms, and the other way is all my own clothes.
Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.
People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.
I get a fizzy thing in my brain, like a nice glass of wine, and I want to know facts and I want to understand.
His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.
Some people say, 'Shah Rukh, you work so hard. Why don't you sit back with a glass of red wine or go out on the terrace for a smoke?' But that's not me.
You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!
When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.
In these trying economic times, I believe the White House should have a minimalist touch: open floor plan, glass and steel, throw pillows, and an infinity pool.
He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass.
The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.
Without the assistance of eating and drinking, the most sparkling wit would be as heavy as a bad soufflé, and the brightest talent as dull as a looking-glass on a foggy day.
I couldn't think of anything worse than drinking a load of gunky-green stuff and sweating in a gym. I would rather sit in front of the TV and have a glass of wine.
Some people say,'Shah Rukh, you work so hard. Why don't you sit back with a glass of red wine or go out on the terrace for a smoke?' But that's not me.
Enjoying the least things - a chill glass of water, a moment of play with the cat, the sight of sunlight caught in the frost spangling the locust twigs - is a form of prayer.
I mean, I always just ignored the glass ceilings and didn't let gender get in my own way, which I think was very important to how people perceived me.
Something about the topic of consciousness makes people, like the White Queen in Through The Looking Glass, believe six impossible things before breakfast.
A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral.
All architecture, which does not express serenity, fails in its spiritual mission. Thus, it has been a mistake to abandon the shelter of walls for the inclemency of large areas of glass.
Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill
of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass.
Stop asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Instead ask "What's in it? How did it get there? What can I do with it?"
When I went platinum, you know, I had no idea that it was going to go platinum and I would have been happy if it went double glass.
What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.
I had always been interested in race and racial justice, but mostly it was with my nose pressed up against the glass, looking at the South from a long way away.
Happy men are grave. They carry their happiness cautiously, as they would a glass filled to the brim which the slightest movement could cause to spill over, or break.
I was brought up to always see the glass half full instead of half empty and played my cricket that way.
Clearly, the Iranians are well aware that Teheran would be turned into a field of glass and sand if they ever stepped toward open war with Israel or Saudi Arabia.
Any time I broke through the 'glass ceiling' by accomplishing things that foreigners weren't apparently able to do, they've been huge personal victories and career highlights for me.
Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.
Days off are few and far between in the restaurant business. But on an hour off, I like to have a glass of wine with my wife.
Glass and wearable technology is an example of another step in consumer-facing innovation that will change how we share the music experience with our fans in the future.
I paint by all the daylight we have and that is little enough, less perhaps than you have by much... imagine to yourself how a purl must look through a burnt glass.
Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.
I know places you better speak low if you've been to college. Men will come across the room and cold-deck you if you hold your glass wrong.
I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.
It is such a joy to join a legacy of amazing female playwrights who have managed to break through the glass ceiling and reinvigorate the Broadway stage by bringing a fresh and necessary perspective.
