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glance
«The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.»
Author: Federico Garcia Lorca
(Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
anguish, at first glance, Big cities, Big City, captures, closely, extra, forgivable, furious, gaieties, gaiety, gangs, gang up, geometry, glance, machines, rhythm, The Traveler, traveler, typical
«The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions»
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
(Inventor, Philosopher)
| About:
Action,
History,
Passion
| Keywords:
at first glance, convinces, glance, impresses, proceed
«There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.»
«The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people daresay nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at eachother. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
abused, abuse of power, abusing, begins, beings, come to, disbelieved, disbelieves, disbelieving, fallen, glance, glanced, glances, glancing, in two ways, looked, love story, nowadays, Power of Love, so much, stories, The Power, The Power Of Love
«That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, comtempt, and general indiference, and they call it love. Once you've felt what it means to love as you and I know it - the total passion for the total height - you are unable of anything else.»
«That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.»
«The Husband Lord abides with everyone, always; but how rare are those few who, by Guru's Grace, obtain His Glance of Grace.»
«That body is said to be pure, in which the True Name abides. One whose body is imbued with the Fear of the True One, and whose tongue savors Truthfulness, is brought to ecstasy by the True Lord's Glance of Grace. That person does not have to go through the fire of the womb again.»
«The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them into shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a na»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
airy, frenzy, give forth, glance, habitation, Heaven To, local, rolling, The Forms
