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They cant censor the gleam in my eye.
They can't censor the gleam in my eye.
Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.
My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.
For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado.
Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
Every time I have a conversation with a woman, I gleam something from it.
(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.
It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid.
What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?
As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.
Last year's troubles, They shine up so prettily, They gleam with a lustre they don't have today.
Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you're young and in your prime, whatever your actual age.
(H)ope, be it never so faint, bringeth a gleam into darkness, like a little rushlight that costeth but a groat.
There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.
Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam.
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
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.
In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable smile.
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.
A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.
Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
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.
Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams.
A dreamer of the common dreams, A fisher in familiar streams, He chased the transitory gleams That all pursue; But on his lips the eternal themes Again were new.
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.
It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.
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.
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.
Way back in 2008, when the iPhone was new and Instagram was a gleam in Kevin Systrom's eye, I was involved in creating a service called CrowdFire. It was a way for fans at a festival (the first was Outside Lands) to share photos, tweets, and texts in a location and event specific way.
When the holidays approach and the weather turns cold, you spend your nights watching and rewatching saccharine movies until you fall asleep, hoping for some gleam of happiness or catharsis that never comes, a version of life that looks like a Hallmark movie or where your idealized prince finally shows up.
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.
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.