Glow Quotes
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I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded Glow of the night's light. but hey, that would be going into sexual details...
mark sanford— From emails to Argentinian mistress
— Released by The State newspaper (June 25, 2009) [2]
The last monk, upon entering, paused in the lock. He stood in the open hatchway and took off his sandals. "Sic transit mundus," he murmured, looking back at the Glow. He slapped the soles of his sandals together, beating the dirt out of them.
walter m. (jr.) miller— Ch 30 (Fiat Voluntas Tua)
What is charm, it is not a moral quality.. it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to add a grain of it to his personality. One either has it or has it not, it cannot be acquired or even cultivated. It is not physical even.. it seems to be added to the human personality, an aura, a Glow, the gold dust upon a butterfly's wing, the bloom upon a peach.
flora thompson— February Chapter The Peverel Papers - A yearbook of the countryside ed Julian Shuckburgh Century Hutchinson 1986
There are two kinds of light — the Glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
— James Thurber, in Lanterns and Lances? (1963).
Thou Royal River, born of sun and shower In chambers purple with the Alpine Glow, Wrapped in the spotless ermine of the snow And rocked by tempests!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, To the River Rhone, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 673.
The rubyand amethyst eyes of anemones Glow through me, fiercer than stars.
— Home Ground (1974),'Night Cries, Wakari Hospital: Winter Anemones'.
Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, To Mrs. M. B., on her Birthday.
The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and Glow.
jonathan edwards— Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, sermon delivered in Enfield, Connecticut (July 8, 1741)
I will become a firefly and even in the day my Glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings and yet depend upon the charity of a flower for life. I will be as the firefly and my light will brighten the world.
og mandino— Ch. 16 : The Scroll Marked IX, p. 94
Men who are sincere in defending their freedom, will always feel concern at every circumstance which seems to make against them; it is the natural and honest consequence of all affectionate attachments, and the want of it is a vice. But the dejection lasts only for a moment; they soon rise out of it with additional vigor; the Glow of hope, courage and fortitude, will, in a little time, supply the place of every inferior passion, and kindle the whole heart into heroism.
thomas paine— The Crisis No. IV
Holden decided that he was okay with not feeling any remorse for them. The moral complexity of the situation had grown past his ability to process it, so he just relaxed in the warm Glow of victory instead.
daniel abraham— Chapter 41 (p. 412)
Fain would I Raphael's godlike art rehearse, And show th' immortal labours in my verse, Where from themingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heavenly figures from his pencil flow, So warm with life his blended colours Glow. From theme to theme with secret pleasure tost, Amidst the soft variety I 'm lost: Here pleasing airs my ravish'd soul confound With circling notes and labyrinths of sound; Here domes and temples rise in distant views, And opening palaces invite my Muse.
joseph addison— A Letter from Italy (1703).
It had been a moving, tranquil apotheosis, immersed in the transfiguring sunset Glow of decline and decay and extinction. An old family, already grown too weary and too noble for life and action, had reached the end of its history, and its last utterances were sounds of music: a few violin notes, full of the sad insight which is ripeness for death.
thomas mann— Ch. 10 (Tristan (1902))
Let the Glow in your heart reflect in your soul.
steve maraboli— p. 78 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
And who can boast he never felt the fires, The trembling throbbings of the young desires, When he beheld the breathing roses Glow, And the soft heavings of the living snow; The waving ringlets of the auburn hair, And all the rapturous graces of the fair! Oh! what defence, if fixt on him, he spy The languid sweetness of the stedfast eye! Ye who have felt the dear luxurious smart, When angel-charms oppress the powerless heart, In pity here relent the brow severe, And o'er Fernando's weakness drop the tear.
william julius mickle— Book III. (The Lusiads (1776))
The warm look of radiance on your faceAnd your heart beating close to mineAnd the evening fading in the candle GlowThis must be what it's all aboutOh this must be what it's all aboutThis must be what paradise is likeSo quiet in here, so peaceful in hereSo quiet in here, yeah, so peaceful in here.
van morrison— So Quiet In Here
Speak not too well of one who scarce will know Himself transfigured in its roseate Glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, Remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., "Poem", read at a dinner given for the author by the medical profession of the City of New York (April 12, 1883); reported in The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, ed. Eleanor M. Tilton (1895, rev. 1975), p. 71.
The water is calm and still below, For the winds and waves are absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that Glow In the motionless fields of upper air.
— The coral Grove, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to Glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
homer— Homer, The Odyssey, Book XVIII, line 269. Pope's translation.
So perish all whose breast ne'er learned to Glow For other's good or melt at other's woe.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, Elegy to an Unfortunate Lady, referencing Homer, The Odyssey, Book XVIII, 269.
Because its myriad glimmering plumes Like a great army's stir and wave; Because its golden billows blooms, The poor man's barren walks to lave: Because its sun-shaped blossoms show How souls receive the light of God, And unto earth give back that Glow I thank him for the Goldenrod.
lucy larcom— Lucy Larcom, Goldenrod.
The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall Glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
— Petrarch, Triumph of Eternity, line 117
When day is done, and clouds are low, And flowers are honey-dew, And Hesper's lamp begins to Glow Along the western blue; And homeward wing the turtle-doves, Then comes the hour the poet loves.
george croly— George Croly, The Poet's Hour.
Heat is a universal solvent, melting out of things their power of resistance, and sucking away and removing their natural strength with its fiery exhalations so that they grow soft, and hence weak, under its Glow.
— Chapter IV, Sec. 3 (Book I)
How beautiful is sunset when the Glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Julian and Maddalo, lines 55-57.
Any Muscovite general puts on a great show, Like a pike cooked in saffron , all glitter and Glow.
— Book Four, Diplomacy and the Hunt
And so, this Christmas season may our hearts with gladness Glow, as we read the blessed story that took place so long ago.
— Alpha L. Buntain in "The First Christmas".
