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]
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
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)
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.
Her eyes, the Glow-worm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes Glow, Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.
Robert Herrick— The Night-piece, to Julia, written for his young daughter (1648).
A wind sways in the pines, And below Not a breath of wild air; Still as the mosses that Glow On the flooring and over the lines Of the roots here and there. The pine tree drops its dead; Theyare quiet, as under the sea. Overhead, overhead Rushes life in a race, As the clouds the clouds chase; And we go, And we drop like the fruits of the tree, Even we, Even so.
George Meredith— A Reading of Earth, "Dirge in the Woods" (1888)
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)
There are two kinds of light — the Glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
james thurber— Lanterns and Lances? (1961), p. 146; also misquoted as "There are two kinds of light — the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures."
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as Glow is more revealing than glare.
james thurber— Memo to The New Yorker (1959); reprinted in New York Times Book Review (4 December 1988)
You may choose your word like a connoisseur,And polish it up with art,But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays,Is the word that comes from the heart.You may work on your word a thousand weeks,But it will not Glow like oneThat all unsought, leaps forth white hot,When the fountains of feeling run.
ella wheeler wilcox— The Word
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!
— "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.
We are sparks that must Glow as brightly as possible.
asger jorn— On being an pictorial artist (1950), as quoted in Asger Jorn (2002) by Arken Museum of Modern Art, p. 5
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))
The Glow has gone forever And our dreams have turned to dust; I don't know how I can go on, And yet I know I must.
tom springfield— Song No Sad Songs for Me
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.
vitruvius— Chapter IV, Sec. 3
May I therefore acknowledge the tender Glow of health induced by reading, as I sat here in the morning sun, the flattering attention paid me by your gentleman of ready wreath and quick biography!
Whistler— After a Dutch newspaper prematurely reported his death in 1902
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.
God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and Glow, like like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.
john masefield— John Masefield, Widow in the Bye Street, Part VI.
Toil on, O weary, way-worn sufferer! bear up, O crushed and sorrowing heart! thy bed of pain, thy silent heroism, thy patient Christian walk, thy resignation, and thy grief, Glow all unconsciously to thee with winning radiance, and fill the world with life's sweetest fragrance as bruised flowers with perfume do the air.
— Alexander Dickson, p. 569. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers)
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.
Heaven's face doth Glow.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act III, scene 4, line 48
I shall see Him with these eyes, Him whom I shall surely know; Not another shall I rise, With His love this heart shall Glow; Only there shall disappear Weakness in and round me here.
— Louisa Henrietta, p. 519. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
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
Some touch of Nature's genial Glow.
walter scott— Walter Scott, Lord of the Isles, Canto III, Stanza 14
There's nothing bright above, below, From flowers that bloom, to stars that Glow, But in its light my soul can see Some feature of Thy Deity.
— Thomas Moore, p. 429 (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
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
Any Muscovite general puts on a great show, Like a pike cooked in saffron , all glitter and Glow.
— Book Four, Diplomacy and the Hunt
