Dazzling Quotes

• She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Agony, Her Beauty, Glances

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.243, e-artnow

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• Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Beautiful, Imperfect

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• Tune into the presence of miracles, and in an instant, life can be transformed into a dazzling experience, more wondrous and exciting than we could even imagine.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Miracle

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: The Essence of Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence”, p.11, Harmony

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• If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

  W. C. Fields

  Witty, Dazzle, Baffled

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.

  Anais Nin

  Lying, Dark, Moments

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• Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Garden, Giving

  'Give me the splendid silent sun'

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• Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an overshadowed ocean, while the dazzling brightness of supreme hopes lies far off, fascinating and still, on the distant edge of the horizon

  Joseph Conrad

  Lying, Ocean, Twilight

  Joseph Conrad (2005). “A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences”, p.18, Cosimo, Inc.

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• She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Prayer, Sea, Sky

  Carol Ann Duffy (2009). “Mrs. Scrooge: A Christmas Poem”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling... every crystal, every flower a window opening into heaven, a mirror reflecting the Creator.

  John Muir

  Nature, Flower, Mirrors

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Soul, Triumph, Heroism

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• O Hope! Dazzling, radiant Hope! What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and cheering the lonely way.

  Aimee Semple McPherson

  Change, Lonely, Cheer

  Aimee Semple McPherson (2009). “This is That: Personal Experiences Sermons and Writings of Aimee Semple McPherson”, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Writing, Adventure

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.315, Graphic Arts Books

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• How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life.

  Dean Koontz

  Life, Spring, Butterfly

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.103, Bantam

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• Every joke can't be dazzling. And if you think you spotted an inconsistency, you did!

  George Meyer

  Thinking, Inconsistency, Jokes

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.

  Simone Schwarz-Bart

  Ocean, Men, Sea

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• Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Running, Flow

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• Stephen Schlesinger’s Act of Creation tells a dazzling story of the dramatic events that have shaped the world in which we live. Never has a book been more relevant to present dangers and future hopes.

  James Chace

  Book, Events, Stories

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• Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common and catastrophic fault. While providing us with a bountiful supply of food, with great industrial plants, with high-speed transportation, and with military weapons of unprecedented power, they threaten our very survival.

  Barry Commoner

  Military, Technology, Survival

  barry commoner (1966). “science and survival”

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• Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof. Take that Poppy seed, for instance: it lies in your palm, the merest atom of matter, hardly visible, a speck, a pin's point in bulk, but within it is imprisoned a spirit of beauty ineffable, which will break its bonds and emerge from the dark ground and blossom in a splendor so dazzling as to baffle all powers of description.

  Celia Thaxter

  Beauty, Lying, Dark

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.3, Applewood Books

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• Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Romantic, Dream

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• Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort. We are a nation rich in rivers.

  Charles Kuralt

  Running, Home, Memorable

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• We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year...All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no progress.

  George Packer

  Years, Technological Change, Progress

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• It's that mind-heart connection that I believe compels us to not just be attentive to all the bright and dazzling things but also the dark and difficult things.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Believe, Heart, Dark

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• Unfathomable oceans of grace are in Christ for you. Dive and dive again, you will never come to the bottom of these depths. How many millions of dazzling pearls and gems are at this moment hid in the deep recesses of the ocean caves.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Ocean, Grace, Depth

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1852). “Memoir and remains of the rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, minister of St. Peter's church, Dundee”, p.236

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• That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute nothingness represents absolute bliss.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Spiritual, Imagination, Forever

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