Dazzling Quotes - Page 5

• Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few

  Georg Kieninger

  Chess, Woods, Shifting

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• The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Technique, Jazz

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• It sloweth age, it strengtheneth youth, it helpeth digestion, it abandoneth melancholie, it relisheth the heart, it lighteneth the mind, it quickenth the spirits, it keepeth and preserveth the head from whirling, the eyes from dazzling, the tongue from lisping, the mouth from snaffling, the teeth from chattering and the throat from rattling; it keepeth the stomach from wambling, the heart from swelling, the hands from shivering, the sinews from shrinking, the veins from crumbling, the bones from aching, and the marrow from soaking.

  Joseph Lyons

  Heart, Wine, Eye

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• We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mistake, Believe, Light

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 15, 2015

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• Any chance of getting something sweet to go with my coffee?” [Finn] asked in a hopeful voice. I arched an eyebrow at him. “You mean all those pieces of strawberry pie that you ate for lunch weren't enough?” “I’m a growing boy,” Finn said in a sincere tone. “I need my vitamins.” Bria snorted. “The only thing that’s growing on you, Lane, is your ego.” Finn sidled up to my sister and gave her a dazzling smile. “Well, other things of mine also tend to swell up in your presence, detective.

  Jennifer Estep

  Sweet, Coffee, Mean

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• To write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles and rebels, overdriven by the impatient god which guides it - and to find, next day, in place of the golden bough that bloomed miraculously in that dazzling hour, a withered bramble and a stunted flower.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Struggle, Flower, Writing

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• You must take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once, they would produce a splendor so dazzling that it would illuminate far beyond what we can normally see; and then a brilliant tunnel would appear before our eyes, revealing the path we forgot the moment we were born, and summoning us to regain the divine origins we had lost. The soul ever longs to return to the place from which it came, leaving the body lifeless.

  Laura Esquivel

  Powerful, Eye, Tunnels

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• In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches of France and the fields of England. Her richly complex characters walk right off the page and into our imaginations, as we fight with them, farm with them, cook with them. I devoured this dazzling novel.

  Margot Livesey

  Lying, War, Character

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• Wildly original, brilliantly comic, brutally gruesome, it is a dazzling performance that will probably outrage nearly as many readers as it delights.

  Orville Prescott

  Delight, Comic, Outrage

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• How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.

  Bill Vaughan

  Thinking, Firsts, Moral

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• Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe. Astonish Me is a treasure of small surprises.

  Maria Semple

  Fearless, Treasure, Surprise

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• Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of the people to put aside private interest for public good. The imperatives of virtue attached all sorts of desiderata to the republican citizen: simplicity, frugality, sobriety, simple manners, Christian benevolence, duty to the polity. Republics called on other virtues--spiritedness, courage--to protect the polity from external threats. Tyrants kept standing armies; republics relied on free yeomen, defending their own land.

  James Monroe

  Christian, Army, Simple

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• The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.

  Patricia T. O'Conner

  Reading, Civilization, Reader

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• Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, "How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?" It is a dazzling and elegant question, a question that demands an answer--a range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles.

  Bill Ayers

  Dream, Circles, House

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• God made us angels of energy, encased in solids - currents of life dazzling through a material bulb of flesh.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Angel, Energy, Flesh

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• From my stone pillow I have dreamed dreams of the mortal world above. I have heard its voices, its new music, as lullabies as I lie in my grave. I have envisioned its fantastical discoveries. I have known its courage in the timeless sanctum of my thoughts. And though it shuts me out with its dazzling forms, I long for one with the strength to roam it fearlessly, to ride the Devil's Road through its heart.

  Anne Rice

  Dream, Lying, Heart

  Anne Rice (2003). “The vampire Lestat”

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• I will add that I do not believe his admiration of my person, dazzling through I am, to be sincere. He told me I was a beautiful, sparkling lady.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Believe, Add

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “The Midnight Heir”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• It was the sheer variety of the pain that stopped me from crying out. It came from so many places, spoke so many languages, wore so many dazzling varieties of ethnic costume, that for a full fifteen seconds I could only hang my jaw in amazement.

  Hugh Laurie

  Pain, Fifteen, Costumes

  Hugh Laurie (1998). “The Gun Seller”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Eye, Dark, Men

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”, p.127

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• As usual, it occurred to me that words were the only thing that could possibly save me from this situation. This was a characteristic misunderstanding on my part. When action was needed, I was absorbed in words; for words proceeded with such difficulty from my mouth that I was intent on them and forgot all about action. It seemed to me that actions, which are dazzling, varied things, must always be accompanied by equally dazzling and equally varied words.

  Yukio Mishima

  Usual, Mouths, Action

  Yukio Mishima (2011). “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion”, p.25, Tuttle Publishing

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• Marco moves to close the distance between them, kissing away her tears before catching her lip with his own. As he kisses her, the bonfire glows brighter. The acrobats catch the light perfectly as they spin. The entire circus sparkles, dazzling every patron.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Distance, Moving, Kissing

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• They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.

  Frank McCourt

  Snow, Forever, Teeth

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Tis: A Memoir”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• I gave him a smile that I hoped was as dazzling as one of his. "I realized I'm in love." Marcus, startled, looked around as though he expected to see my object d'amour in the car with us. "And you just realized this? Did you just have some sort of vision?" "Didn't need to," I said, thinking of Wolfe's ill-fated trip to the Orkneys. "It's always been right in front of me.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Car, Vision

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• The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

  Petrarch

  Love, Youth, Individualism

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• This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea--if you gazed intently enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Children, Eye

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2014). “The Offshore Pirate: Short Story”, p.3, Harper Collins

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