Flash Quotes - Page 13

• I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.

  Anne Frank

  Understanding, Problem, Pleasure

  Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.80, Hamilton Books

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• Gideon was a force of nature, his magnetic self-possession so powerful it put everyone around him in his shadow. I saw flashes of it every day and was awed by it, but not nearly as much as I was by the charming, wryly amusing lover I had entirely to myself in our private moments together.

  Sylvia Day

  Powerful, Self, Shadow

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• A flash of resentment. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having...if not died, then having given up her life. It wasn't fair. "Life's not fair," said Ginnie, as if I had spoken aloud.

  Neil Gaiman

  Trying, Needs, Alive

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• The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Healing, Miscarriage, Talking

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar”, p.21, Vintage

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• You're not very nice," I say, grinning. "You're one to talk." "Hey, I could be nice if I tried." "Hmm." He taps his chin. "Say something nice, then." "You're very good-looking." He smiles, his teeth a flash in this dark. "I like this 'nice' thing.

  Veronica Roth

  Nice, Dark, Teeth

  Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.17, HarperCollins

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• Where there is truth, there is also light, but don't confuse light with the flash.

  Pope Francis

  Light

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• The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

  Walter Benjamin

  Time, Past, Instant

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope to shed some of His light. There is no life so meager that the greatest and wisest of us can afford to despise it. We cannot know at what moment it may flash forth with the life of God.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life, Humble, Light

  Phillips Brooks (1881). “The Candle of the Lord: And Other Sermons”

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• A flash of enlightenment offers a preview of coming attractions, but when it fades, you will see more clearly what separates you from that state - your compulsive habits, outmoded beliefs, false associations, and other mental structures. Just when our lives are starting to get better, we may feel like things are getting worse - because for the first time we see clearly what needs to be done.

  Dan Millman

  Spiritual, Get Better, Enlightenment

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.15, H J Kramer

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• My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in the picture you can look at it directly.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Struggle, Eye, Looks

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• Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Life, Reflection, Psychics

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• True love always happens in a flash.

  Stephen King

  Love, Happens, Inspirational Love

  Stephen King (2002). “From a Buick 8”, Scribner

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• Houses - the dark side silhouetted on flashes of moonlight!

  William Carlos Williams

  Sunset, Dark, Night

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

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• Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiration, Knowledge, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

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• Time is not a linear flow, as we think it is, into past, present, and future. Time is an indivisible whole, a great pool in which all events are eternally embodied and still have their meaningful flash of supernormal or extra - sensory perception, and glimpse of something that happened long ago in our linear time.

  Frank Waters

  Meaningful, Time, Past

  Frank Waters (1999). “Mountain Dialogues”, Swallow Press

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• The big homie use a flash if you must. And I swear I aint askin for much.

  Drake

  Humble, Use, Bigs

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• Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves for the several centuries we need to catch our breath. What is it that enables certain flowers to resemble nubile insects, or opossums to play dead, or female fireflies to change the code of their flashes in order to attract, and then eat, males of a different species?

  Lewis Thomas

  Truth, Lying, Real

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

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• Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty. Prayer includes moments of ecstasy and also dullness, mindless distraction and acute concentration, flashes of joy and bouts of irritation. In other words, prayer has features in common with all relationships that matter.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, Believe, Irritation

  Philip Yancey (1995). “The Jesus I Never Knew”, p.298, Harper Collins

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• Suddenly, there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I have ever seen or that I think anyone has ever seen. It blasted; it pounced; it bored its way into you. It was a vision which was seen with more than the eye. It was seen to last forever. You would wish it would stop; altogether it lasted about two seconds.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Eye, Science, Thinking

  Isidor Isaac Rabi (1970). “Science: the center of culture”

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• I'll tell you what you need to be a great scientist. You don't have to be able understand very complicated things. It's just the opposite. You have to be able to see what looks like the most complicated thing in the world and, in a flash, find the underlying simplicity. That's what you need: a talent for simplicity.

  Mitchell A. Wilson

  Opposites, Simplicity, Needs

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• The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.

  Nikola Tesla

  Odds, Ideas, Lightning

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “My Inventions”, p.28, Lulu Press, Inc

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• His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.

  Henry James

  Kissing, White, Sensual

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.1769, Delphi Classics

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• Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.

  Dogen

  Morning, Lightning, Dew

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• Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held together by blank plaster. Other rooms hold sound and motion, great snakes wrestling and heaving in the dark and lit in flashes. Pleas and screaming fill some places on the grounds where Hannibal himself cannot go. But the corridors do not echo screaming, and there is music if you like.

  Thomas Harris

  Wrestling, Dark, Echoes

  Thomas Harris (2007). “Hannibal Rising”, Dell

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• First thoughts have tremendous energy. The internal censor usually squelches them, so we live in the realm of second and third thoughts, thoughts on thought, twice and three times removed from the direct connection of the first fresh flash.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Energy, Connections, Three

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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