Glasses Quotes - Page 31

• And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Dream, America, Liberty

  "CNN Saturday" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2003.

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• Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Matter, Life Is

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 100, 1982.

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• A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good, and the people are good, And we 're all good fellows together.

  John O'Keefe

  Weather, People, Together

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• God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called to bear that image as a Body because any one of us taken individually would present an incomplete image, one partly false and always distorted, like a single glass chip hacked from a mirror. But collectively, in all our diversity, we can come together as a community of believers to restore the image of God in the world.

  Philip Yancey

  Faith, Christian, Taken

  FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Feb 19, 2013

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• My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard."

  Marianne Moore

  Father, Flower, Long

  "Silence" l. 1 (1935)

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• At the time Gothic cathedrals were designed, most people lived in dark huts, so just walking into a space vastly larger than what they were habituated to, lit by stained glass windows, was literally awe-inspiring. Today, we're not as impressed by big buildings, so we have to go to very large mountains to experience that 'diminutive effect.'

  Michael Persinger

  Dark, Space, People

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• The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Heart, Wine, Thinking

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• Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and perfecting the events which were to shed around the evening of his life the halo of a glorious and cloudless sunset. All things were working together for his good! And so, troubled soul, the "much tribulation" will soon be over, and as you enter the "kingdom of God" you shall then see, no longer "through a glass darkly" but in the unshadowed sunlight of the Divine presence, that "all things" did "work together" for your personal and eternal good.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Sunset, Eye, Soul

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures, 1922-23, Vol. 01 of 17”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Wine, Paris, Curiosity

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• Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.

  Pietro Aretino

  Life, Reality, Toys

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• The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Piano, Storm, World

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• Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Book

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• Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Funny, Humor, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “On the Constitution of the Church and State”, p.502, Classic Books Company

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• According to DC's HIV/AIDS office, three percent of the local population has HIV or AIDS... The DC City Council, perhaps on the theory that serving up another glass of wine is the way to help a drunk, is scheduled to vote on December 1 to legalize same sex marriage in America's capital city.

  Star Parker

  Sex, Wine, Cities

  Star Parker (2010). “Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do About It”, p.210, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• And since we're all adults here, let's be brutally honest-most babies are not actually attractive. In fact, they're weird and freakish looking. A large percentage of them are squinty-eyed and bald and their faces are all mushed toegther, kind of like Renee Zellweger pushed up against a glass window.

  Joan Rivers

  Baby, Parenting, Motherhood

  Joan Rivers (2012). “I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me Deluxe”, p.19, Penguin

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• Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Thinking

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• Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

  William Davenant

  Perfect, Calamity, Knows

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• Wedlock's like wine - not properly judged of till the second glass.

  Ernest Jarrold

  Wine, Wedlock, Judged

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• On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

  Athenaeus

  Wine, Years, Age

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• From the time we begin school, if not sooner, we are taught to be blind to our assets and only see our deficits. We are carefully marked on how many we got wrong on a test and, rarely if ever, asked how we know how to spell the ones we got right. By the time we are adults, we are well versed in every one of our limitations, skilled in our incompetence. If we were fish in an aquarium, it would be as if we kept smashing against the glass, and forgot the fact that we were perfectly capable of turning ever so slightly and swimming gracefully in the water all around us.

  Dawna Markova

  Education, School, Swimming

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose”, Conari Press

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• Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day, or with a new prescription for your glasses - or with a new set of ideological filters.

  George Weigel

  Optimism, Filters, Looks

  George Weigel (2015). “Letters to a Young Catholic”, p.100, Basic Books

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• The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century.

  Diana Butler Bass

  Internet, Century, Stained Glass

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• Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.

  Till Lindemann

  Art, Pain, Loneliness

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• People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong.

  Merlin Mann

  Couple, Shoes, People

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• Catch a throatful from the fire vocal
  Ashing and molten glass like Eyjafjallajökull.

  Daniel Dumile

  Rap, Fire, Hip Hop

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