Quotes of: Glimpse Keyword

No book is written; it's always re-written

A Glimpse At Happiness

Heschel calls the Sabbath a cathedral in time.

The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time

the day is all about getting connected.

The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time

Life often is a bucket of water sitting on a farmer’s porch. Our choice is in the drinking.

A Glimpse of Fear

The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement.

A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas

I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a...

Paramahansa Yogananda

When you painted on earth – at least in your earlier days – it was because you caught glimpses of heaven in the earthly landscape. The success of your painting was that it enabled others to see the glimpses too.

The Great Divorce

The Sabbath, I said, is not only an idea. It is also something you keep. With other people. You can’t just extract lessons from it.

The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time

It was as if they'd discovered something that had once been there but had gotten hidden or misunderstood or forgotten over time, and they were charmed by it once more, and by one another. Which seems only right and expectable for married people. They...

Canada

In Nepal, the quality of conversation is much more important than accuracy of the content. Maybe we get overexcited about information in England?

A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas

GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole person…spend time with the dying…see things through to the end.

A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas

a Nepali outlook, pace and philosophy had prevented us being swamped by our problems. In Nepal it was easier to take life day by day.

A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas

I refuse to do shows that are narrowly constructed, that appeal to only one sentiment. I do a lot of Jewish material in front of non-Jews and a lot of non-Jewish material in front of Jews on the simple theory that the non-Jews are entitled to a glimp...

Theodore Bikel

We'd incorporated Asia into our bones - its colours and laughter, its smells, its rhythms, its tolerance and patience, its compassion, its lack of ageism.

A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas

There is no better point of entry to the religious experience than the Sabbath, for all its apparent ordinariness. Because of its ordinariness. The extraordinariness of the Sabbath lies in its being commonplace.

The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time

Dr. Robin Hatcher: [showing CCTV footage of the estate explosion] Interesting - we only seem to get a glimpse of the outer-most edge of the explosion. But we did happen to catch a glimpse of Sandford's most wanted! [shows the swan, everyone claps] Ni...

Hot Fuzz

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

Anaxagoras

I didn’t ask for your help,” I muttered, too exhausted to properly argue. “So fuck you.” An alarm bell went off in my head and I bit back a sigh. I swore I sensed the mischievous grin that inevitably crossed his lips. “I already did you.”...

A Glimpse of The Dark

a dementia sufferer effuses delight and notices very different things when taken out in her wheelchair. Such people can teach us to see again the little things that make a big difference. They can show us how to enjoy familiar environments with fresh...

A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas

The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life richer. You feel more alive, less cocooned.

A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas

My prayers are answered. No: a glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon. And there must perhaps always be just enough lack of demonstrativ...

A Severe Mercy