Last Glance Quotes

#1. With one last glance over my shoulder, I feel whole knowing that they are happy. That's my last thought as I find peace. At last.

K. Webster

#2. Might his last glance behold the glorious ensign of the Republic still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in all their original lustre.

Noah Webster

#3. Rey'azikeen."
He'd offered me one last glance and winked a microsecond before he was gone.

Darynda Jones

#4. When it was time to board my flight, I took one last glance back. I knew that I had everything with me so it was not a "make sure I have everything" glance. It was more like a parting glance to Philadelphia, my home, America- for I would not be coming back for ten months. (Ch 5- Twenty in Paris)

Andrea Bouchaud

#5. It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting a last glance at the irreplaceable earth, exclaimed: Close the window, it's too beautiful.

Albert Camus

#6. That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

George Eliot

#7. Roses are the only flowers at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing.

Katherine Mansfield

#8. But Ahab's glance was averted; like a blighted fruit tree he shook, and cast his last, cindered apple to the soil.

Herman Melville

#9. I wanted to glance one last time over my shoulder, but there was no reason to. Looking behind would only show me the things I'd seen, and everything of importance I could always see,

A. Lee Martinez

#10. Most ideas are step-by-step children of other ideas.

Alex Faickney Osborn

#11. I had said goodbye to her once before, but it took everything I had to say goodbye to her then, again, for the last time, like poor Orpheus turning for a last backward glance at the ghost of his only love and in the same heartbeat losing her forever: hinc illae lacrimae, hence those tears.

Donna Tartt

#12. Women and girls begin to bare themselves behind and in front, and there is nobody to punish and hold in check, and besides, God's word is mocked.

Martin Luther

#13. At the last moment, the fish and I exchange a troubled glance. The murrel seems to be demanding an explanation. Alas, I am in no position to start justifying the unusual treatment. What comes next is a new experience for both the fish and me.

Tahir Shah

#14. Failure can destroy you if you are weak, but if you are strong, you can destroy failure.

Wael El-Manzalawy

#15. The whole world is caught in her glance
and at last
the universe is
magnificent.

Charles Bukowski

#16. Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#17. I never closed my eyes and neither did he as I kissed him. His lips parted, his tongue threaded with mine and we agreed he would fight for me.He would chase me.And who knew,he would save me one last time.

Pepper Winters

#18. The insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.

Hannah Arendt

#19. I want to love you simply, in words not spoken: tinder to the flame which transforms it to ash
I want to love you simply, in signs not expressed: clouds to the rain which make them evanescent (Aku Ingin-I Want)

Sapardi Djoko Damono

#20. He leaves. Just like that. No final good-bye, no last, lingering glance.
Like we never loved each other at all.

Sara Raasch

#21. I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.

John Oliver

#22. I really enjoy what little time I have at home. The golf course and practice facilities are perfect and so close to home!

Paula Creamer

#23. my chest tightens so much it physically hurts. The last image I see when I glance back is the door closing as Jackson's head falls into his hands. Now I know what it feels like to lose your heart.

Corinne Michaels

#24. That's a dangerous look," said Dimitri, giving me a brief glance before returning his eyes to the road.
"What look?" I asked innocently.
"The one that says you just got some idea."
"I didn't just get an idea. I got a great idea.

Richelle Mead

#25. I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.

Paul Fleischman

#26. You've been going for hunts," Tamlin said at last, "but you really don't have any interest in hunting." He cast me a sidelong glance. "No wonder you two never catch anything." No

Sarah J. Maas

#27. Pleased to meet you," Tellin says, shaking me out of my reverie. "Lily told me much about you last weekend."
"Funny." Quince throws me a questioning glance. "She didn't mention you at all.

Tera Lynn Childs

#28. The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.

Jack Kornfield

#29. My heart was tightening painfully, as it had after our first parting. Oh, how I was glad of this feeling! Could it be that youth wishes to return to me with its wholesome storms, or is this only its departing glance, its last gift, as a keepsake ... ?

Mikhail Lermontov

#30. I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.

Rosa Parks