Earth walks on Earth, Glittering in gold; Earth goes to Earth, Sooner than it wold; Earth builds on Earth, Palaces and towers; Earth says to Earth, Soon, all shall be ours.
Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The man who owns whole blocks of real estate, and great ships on the sea, does not own a single minute of tomorrow. Tomorrow! It is a mysterious possibility, not yet born. It lies under the seal of midnight-behind the veil of glittering constellations.
Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.
Ever since I was younger I wanted to be on stage, singing my songs in a glittering costume. And that happened and is still happening. I have to remember that this is what I wished for and be grateful because there are 500 other girls right behind me that are ready to snatch it up.
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.
He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
A person's own definition of leadership defines the glittering crown of his leadership.
That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.
Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
. . . Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects.
What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?
Magnus had been alive hundreds of years himself, and yet the simplest things could turn a day into a jewel, and a succession of days into a glittering chain that went on and on. Here was the simplest thing: a pretty girl liked him, and the day shone.
Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long suddenly for peace, for understanding.
In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.
The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
When held up to the window pane, What fixed my baby stare? The glory of the glittering rain, And newness everywhere.
She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone -- She never deemed -- she hurt -- That -- is not Steel's Affair -- A vulgar grimace in the Flesh -- How ill the Creatures bear -- To Ache is human -- not polite -- The Film upon the eye Mortality's old Custom -- Just locking up -- to Die.
My mom always said I liked to stir the pot with a glittering spoon.
