#dazzling

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling. ↗

— Petrarch

#dazzling #impetuous #longs #love #only

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#apparent failure #dazzling #failure #islam #mohammed

The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#music #others #technique #value #yourself

The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble nor the most terrible. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#almost #belong #beyond #dazzling #feeling

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. ↗

— John Updike

#blank #blank paper #characters #chilled #day