#glance

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#become #bestow #content #earnest #fleeting

A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them. ↗

— Carolus Linnaeus

#distinguish #first #glance #globe #loss

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#glance #love #marry #men #men and women

You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't stare. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#glance #just #line #need #pickup

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. ↗

— John Muir

#control #creation #flower #glance #greatest

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#crooked #everything #glance #gone #into

I'm 5-foot-5, and I'll wear a big parka and put the hood up, and nobody gives me a second glance. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#gives #glance #hood #i #me

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make. ↗

— George Crumb

#gesture #glance #make #relatively #retrospective

Growing up in a house of five girls, I couldn't help but glance at a fashion magazine or two. ↗

— Karlie Kloss

#five #glance #growing #growing up #help

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still. ↗

— Criss Jami

#determination #first-impression #fool #foolish #genius