Glimpsed Quotes

We have at last glimpsed the surface of the fabled world, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the greatest single expanse of unexplored territory remaining in the Solar System today. - Carolyn Porco

We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out of the randomness, there is an apparent intention in the fate of an individual that can be glimpsed later on. When you are an old guy, you can look back, and maybe this rambling life has some through-line. Others can see it better sometimes. But when you glimpse it yourself, you see it more clearly than anyone. - Viggo Mortensen

Then I saw a design. There on the map...For me, the migration had been to places and moments of glimpsed clarity. - William Least Heat Moon

Sometimes
in winter the surface waters, which are less salty, were so cold that
the sharks spent more time in warmer, saltier waters below... When I glimpsed the sharks' radio positions from these frigid
seas, I often wondered what it would be like to overwinter in the wilds
of an Alaska fjord chasing herring in constant darkness. - Barbara Block

Sometimes in winter the surface waters, which are less salty, were so cold that the sharks spent more time in warmer, saltier waters below. When I glimpsed the sharks' radio positions from these frigid seas, I often wondered what it would be like to overwinter in the wilds of an Alaska fjord chasing herring in constant darkness. - Barbara Block

It's important to recognize that the potential here has only been glimpsed... Looking ahead 15 to 20 years, the U.S.-Indian economic relationship should become a key pillar of strength for both our countries and for the global economy. - John Snow

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. - Alex Noble

Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses / those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence. - Richard Ford