Look for the stars, you'll say that there are noneLook up a second time, and, one by one,You mark them twinkling out with silvery light,And wonder how they could elude the sight
Quotes about twinkling (16 Quotes)
Some cunning speculations on the state of the weather, the state of the nation, and the state of the crops, and we were bosom friends in a twinkling.
There's but a twinkling of a star Between a man of peace and war.
Chateau and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well--thousands of acres of land--a whole province of France--all France itself--lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it.
The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)...
One who had the knowledge of the Book said I will bring it to you in the twinkling of an eye. Then when he saw it settled beside him, he said This is of the grace of my Lord that He may try me whether I am grateful or ungrateful and whoever is grateful, he is grateful only for his own soul, and whoever is ungrateful, then surely my Lord is Self-sufficient, Honored.
And Our command is but one, as the twinkling of an eye.
It is a glorious privilege to live, to know, to act, to listen, to behold, to love. To look up at the blue summer skyto see the sun sink slowly beyond the line of the horizon to watch the worlds come twinkling into view, first one by one, and the myriads that no man can count, and lo the universe is white with them and you and I are here.
So many great nobles, things, administrations, So many high chieftains, so many brave nations, So many proud princes, and power so splendid, In a moment, a twinkling, all utterly ended.
We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.
And Allah sets forth a parable of two men one of them is dumb, not able to do anything, and he is a burden to his master wherever he sends him, he brings no good can he be held equal with him who enjoins what is just, and he (himself) is on the right path And Allah's is the unseen of the heavens and the earth and the matter of the hour is but as the twinkling of an eye or it is higher still surely Allah has power over all things.
The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.
No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.