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

A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.
Michael Medved

A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.
W. G. Sebald

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.
Robert Smithson

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

But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.
Linda Lingle

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

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.
James Thurber

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.
Jean Rostand

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
Alphonse de Lamartine

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.
Wilhelm von Humboldt

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Saint Augustine

Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
Cynthia Heimel

No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.
Nancy Thayer

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.
Alan Rickman

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.
Nellie Bly

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.
Mary Leakey

So I was at the Actor's Studio, thinking about this, and I happened to glance over to the other side of the stage and I saw the ugliest chair I have ever seen. And I thought, 'Well, I could kill that chair!'
Ellen Burstyn

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

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