Definition of Glimpse

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Glimpse

A sudden flash; transient luster.

A short, hurried view; a transitory or fragmentary perception; a quick sight.

A faint idea; an inkling.

to appear by glimpses; to catch glimpses.

To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of.

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Glimpse Quotations

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
John Lennon

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Albert Camus

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
Anaxagoras

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.
George Harrison

My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture.
Leonard Nimoy

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes

The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.
George Berkeley

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
Thomas More

Glimpse Translations

glimpse in French is entrevoyons, entrevoir, entrevois, entrevoient
glimpse in Norwegian is skimte, glimt
glimpse in Spanish is vislumbrar
glimpse in Swedish is inblick, skymt, glimt

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