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Best Quotes About Light (Top 100)
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When it is dark enough, men see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
Terry Pratchett -
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart
Kahlil Gibran -
Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas -
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton -
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen -
Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.
Mary Stewart -
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
Malcolm X -
I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.
Donna Tartt -
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
Gautama Buddha -
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Og Mandino -
How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.
Elspeth Huxley -
When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?
Shel Silverstein -
The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.
Joss Whedon -
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you... We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they wont' just be able to take one, they'll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we'll be joined so tight...
Philip Pullman -
I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom had told me—that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
Anne Lamott -
For darkness restores what light cannot repair.
Joseph Brodsky -
A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.
John Steinbeck -
So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?
Anthony Doerr -
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Gustav Jung -
Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.
Dan Brown -
I want to go about like the light-footed goats.
Johanna Spyri -
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
Le Corbusier -
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
Le Corbusier -
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
Louisa May Alcott -
You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
Terence McKenna -
Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
Stanley Kubrick -
We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.
Madeleine L'Engle -
The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.
Ronald Reagan -
We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
Dwight L. Moody -
Life is a winking light in the darkness.
Hayao Miyazaki -
May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.
Bob Dylan -
Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?... It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doers to light... My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
Anna Sewell -
All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled mass called material casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.
Louis Kahn -
There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.
Rod Serling -
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
Walt Whitman -
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
William Blake -
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller -
At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God's hand until we learn to hear Him...Watch where God puts you into darkness, and when you are there keep your mouth shut. Are you in the dark just now in your circumstances, or in your life with God? Then remain quiet...When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else when you get into the light.
Oswald Chambers -
Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn't as bright as it could be.
Rob Bell -
One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
Jeannette Walls -
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Vladimir Nabokov -
There are two kinds of light—the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurber -
Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color. Some people’s flames are so still they don’t even flicker in the wind, while others have wild flames that fill the air with sparks. Some foolish flames neither burn nor shed light, but others blaze with life so fiercely that you can’t look at them without blinking, and if you approach you shine in the fire.
Eduardo Galeano -
Your woman knows your weaknesses better than anybody. She knows where you will falter and give up. She knows the degree of mediocrity you will settle for. And, she knows your true capacity as a full man, a man of free consciousness and love. Her gift, if she is a good woman, is to test you with her darkest moods, over and over and over, until your consciousness is unperturbed by feminine challenge, and you are able to pervade her with your love, just as you are here to pervade the world. In response to your fearless consciousness, she will drench your world in love and light.
David Deida -
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
Stanley Kubrick -
Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst.
Joyce Carol Oates -
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Denis Waitley -
Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It's late afternoon - the sun is just setting (a cold yellow colour) behind some colder violet hills, and I am up in my window seat using the last light to write to you.
Jean Webster -
Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.
Elizabeth Gaskell -
I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
Helen Keller -
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul
Pythagoras -
I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.
Albert Hofmann -
Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been.
Jerry Garcia -
Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge
Plato -
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
Christopher Columbus -
Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by.
Madeleine L'Engle -
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love brings hope to the hopeless and gladdens the hearts of the sorrowful. In the world of existence there is indeed no greater power than the power of love
Abdu'l-Bah -
Religion should unite all hearts and cause wars and disputes to vanish from the face of the earth; it should give birth to spirituality, and bring light and life to every soul. If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division, it would be better to be without it... Any religion which is not a cause of love and unity is no religion.
Abdu'l-Bah -
The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
Giordano Bruno -
I am not yours, not lost in you,Not lost, although I long to beLost as a candle lit at noon,Lost as a snowflake in the sea.You love me, and I find you stillA spirit beautiful and bright,Yet I am I, who long to beLost as a light is lost in light.
Sara Teasdale -
In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark. There are also numberless earths circling around their suns..."
Giordano Bruno -
Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
Alfred Stieglitz -
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.
Geronimo -
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
Theodore Roethke -
Love is the last light spoken.
Dylan Thomas -
And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri.
Peter Matthiessen -
I see love, like art, as an obsession. Maybe that's an overly romantic view of human existence, but I'm an overly romantic human being. If love, like rock and roll, doesn't consume me 24-7, it's not love. It can be respect, appreciation, admiration, wonderment, it can be a world of glory and a lifetime of peace, but I can't call it love. Love burns me and confuses me. Love's a light that can't be extinguished.
Scott Weiland -
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller -
I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.
Meryl Streep -
A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,âthe light which, showing the way, forbids it.
Kate Chopin -
When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
Ronald Reagan -
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
Aaron Burr -
Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.
Jose Marti -
God is the light shining in the midst of darkness, not to deny that there is darkness in the world but to reassure us that we do not have to be afraid of the darkness because darkness will always yield to light. As theologian David Griffin puts in, God is all-powerful, His power enables people to deal with events beyond their control and He gives us the strength to do those things because He is with us.
Harold S. Kushner -
Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.
Don Henley -
Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear,
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.
Tom Robbins -
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Allan Bloom -
[Speaking] is never without fear; of visibility, of the harsh light of scrutiny and perhaps judgment, of pain, of death. But we have lived through all of those already, in silence, except death. And I remind myself all the time now, that if I were to have been born mute, and had maintained an oath of silence my whole life for safety, I would still have suffered, and I would still die.
Audre Lorde -
But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.
Billy Collins -
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.
Marcel Marceau -
Beware of organizations that proclaim their devotion to the light without embracing, bowing to the dark; for when they idealize half the world they must devalue the rest.
Starhawk -
We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
Albert Pike -
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Alexander Pope -
nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music
Carol Shields -
These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.
Ian Mcewan -
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.
Louis D. Brandeis -
Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap.
Barbara Taylor Bradford -
We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.
Richard Burr -
Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.
Dan Brown -
Never forget what you learned in the light when you are in the dark.
Bryan Davis -
There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.
Raymond Chandler -
Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.
Aaron Cohen -
There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.
Robert Browning
Even More Light Quotes
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Everything having to do with human training and education has to be re-examined in light of neuroplasticity.
Norman Doidge -
The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.
Richard Peck -
Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.
Louise Erdrich -
It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
Eddie Vedder -
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
Claude Debussy -
Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
Caspar David Friedrich -
We write by the light of every story we have ever read.
Richard Peck -
Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light"側 I just want to be pure.
Jim Carroll -
Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am resolved to follow where you lead.
Aphra Behn -
I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.
Elliott Gould -
Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is...
Anna Sewell -
Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon
Norman Mailer -
Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.
Keith Haring -
Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. Nor is it only political history which benefits most, for every historical landscape - political, economic, social, even geographical - is illumined by the intermittent flare of the event.
Fernand Braudel -
If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going.
Alan Moore -
In like a dimwit, out like a light.
Walt Kelly -
If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.
Pope John XXIII -
Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterward. A friend of mine, a soldier, put it this way. In most of our lives, most of the time, you have a sense of what is to come. There is a steady narrative, a feeling of "lights, camera, action" when big events are imminent. But trauma isn't like that. It just happens, and then life goes on. No one prepares you for it.
Jessica Stern -
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
John Quinton -
The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.
Antonin Artaud -
The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.
Bobby McFerrin -
Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color your not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song 'Cow.'
Billy Corgan -
By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone. . . But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on
John Mayer -
You cannot lift another soul until you are standing on higher ground than he is. You cannot light a fire in another soul unless it is burning in your own soul.
Harold B. Lee -
Honestly, the world can be a dark enough place. Light it up.
John Barrowman -
Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.
Dan Millman -
Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.
Gladys Taber -
I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it. All it says is 'Disappear Here' and even though it’s probably an ad for some resort, it still freaks me out a little and I step on the gas really hard and the car screeches as I leave the light.
Bret Easton Ellis -
If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.
Romain Rolland -
Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.
Adelaide Anne Procter -
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
Laurence Sterne -
Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius with all their media, and your host of elementals and ghosts of your dead loves â are there! They need no light by which to see, no words to speak, no motive to enact except through your own purely formed desire.
Austin Osman Spare -
Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic Gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies, pan-psychic hallucinations"this is the stuff, the phantasms of hope, that fills your book shelves. Come. Your glass is empty. Fill and forget.
Jack London -
Lady Limelight is a jealous lady. She wants all of your attention. You don't have any time to think of anything else but Lady Limelight, because pretty soon that light will be shinning on somebody else. So you better do it while you can.
Buck Owens -
The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea
Arthur Rimbaud -
I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.
Katherine Mansfield -
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
Anne Bronte -
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Robert Alden -
Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. Henry -
People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.
Joy Page -
How many people came and stayed a certain time,Uttered light or dark speech that became part of youLike light behind windblown fog and sandFiltered and influenced by it, until no partRemains that is surely you.
John Ashbery -
I'm attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I'm interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I'm interested in the things people try to hide.
Johnny Depp -
What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light of the sky.
Empedocles -
Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.
Alfred Jarry -
As you begin to understand the immense power and love you hold inside, you will find an unending surge of joy, light and love that will nourish and support you all the days of your life.
Susan Jeffers -
The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.
Anne McCaffrey -
So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.
Adam Schiff -
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
Boris Pasternak -
it is hard to believe when I'm with you that there can be anything as still as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it in the warm New York 4 o'clock light we are drifting back and forth between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles
Frank O'Hara -
And at that moment a wind came out of the northwest, and entered the woods and bared the golden branches, and danced over the downs, and led a company of scarlet and golden leaves, that had dreaded this day but danced now it had come; and away with a riot of dancing and glory of colour, high in the light of the sun that had set from the sight of the fields, went wind and leaves together.
Lord Dunsany -
Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light.
L. P. Jacks -
Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared.
Isaac Newton -
In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.
Robert Hunter -
We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.
Bo Lozoff -
Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.
Eugene Ionesco -
Some days are better than others ... It's been a long journey, but we're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel now.
Brian Robertson -
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
Corazon Aquino -
Art is a wound turned into light.
Georges Braque -
Sudden Light I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the light around the shore.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti -
I looked over at her; if women knew how good they looked in the dash light of oversized pickup trucks, they'd never get out of them.
Craig Johnson -
Art is not to throw light but to be light...
Kenneth Patchen -
Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in a automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at a terrific speed and driven by a four-year-old child. The signposts along the way are all marked "progress."
Lord Dunsany -
The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.
Corazon Aquino -
Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was black. So all light was absorbed before it had a chance to return. And our dreams, then, were empty.
Jim Carroll -
One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once, life would collapse. There are simply no definitive answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
Barry Lopez -
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
George Sand -
The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it... I had to start in the dark.
Judith Jamison -
In the alluvial sweep of the land, I thought I could see the past and the present and the future all at once, as though time were not sequential in nature but took place without a beginning or an end, like a flash of green light rippling outward from the center of creation, not unlike a dream inside the mind of God."
James Lee Burke -
As Heinz Pagels has said, The challenge to our civilization which has come from our knowledge of the cosmic energies that fuels the stars, the movement of light and electrons through matter, the intricate molecular order which is the biological basis of life, must be met by the creation of a moral and political order which will accommodate these forces or we shall be destroyed. It will try our deepest resources of reason and compassion.
Michio Kaku -
Find your Light; They can't love you if they can't see you
Bette Midler -
Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
John Mason Brown -
The weight of his losses finally too much to bear. But not before he has known the unforgiving light of the equator, a love that exists only in his imagination, and the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.
Anita Shreve -
The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood feeling of infinite things finally understood, the humiliating feeling of the watcher's nothingness.
Ayi Kwei Armah -
Moonlight is sculpture.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.
Gail Sheehy -
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Arlo Guthrie -
And I should mention the light which falls through the big windows this time of day italicizing everything it touches...
Billy Collins -
When I feel the heat, I see the light.
Everett Dirksen -
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
Louis D. Brandeis -
What darkness to you is light to me
Jules Verne -
Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .
Carol Shields -
There were days when no kid came out of his house without looking around. The week after Halloween had a quality both hungover and ominous, the light pitched, the sky smashed against the rooftops.
Jonathan Lethem -
It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.
Charles Kingsley -
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
Jean Paul -
After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.
Denis Johnson -
If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
Barry Commoner -
I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing one can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room.
May Sarton -
Faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows - standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but standing within every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
most hated by the dark, for their name is light.
Guy Gavriel Kay -
Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
Hedda Hopper -
War and tooth enameled salted lemon childhoods All colors run, none of us solid Don't look for shadow behind me I carry it within I live cycles of light and darkness
Suheir Hammad -
Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.
John Ruskin -
I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.
Louise Bogan -
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
Woody Allen -
The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.
Frank O'Connor -
In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.
Art Linkletter -
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
Freya Stark -
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
Matthew Arnold -
An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something else: the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights prevail over the shadows.
Felix Adler -
How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?
Jacques Plante -
You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.
Ben Vereen -
Cold metal walks across my forehead, spiders search for my heart. It is a light that goes out in my mouth...
Georg Trakl -
The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.
Abraham Kuyper -
Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten ... one has to go down into what one most fears and in that process ... comes a saving flicker of light and energy that, even if it does not produce the courage of a hero, at any rate enables a trembling mortal to take one step further.
Laurens van der Post -
Broken Window Theory: Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a few more windows. Eventually, they may even break into the building, and if it's unoccupied, perhaps become squatters or light fires inside. Or consider a sidewalk. Some litter accumulates. Soon, more litter accumulates. Eventually, people even start leaving bags of trash from take-out restaurants there or even break into cars.
James Q. Wilson -
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
George Steiner -
Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.
Ellis Peters -
Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.
Chanakya -
I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.
Christopher Fry -
I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.
Edward Bellamy -
Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
Franz Grillparzer -
To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music.
Jan Morris -
Light is the task where many share the toil.
Homer -
My wife is a light eater. As soon as it's light, she starts to eat.
Henny Youngman -
I must say this now about that first fire. It was magic. Out of dead tinder and grass and sticks came a live warm light. It cracked and snapped and smoked and filled the woods with brightness. It lighted the trees and made them warm and friendly. It stood tall and bright and held back the night.
Jean Craighead George -
It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.
Edward Burns -
There's more to light than the opposite of dark.
Ric Ocasek -
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.
George William Curtis -
Memory is a barricade against forgetting; light is a bulwark against darkness; life is a flex against the stillness of the grave. Maybe that's what I'm trying to do here, clear a space in all the debris, through all the anxieties and worries, where I can just exist, easily and simply, entire, for as long as I have left.
Helen Humphreys -
We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.
Bob Weir -
Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth.
Luther Burbank -
To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering light. Each of us will meet a different harbinger of personal failure, some innocent genius chosen by us for reasons having to do with what we see as our own inadequacies. The only remedy to this I have found is to read a writer whose work is entirely different from another, though not necessarily more like your ownâa difference that will remind you of how many rooms there are in the house of art.
Francine Prose -
A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.
Muhammad Ali -
A carnival in daylight is an unfinished beast, anyway. Rain makes it a ghost. The wheezing music from the empty, motionless rides in a soggy, rained-out afternoon midway always hit my chest with a sweet ache. The colored dance of lights in the seeping air flashed the puddles in the sawdust with an oily glamour.
Katherine Dunn -
I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love.
Joy Harjo -
For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.
Peace Pilgrim -
The sun sank with a sob and darkness waded in from all horizons so that the sky contracted and there was no more light left in the world, when, at this very moment of annihilation, the moon, as though she had been waiting for her cue, sailed up the night.
Mervyn Peake -
Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.'
Peter Benenson -
During the four days of the storm, I became accustomed to the soft light of lamps and candles and grew to like it. When the power came on again, I discovered that I was actually disappointed. The electric lights seemed cold and impersonal; they revealed too much.
Damon Knight -
But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.
Kenneth Burke -
Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.
Andrew Motion -
The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.
Algernon Blackwood -
Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.
Ruth Carter Stapleton -
Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.
Jean Ingelow -
The burden becomes light that is shared by love.
Ovid -
Years on end, and swords on end - where will it end, if our ears unbend - what shall I spend on a wrinkled friend in a pair of tights like a bunch of lights?
Mervyn Peake -
I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.
Jack Anderson -
With thee conversing I forget all time.
John Milton -
At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his glory, unveiling the whole face of nature, vivifying every colour of the landscape, and sprinkling the dewy earth with glittering light.
Ann Radcliffe -
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
Giovanni Ruffini -
Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.
John Milton -
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.
George Chapman -
Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. -Caroline Schoeder.
Caroline Schoeder -
As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.
Bruce Barton -
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light
Sallust -
Light reveals righteousness, and it also reveals sin.
Theodore Epp -
Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin -
I had extra thick light sabers because mine kept getting bent. I'd be halfway through a fight and it would be like 'Oops, sorry! Mine's bent again!
Ewan McGregor -
When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.
Bob Feller -
The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down
Bruce Feiler -
Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed; old interests and old beliefs have been destroyed before new ones have been created. These symptoms are the precursors of revolution; they have preceded all the great changes through which the world has passed.
Henry Thomas Buckle -
Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,/ In the dawn clouds flying,/ How good to go, light into light, and still/ Giving light, dying.
Sara Teasdale -
When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.
Yvonne Craig -
Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.
Robert Burns -
Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!
John Greenleaf Whittier -
Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the dawn.
Sarah Knowles Bolton -
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
Matthew Arnold -
That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.
Anita Brookner -
The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks.
Jim Dodge -
Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.
Ruth Rendell -
Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.
Ovid -
Light is the symbol of truth.
James Russell Lowell -
There are some things in the world we can't change- gravity, entropy, the speed of light, and our biological nature that requires clean air, clean water, clean soil, clean energy and biodiversity for our health and well-being. Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them. It makes no sense to elevate economics above the biosphere.
David Suzuki -
Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of the sight? Oh, tell your poor blind boy!
Colley Cibber -
Love is not consolation. It is light.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns into a dead machine, clashing and grinding on, without purpose or end. If the light within us be darkness, how great is that darkness!
James Freeman Clarke -
Children always turn to the light.
David Hare -
You truly help people with the things that you sell. Once you are aware of that vital piece of information every demonstration, every presentation, every transaction will be delivered with a light shining from your heart. From your heart will shine a beacon that tells all prospects you can truly help and that that is your sole purpose for being there.
Chris Murray -
The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past.
Alfred Bunn -
Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round
John Milton -
Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is.
Lyndon B. Johnson -
Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
Matthew Arnold -
I'm lining up my troops to go to battle with. Tarver is the man at light heavyweight. He has the credibility of the fans and media, and that's what counts. That's why I am taking this risk, but I am taking it by preparing myself with good people.
Bernard Hopkins -
E=mc2. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared
Albert Einstein -
Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.
John Milton -
Love is the light that you see by.
Bess Streeter Aldrich