Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Gore

In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.

Charles Darwin

As some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility.

Charles Darwin

It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Who can explain gravity? No one now objects to following out the results consequent on this unknown element of attraction...

Brad Wilkerson

Light up a spliff and hit the strip club.

Barry Hannah

I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.

Barry Goldwater

We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. "L.B.J." should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.

Antonio Machado

All our efforts must tend towards light.

Antonio Machado

No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.

Antonio Porchia

Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.

Antonio Porchia

No one is a light unto himself, not even the sun.

Antonio Porchia

You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.

Bruce Lee

Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.

Bruce Lee

No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.

Bruce Lee

If there is always light, you don’t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness.

Brittany Snow

My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on "The Guiding Light".

Edmund Clarence Stedman

No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan-- Full of gasconade and bravado, But a regular, rich Don Rataplane, Santa Claus de la Muscavado, Senor Grandissimo Bastinado! His was the rental of half Havana And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana, Rich as he was, could hardly hold A candle to light the mines of gold Our Cuban owned.

Edmund Burke

Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.

Edmund Burke

It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory view, appear equal to first principles. They are light and portable. They are as current as copper coin; and about as valuable.

Eckhart Tolle

Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger

Eckhart Tolle

Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.

Eckhart Tolle

The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

So it is essential to bring more consciousness into your life in ordinary situations when everything is going relatively smoothly. In this way, you grow in presence power. It generates an energy field in you and around you of a high vibrational frequency. No unconsciousness , no negativity, no discord or violence can enter that field and survive, just as darkness cannot survive in the presence of light.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

There is light in the world, and it is us!

Edward Snowden

When the lights go out at a power plant sometime in the future, we're going to know that that's a consequence of deprioritizing defense for the sake of an advantage in terms of offense.

Edward Snowden

I took what I knew to the public, so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice.

We shot lights out tonight. We started to get some stops in the second half. We were just torrid from the outside, especially in the second half.

Anne Lamott

He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.

Anne Lamott

The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours; it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness; if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself.

Anna Akhmatova

And you know, I agree to everything: I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will be light and sin lovely.

Ann Voskamp

The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.

Albert Finney

There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head.

Albert Claude

I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at the blurred boundary which concealed the mysterious ground substance where the secret mechanisms of cell life might be found.