Quotes about light
light defeat now-and-then
Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me. Lois McMaster Bujold
light order darkness
How swiftly the strained honey of afternoon light flows into darkness and the closed bud shrugs off its special mystery in order to break into blossom: as if what exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious Lisel Mueller
light jagged-edge ringo
I'm the light skinned version of Mandingo, I've seen more Beatles and Jagged Edges than Ringo. Ludacris
light disease publicity
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
lightning bugs fingers
I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings. Loretta Lynn
light ears oar
On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar. Lord Byron
light years trying
The regular division of the plane into congruent figures evoking an association in the observer with a familiar natural object is one of these hobbies or problems...I have embarked on this geometric problem again and again over the years, trying to throw light on different aspects each time. I cannot imagine what my life would be like if this problem had never occurred to me; one might say that I am head over heels in love with it, and I still don't know why. M. C. Escher
light yellow lines
I've never seen the yellow light, umm the yellow line be wrong. Lou Holtz
light trying looks
When you find yourselves a little gloomy, look around you and find somebody that is in a worse plight than yourself; go to him and find out what the trouble is, then try to remove it with the wisdom which the Lord bestows upon you; and the first thing you know, your gloom is gone, you feel light, the Spirit of the Lord is upon you, and everything seems illuminated. Lorenzo Snow
light order common-sense
The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take common sense quantum sufficit; add a little application to the rules and orders of the House [of Commons], throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness and elegancy of style. Take it for granted that by far the greatest part of mankind neither analyze nor search to the bottom; they are incapable of penetrating deeper than the surface. Lord Chesterfield
light order rights
The world is in need of an encompassing and of course, just and humane order in the light of which the rights of all are preserved and peace and security are safeguarded. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
light consciousness awake
Consciousness, fully awake to itself, is the Light of God. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
light darkness bigger
The power of light is always bigger than the power of darkness.
light darkness problem
Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
light world fasting
The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself. Mahatma Gandhi
light darkness life-death
In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
light joy wish
I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.
light evil darkness
There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.
light suffering torches
Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.
light people wife
What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.' Gail Collins
light air environmental
Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable. Fred Upton
light lasts horizon
Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon Norman Mailer
light attachment
Love without attachment is light. Norman O. Brown
light literature chuck
Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away. Norman MacCaig
lightning ability tact
Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt. Orlando Aloysius Battista
light wrath taverns
And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright. Omar Khayyam
light stones
Whatever is not stone is light Octavio Paz
light solitude world
The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness. Emile M. Cioran
light land want
When you sail on a boat you take with you the minimum of resources. You don't waste anything. You don't leave the light on; you don't leave a computer screen on... on land we take what we want Ellen MacArthur
light waiting educator
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present. Ellen Key
light fire long
Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us. Ellen Glasgow
light giving special
I find myself frequently placed where I dare give neither assent nor dissent to propositions that are submitted to me; for there is danger that any words I may speak shall be reported as something that the Lord has given me. It is not always safe for me to express my own judgment; for sometimes when someone wishes to carry out his own purpose, he will regard any favorable word I may speak as special light from the Lord Ellen G. White
light may looks
We must hold fast to the truths which we have already received; we must not look with suspicion upon any new light that God may send.