Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig van Beethoven

In whatsoever manner it be, let me turn to God and become fruitful in good works. Nothing higher exists than to approach God more than other people and from that to extend His glory among humanity.I will place all my confidence in your eternal goodness, O God! My soul shall rejoice in Thee, immutable Being. Be my rock, my light, forever my trust.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.

Luc de Clapiers

Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for.

Nicolas Malebranche

I am not my own light unto myself.

Nora Roberts

Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you've got a Christmas tree in the living room. All those presents under it, all that anticipation. Just a way of saying there's always light and hope in the world.

Nora Roberts

Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little.

Nikolai Gogol

[F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation...

Nikos Kazantzakis

Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God.

Nikos Kazantzakis

We have seen the highest circle of spiraling powers. We have named this circle God. We might have given it any other name we wished: Abyss, Mystery, Absolute Darkness, Absolute Light, Matter, Spirit, Ultimate Hope, Ultimate Despair, Silence.

Nikos Kazantzakis

I felt this was my duty ... to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my loins and transform it ... into light.

Nicole Jordan

It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning.

Nas

Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe...

Nadia Ali

I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.

Mircea Eliade

Light does not come from light, but from darkness.

John Ruskin

Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.

You've got to promise them a substantial raise, something they feel like they are working toward. You have to give them a light at the end of the tunnel, or we'll just keep losing them to the suburbs.

And keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate and obey the Apostle, so that mercy may be shown to you. (The Light 24.56)

All of a sudden, it's like a light went on for Kelsey about a month ago. I told her she was going to go out there and play, and she has.

The light and the serious go well together

Philip Guston

Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.

Philip James Bailey

For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.

Philip James Bailey

The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.

Pharrell Williams

I'm like most people. We just concentrate on the present. I live right where the film is going through the film projector and it hits the light.

Peter Bart

A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.

Peter Benenson

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.'

Penelope Wilton

People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy. That's just what I've observed.

Penn Jillette

I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.

Paulo Coelho

But in the end all religions point to the same light. In between the light and us, sometimes there are too many rules. The light is here and there are no rules to follow this light.

Paulo Coelho

You are the light of the world. Shine, and darkness will disappear.

Maria Sharapova

We all started under the sun and finished under the lights.

Megan Fox

If you're billed as a comedian, people will accept anything you say as light-hearted and not with intent behind it.

McKayla Maroney

You have to stay true to yourself and where youre coming from, and sometimes people see you in a different light, but you have to take it in and try to be positive about anything.

Max Planck

The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity of light. The velocity of light is to the Theory of Relativity as the elementary quantum of action is to the Quantum Theory: it is its absolute core.