Quotes about light
light world
The world we live in is but thickened light. Ralph Waldo Emerson
light musical culture
Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture. Scott Joplin
lightning beard insult
Never insult a mans beard, you either get thunder or lightning Si Robertson
light lotuses world
In the Lotus Sutra, Buddha says to light up one corner - not the whole world. Just make it clear where you are. Shunryu Suzuki
light shining darkness
I don't feel like I've done anything extraordinary but take my little light and shine it in darkness. Leymah Gbowee
light roles way
The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning. Vaclav Havel
light scotland rose
When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all around them and in between the hills there was a wide expanse of black bog. Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. "This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir?" he said. "My kingdoms?" exclaimed the gentleman in surprize. "Oh, no! This is Scotland! Susanna Clarke
light giving stupidity
You'd have thought we planned it," says Peeta, giving me just the hint of a smile. "Didn't you?" asks Portia. Her fingers press her eyelids closed as if she's warding off a very bright light. "No," I say looking at Peeta with a new sense of apreciation. "Neither of us even knew what we were going to do before we went in." "And Haymitch?" says Peeta. "We decided we don't want any other allies in the arena." "Good. Then I won't be responsible for you killing off any of my friends with your stupidity," he says. Suzanne Collins
light
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly. Sophocles
light speech second-best
Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came
light meditation disappear
Meditation isn't to disappear into the light. Meditation is to see all of what we are. Stephen Levine
light clouds shining
Buddha nature, is like the sun which is always shining, always present, though often obscured. We are blocked from our natural light by the clouds of thought and longing and fear; the overcast of the conditioned mind; the hurricane of I am.
light race world
Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it. Stephen Leacock
light dark-tower hungry
They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food. Stephen King
light long darkness
She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care which, she wad overcome with almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders.
lightning
Money can't buy off the lightning.
light bills checks
If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.
light television red
And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992. Star Jones
light law giving
Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. The law of contrasts is one of the laws of beauty. Under the conditions of our climate, shadow gives light its worth; sternness enhances mildness; solemnity, splendor. Varying proportions of size support and subserve one another. Sophie Swetchine
light feelings sensibility
Feeling loves a subdued light.
light way prison
And I never thought about how the lights don't go out, so you never really rest, in that way. I never really thought about the intensity of being watched, all the time. Those are some things that I didn't know about prison. Taylor Schilling
light green traffic
Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light. Taylor Swift
light darkness facts
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
light darkness existentialism
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
light justice shining
Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death? Marcus Aurelius
light practice looks
Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.
light darkness transmit
What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.
light discovery two
I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. Thomas A. Edison
light vivid-imagination firsts
We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.
light way doe
I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.
light able next
Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.
light steps failing
I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
light way found
I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one.