Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandre Dumas

What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.

Albert Schweitzer

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

Albert Schweitzer

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

Richard G. Scott

Knowledge carefully recorded is knowledge available in time of need. Spiritually sensitive information should be kept in a sacred place that communicates to the Lord how you treasure it. This practice enhances the likelihood of receiving further light.

Ricky Gervais

When you get back into the editing suite in the cold light of day, the written stuff is better.

Jack Straw

The process of Turkish accession has turned into a lightning rod for other discontent,

Brent Weeks

Light cannot be chained.

Brent Weeks

How can one love the light and live in darkness?

Bret Easton Ellis

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.

Bram Stoker

There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

Bob Dylan

Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.

Billy Collins

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.

Boris Pasternak

I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.

Bridget Riley

I learned from Seurat this important thing about colour and light, that 'a light' can be built from colour. I learned a great deal about interaction, that 'a blue' in different parts will play all sorts of different roles.

Brigham Young

If we hearken to counsel, we shall be the best people in the world; we shall be as a bright light set upon a hill, that cannot be hid, or like a candle upon a candlestick.

Brigham Young

This doctrine of baptism for the dead is a great doctrine, one of the most glorious doctrines that was ever revealed to the human family; and there are light, power, glory, honor and immortality in it.

Brigham Young

The spirit of truth will do more to bring persons to light and knowledge, than flowery words.

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable...If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins, language and story bring light to shame and destroy it.

Bruce Springsteen

The highway is alive tonight But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light With the ghost of old Tom Joad.

Bruce Springsteen

The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.

Jane Hirshfield

There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the floor, or the one red leaf the snow releases in March

Jane Fonda

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat.

Jan Morris

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.

James Van Der Beek

I'm pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen.

Juvenal

Seek not to shine by borrow'd lights alone.

Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.

Blaise Pascal

True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.

Blaise Pascal

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

Billie Joe Armstrong

Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.

Bill Hicks

I...am an evolved being who deals solely with the source of light...in all of us in our own minds. No middleman required.

Bill Hicks

I've had seven balls of light come off a UFO...explain to me telepathically we are all one and there's no such thing as death.

Bill Hicks

The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.

When the lights come on you've got to play like you're young,