Quotes about light
light cities ideas
I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts. Terry Tempest Williams
light two voice
To hold silence and to be silenced are two very different experiences. And so another theme emerges, that of light and shadow. When we share our voice, who benefits? When we withhold, who benefits? And what are the consequences and costs of both?
light long shadow
Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light. Terry Pratchett
light together plot
You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though.
light tunnels black
All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it was an oncoming train.
light have-faith doe
As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith Terry Eagleton
light evil giving
Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are virulent poison, giving the numbing illusion of moral sanction to every depravity ever hatched. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason’s light. Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death. Terry Goodkind
light forgiving rays
Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive. Terrence Malick
light quests garbage
In her glamorous quest for the darkest light and the lowest high, she now found herself wallowing on the bottom of a filthy garbage bin. Terri Blackstock
light rude naked
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. Tennessee Williams
light elbows cigarette
Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.
light kitchen stronger
And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle...
light able anticipation
You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation. Terence McKenna
light tumbling sound
These things which are made of light and grammar and sound that come chirping and squealing and tumbling toward you. 'Hooray! Welcome! You're here!', and in my case, 'You send so many and you come so rarely!'
light cyberspace built
In cyberspace things are built out of light.
light imagination empowerment
Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
light pilots consciousness
I sort of see [cannabis] as the pilot light of Gian consciousness.
light air luxury-hotels
Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks. Teju Cole
light police publicity
As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity. Ralph Waldo Emerson
light law energy
The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.
light discovery shed
The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.
light mind world
The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.
light alcohol rare-moments
All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.
light world
The world we live in is but thickened light.
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 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 perception body
The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue. Samuel Johnson
light expectations waiting
Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.