Quotes about light
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.
light poetry easy
Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.
light expression horizon
Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression. Sam Abell
light far-away curse
Somebody curse the light And take me far away from myself Rufus Wainwright
light mouths sides
Why didn't you guess this would happen?" Elayne demanded. He looked at her, expressionless. One side of his mouth twitched up, then he pulled his hat down, shading his eyepatch. "Light," Elayne said. "You knew. You spent this whole week planning with us, and you knew the entire time you'd throw it out with the dishwater. Robert Jordan
light mountain wheel-of-time
Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.
light poetry may
The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see. Robert Penn Warren
light justice patriotism
True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice. Robert McAfee Brown
light differences use
Nature has put itself the problem how to catch in flight light streaming to the earth and to store the most elusive of all powers in rigid form. To achieve this aim, it has covered the crust of earth with organisms which in their life processes absorb the light of the sun and use this power to produce a continuously accumulating chemical difference. ... The plants take in one form of power, light; and produce another power, chemical difference. Robert Mayer
light action heat
My position is perfectly definite. Gravitation, motion, heat, light, electricity and chemical action are one and the same object in various forms of manifestation.
light dimwits
In like a dimwit, out like a light. Walt Kelly
light air knees
Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime. [. . . ] You begin to get weak in the knees. Your head's in a whirl. And then you feel light as a feather, and before you know it, you're walking on air. And then you know what? You're knocked for a loop, and you completely lose your head! Walt Disney
light media world
Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world. Vinton Cerf
light world vices
Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us. Walt Whitman
light long healthy
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.
light self feelings
Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it. Tom Hanks
light skin-color feminist
Feminists do the best Photoshop because they leave the meat on your bones. They don’t change your size or your skin color. They leave in your disgusting knuckles, but they may take out some armpit stubble. Not because they’re denying its existence, but because they understand that it’s okay to make a photo look as if you were caught on your best day in the best light. Tina Fey
light actors rooms
As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room. Tim Crouch
light giving darkness
An increase in light gives an increase in darkness. Sam Francis
light pathways burden
Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways. Sam Ervin
light fats ifs
If we are what we eat, why aren't we new, improved, fat-free, and light. Sam Ewing
light quality obscurity
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity. [Lat., Majorum gloria posteris lumen est, neque bona neque mala in occulto patitur.] Sallust
light evil darkness
The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
light sun brightness
More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun. Ryszard Kapuscinski
light age links
Regardless of gender, marital status, or age, individuals can choose to link themselves directly to the Savior, hold fast to the rod of His truth, and lead by the light of that truth. By so doing, they become examples of righteousness to whom others will want to cling. Russell M. Nelson
light tasks speech
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. Roman Jakobson