Quotes about light
light people darkness
With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel. Thomas Kinkade
light community important
The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists adopt new instruments and look in new places. even more important, during revolutions, scientists see new and different things when looking with familiar instruments in places they have looked before. It is rather as if the professional community had been suddenly transported to another planet where familiar objects are seen in a different light and are joined by unfamiliar ones as well. Thomas Kuhn
light long citizens
Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light. Thomas Jefferson
light leader climate-change
Change your leaders, not your light bulbs. Thomas Friedman
light two connections
I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament. . . . Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon. Thomas A. Edison
light black lasts
I see black light (his last words) Victor Hugo
light return instruction
Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.
light labor thoughts-on-life
Labor is life; thought is light.
light defeat deceiving
We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it. Vernon Howard
light vision matter
To look this way is to see. To see is to have vision. To have vision is to understand. To understand is to know. To know is to become. To become is to live fully. To live fully is to matter. And to matter is to become light. And to become light is to be loved. And to be loved is to burn. And to burn is to exist. Off and on. Robert Fulghum
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 stressed-out church
When I'm really stressed out, I go to church. I light candles and sit and pray. And I'll ask myself, What's the lesson? Why am I going through this? There's got to be a reason I'm here. What am I supposed to learn? Sandra Lee
light shadow emotion
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve. Roland Barthes
light shining darkness
But that's not to say that the potential for the sun to shine doesn't exist. You know? Walk down the path towards the light, rather than walk into the darkness. Roger Waters
light water rose
The weak grey light that serves as harbinger of red and golden dawn faintly lit my window. I fumbled for a candle, found and lit it, and by its little light saw that the rose floating in the bowl was dying. It had already lost most of its petals, which floated on the water like tiny, un-seaworthy boats, deserted for safer craft. "Dear God," I said. "I must go back at once. Robin McKinley
light remember like-you
Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light. Roberta Flack
light light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel train
It's the light of the oncoming train. Robert Lowell
light clouds needs
In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That’s both because of the physicality of computing–where the speed of light still matters–and because of geopolitics. Satya Nadella
light space
I am always searching for more light and space. Santiago Calatrava
light wind fire
Falsehood is fire in stubble; it likewise turns all the light stuff around it into its own substance for a moment, one crackling blazing moment, and then dies; and all its converts are scattered in the wind, without place or evidence of their existence, as viewless as the wind which scatters them. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
light language lanterns
Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light. Samuel Johnson
light perception enemy
It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception of consequences would control actions. That which increases the sum of human happiness is moral; and that which diminishes the sum of human happiness is immoral. . . . Blind, unreasoning obedience is the enemy of morality. Robert Green Ingersoll
light circles elephants
A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk. Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path, for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant. But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down. Rudyard Kipling
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.
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