Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Foxx

Republicans are pushing legislation forward that will improve the effectiveness of and bring more accountability to U.S. foreign assistance around the world and bring democracy even further into the light.

Vincent Bugliosi

Waiting for the conspiracy theorists to tell the truth is a little like leaving the front-porch light on for Jimmy Hoffa.

W. H. Auden

The lights must never go out, The music must always play

William Cowper

How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.

William Cowper

A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.

Wayne Dyer

You'll never find light by analyzing the darkness.

Wayne Dyer

You can Light Up the Whole World by Giving without any Expectation Back.

Van Morrison

I forgot that love existed, troubled in my mind. Heartache after heartache, worried all the time. I forgot that love existed Then I saw the light Everyone around me make everything alright.

Ursula K. Le Guin

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Ursula K. Le Guin

It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?

Ursula K. Le Guin

Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The light is the left hand of darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin

Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.

Ty Burrell

I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I'm doing comedy.

Tristan Bernard

To lead others out of darkness, let them see your light.

William H. Gass

Some people say their life is full of darkness and I wonder why they don't just try and switch the lights on.

William Gurnall

Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.

William Barclay

The only way to get our values right is to see, not the beginning, but the end of the way, to see things not only in the light of time but in the light of Eternity.

Wilferd Peterson

Tolerance is understanding. It is open to new light. Those who are tolerant are always eager to explore viewpoints other than their own.

Washington Irving

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.

William Ernest Hocking

For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view of law is singularly empty of light and leading. In the dispersed sovereignty of modern states, and especially in times of rapid social change, law must look to the future as well as to history and precedent, and to what is possible and right as well as to what is actual.

William Hurt

It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.

William Butler Yeats

O would, beloved, that you lay Under the dock-leaves in the ground, While lights were paling one by one.

Walter Russell

He claims he has never known fatigue while obeying the law, but when he does break it he feels a sense of guilt in discovering the slightest evidence of fatigue which tells him that he has broken it.

Walter Russell

This whole electric universe is a complex maze of similar tensions. Every particle of matter in the universe is separated from its condition of oneness, just as the return ball is separated from the hand, and each is connected with the other one by an electric thread of light which measures the tension of that separateness.

Walter Savage Landor

Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.

Winston Churchill

The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward spoke of a time of evil that was coming upon the land his inspired mutterings struck terror into the hearers.

William Jennings Bryan

The money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

Virginia Woolf

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.