Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Johnson

What about your mind, does it shine?

Isaac Newton

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

Jesse L. Martin

I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.

Jay Asher

Because when you're posed, you know someone's watching. You put on your very best smile. You let your sweetest personality shine.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

Gregory Benford

To shine is better than to reflect.

George Herbert

He that burnes most shines most.

George Herbert

He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.

George Ripley

Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Even money, which shines so much, spits sometimes.

Euripides

In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.

Francis of Assisi

Gold hath no lustre of its own. It shines by temperate use alone.

Cassandra Clare

I only count the hours that shine.

Janelle Monae

Beauty is about enhancing what you have. Let yourself shine through.

Ernie Banks

The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.

Cassandra Clare

And in addition to its practical uses, it would seem to work for cosmetic purposes. This powder would make my very skin glimmer for eternity." Henry frowned. "Not eternity," he said, but then he brightened. "But I could make you up another batch whenever you please!" "I could shine at will!" Magnus grinned at Henry.

Ken Wilber

I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.

Georgia O'Keeffe

My center does not come from my mind - it feels in me like a plot of warm moist well tilled earth with the sun shining hot on it... It seems I would rather feel starkly empty than let any thing be planted that cannot be tended to the fullest possibility of its growth...

Homer

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.

Leontyne Price

Be black, shine, aim high.

Lily Collins

Life works in mysterious ways but when you find your inner glow is back and shining brighter, you know it's right.

Lauren Oliver

Still, the vivid green of the grass-where the grass is actually managing to assert itself through the dirt-seems out of place. This seems like a place where the sun should never shine: a place on the edge, at the limit, a place completely removed from time and happiness and life.

Muhammad Ali

The sun is always shining someplace

Kathryn Bigelow

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

Oswald Chambers

The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.

Michel de Montaigne

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.

Marianne Williamson

I used to feel like I was waiting for someone to discover me, to 'produce' me, like Lana Turner at the drugstore. Utlimately I realized that the person I was waiting for was myself. If we wait for the world's permission to shine, we will never receive it.

Hans Christian Andersen

The sun shines upon good and bad alike.

Milarepa

In the gap between thoughts nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.

Jo Brand

As the Tories know, the problem with setting yourself up as a shining example for others to follow is that when you get caught out, that proverbial substance really hits the fan.

Emily Giffin

I don't convey that I can be moody or a perfectionist or that I'm a nervous person, but I am all those things. It's just not going to shine through when you're posting a picture.

Kevin Ayers

You can’t shine if you don’t burn.

Jonathan Swift

Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.