Light Quotes · Page 379

My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I…

— Jonathan Raban

Penicillin and plastic bags help a lot, fridges and hot water make manliness more comfortable and Tom Ford's fragrance range makes it…

— A. A. Gill

You choose to shine with the light of your own divinity, or you hide it with the shadows you create in your…

— Nirmalananda

The further we analyse the manner in which such an engine performs its processes and attains its results, the more we perceive…

— Ada Lovelace

“You are a light born to shine. You are not who the world thinks you are. You are not what you think…

— Kemi Sogunle

We could go back," he said. In the dome light of the car, his face looked hard as stone. "We could go…

— Charlaine Harris

“Soon a gentle light stole over the heavens, and gave me a sensation of pleasure. I started up, and beheld a radiant…

— Mary Shelley

I'm a great believer in relativity when making movies. Relativity, in my mind, meaning "Light to dark, big to small, good to…

— Gordon Willis

The history of the cosmos is the history of the struggle of becoming. When the dim flux of unformed life struggled, convulsed…

— D. H. Lawrence

Dappled sunlight and looked at the silver vapor swirling inside. "Mist gathered at first light on the first day of the new…

— Mary Pope Osborne

Even in Jamaica, your own country, coming into youth cricket you need to be from an upscale high school or have a…

— Chris Gayle

For a few minutes, maybe, life lingers in the tissues of some outlying regions of the body. Then, one by one, the…

— Christopher Isherwood

Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to…

— Max Muller

Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and…

— Charles Lamb

If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then there’s nothing that you cannot justify. There’s nothing you can’t survive,…

— Emily St. John Mandel

There was a lot of light and a lot of rumbling and vibration, especially the first minute or minute-and-a-half. And then after…

— Ellen Ochoa

Dovewing felt bone-weary from her ears to the tip of her tail. Just because she had better hearing, sharper senses than any…

— Anonymous

Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from…

— Eckhart Tolle

There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do…

— Henry David Thoreau

I wake up in the morning, I'll take a Boom Bod packet, you put it in the water, you mix it, you…

— Angelina Pivarnick

The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a…

— Adrienne Rich

Guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed.…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Thinking he knows can be a trap. An ex-professor once told him he had a diamond-hard intellect and he’d been flattered at…

— Margaret Atwood

Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed…

— Q'orianka Kilcher

Godly fear is loving and trusting in Him. As we fear God more completely, we love Him more perfectly. And "perfect love…

— David A. Bednar

Love is the great intangible. ... Frantic and serene, vigilant and calm, wrung-out and fortified, explosive and sedate -- love commands a…

— Diane Ackerman

There’s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if…

— Terence McKenna

Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising,…

— Ken Macrorie

And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes [in animal and vegetal substances];…

— Humphry Davy

“One of the less apparent but most profound consequences of domestic electric lighting was the encouragement of reading at home. Increased reading…

— David E. Kyvig

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and…

— Jean Cocteau

The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which…

— Wendell Berry

I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love…

— Pablo Neruda

“I embrace my shadow self. Shadows give depth and dimension to my life. I believe in embracing my duality, in learning to…

— Jaeda DeWalt

“From around the corner's edge a grotesque light was trickling out, the first intimations of an ominous sunrise over a dark horizon.…

— Thomas Ligotti

By keeping the Commandments the soul is purified and the mind too is enlightened, and starts to function as nature intended it…

— Dorotheus of Gaza

Marvelous,” she said. “Tell me about this tapestry.” Arachne’s lips curled over her mandibles. “Why do you care? You're about to die.”…

— Rick Riordan

In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false…

— Louis Kronenberger

It is rare to find a man who believes in his own thoughts or speaks that which he is created to say.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me…

— Anonymous