A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The gospel of Jesus Christ is good news, glad tidings, and much more. It is the message of salvation as repeatedly announced… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
You lose your sense of wonder the more you learn, right? When you go to film school and learn about moviemaking, you… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
“We've known each other for almost half our lives. I've seen you smiling, confident, blissfully happy. I've seen you broken, wounded, lost.… — Jill Santopolo Copy Share Image
We could never light another match, and if China continues to build one coal-fired power plant a week, we are doomed. China… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
When the sunset of life arrives, and its twilight shadows fade away; while dreams of the next begin to appear more vividly;… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
Kali is the goddess of destruction, the Clawed Hands, the Blood Drinker... And that's one side of her, as it is for… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“It always amazes me when taking off from a stormy airport, how once you reach a certain altitude and get through the… — Debra Moffitt Copy Share Image
“A brick could be used to help you get used to the fact that you’ve been used. I’ve been used to, so… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Human beings fear light and knowledge and power. There is a weird quirky sort of thing that happens with people. When you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Use gentle methods to get whatever good you can from priests and monks who are slaves, as well as from merchants and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
“In the beginning, the earth was without form, and void and the darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I don't sleep. All night long I'm wide awake, thinking, Secrets, secrets, secrets. There are secrets in my past no one needs… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
The heart itself is only a small vessel, yet dragons are there, and lions, there are poisonous beasts, and all the treasures… — Macarius of Egypt Copy Share Image
I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
A person who is assured of the love of God will see his fellow men in a different light and treat them… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We can never be afraid to stand up for what is right, no matter what others may say. And sometimes, if that… — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
“In Beirut, death’s unremitting light shines bright for all to see, brighter than the Mediterranean sun, brighter than the night’s Russian missiles,… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I have made a sculpture … you will never be finished with it – when you pass around it or see it… — Jørn Utzon Copy Share Image
A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage tells of a young boy's travels through the black heart of Depression American and his… — Lucius Shepard Copy Share Image
“I ran out of the darkened bar into the glaring daylight. it was so bright it took a full minute for my… — Carolee Dean Copy Share Image
There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
To look this way is to see. To see is to have vision. To have vision is to understand. To understand is… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I think if we all gardened more, they and all of the other birds that fly in the air above and light… — Vigen Guroian Copy Share Image
To die, is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her, Is self from self: a deadly banishment!… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“If I photograph you in the shadows, you become mysterious, perhaps unknowable. If I light you from above, so your eyelashes throw… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
No, the last thing she cared about was whether people were staring at the boy and girl kissing by the river, as… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Feel the love of God; then in every person you will see the face of the Father, the light of love which… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“He lay, often, looking at her sleeping face in the new light that fell in through the open walls of the strange… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have… — Ted Lange Copy Share Image
I don’t know why liberals want to disarm the law-abiding population, but I do know that not a single argument proffered stands… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
