I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord… — Alice Coltrane Copy Share Image
In me there is darkness, But with You there is light; I am lonely, but You do not leave me; I am… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
I am the tree; alone in the green field. You are the sun; breaking through the dark clouds. Your bright light shines… — Jenyluv Copy Share Image
“Every piece of clutter you dissolve back into clear light allows your higher inner blueprint, your soul’s destiny, to translate fluidly and… — Penney Peirce Copy Share Image
Let us leave our old friend in one of those moments of unmixed happiness which, if we seek them, there are ever… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“It was as if a door had opened somewhere. Or possibly a series of doors. There was a sensation as of a… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Local esteem is far more conducive to happiness than general reputation. The latter may be compared to the fixed stars which glimmer… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
If you go far enough out you can see the Universe itself, all the billion light years summed up time only as… — Rolf Jacobsen Copy Share Image
It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It is a privilege to be recognized by FDLA. I am a staunch believer that as a member of the Bar, we… — Terrence J Copy Share Image
Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any; standing… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Banks watched the sun creep over the forest of oak trees and a crack of light broke through the night and grew… — Matthew McBride Copy Share Image
“And before me the empty table at the Theater Café with my reservation - Barnum Nilsen, 8PM - the only table no… — Lars Saabye Christensen Copy Share Image
On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
It is sparkling light, aromatic plants, a lofty palace, a flowing river, ripe fruit, a beautiful wife and abundant clothing, in an… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
I like drawing most everything I see, but sometimes the light will hit something in a certain way that I just cannot… — Jason Polan Copy Share Image
We are all made of flesh, of matter. And at the end, this matter is dissolved in light, and transformed into energy.… — Vittorio Storaro Copy Share Image
Just for today, allow yourself to embrace all that you are every moment. Know that you are a vessel of light. Allow… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
In a few more days I'd anticipated telling Veronika that our injections had cured her heart condition. But in light of her… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn't. Without the layeredrichness of direct… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
“But if there were some version of luminol, the stuff they use to find blood at crime scenes, to detect the presence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don’t bring the ocean if I feel thirsty, nor heaven if I ask for a light; but bring a hint, some dew,… — Olav H. Hauge Copy Share Image
And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have to run and hide. What I do at home sometimes is, I listen to a CD of the roughness… — Charles Bradley Copy Share Image
Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the… — Yuri Gagarin Copy Share Image
By the light," he said, when he had mastered himself. "I think that beats singing a lullaby to a stormdog for simplicity… — Alison Croggon Copy Share Image
Go deep into meditation. And by meditation I mean awareness, watchfulness, witnessing. It is only through meditation that the inner light begins.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In Silence the heart illumines; veil after veil is removed.In the heart shines the Light of Love.When the Light of Love is… — Kirpal Singh Copy Share Image
How extraordinary it is to be here at all. Awareness of death can jolt us awake to the sensuality of existence. Breath… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Sufism made use of the material provided by religious scholars that described knowledge as light. Going far beyond it, Sufi thinking was… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
In terms of 'American Horror Story' and 'Nashville,' what attracted me to those, and 'Friday Night Lights,' for that matter, is that… — Connie Britton Copy Share Image
“When in place of love you have grieves. And in place of glory nonfulfillment of hopes you earn, know that it's a… — Darmie Orem Copy Share Image
The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
