Alight Quotes
41 quotes by 34 authors
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The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives that keep its field alight.
— Rupert Hughes
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On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten with the splendor of faith…
— Pope John XXIII
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Amanda Petrusich’s fascinating and insightful journey into the arcane netherworld of 78 records and its bring-‘em-back-alive collectors brims with the joy and passion of discovery,…
— Lenny Kaye
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It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.
— Winston Churchill
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Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy…
— Tahir Shah
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Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight.
— Siegfried Sassoon
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When you find your purpose, it is like your heart has been set alight with passion. You know it absolutely, without any doubt.
— Rhonda Byrne
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All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned this the hard way.) If one…
— Robert Greene
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One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.
— Robert Greene
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The road comes to an end just when it ought to be getting somewhere. The passengers alight, shaken and weary, to begin, all over again,…
— Stephen Leacock
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People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.
— Philip Guedalla
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most…
— Terry Pratchett
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You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets…
— Lloyd Jones
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She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I wonder,†he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again...
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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In Egypt, I loved the perfume of the lotus. A flower would bloom in the pool at dawn, filling the entire garden with a blue…
— Anita Diament
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