Bright Quotes

1996 Bright quotes by 1325 unique authors

(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices… — Jerome K. Jerome
The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of… — C.S. Lewis
The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if… — C.S. Lewis
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head As is a winged messenger of heaven — William Shakespeare
Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
And to all those who have wondered if Americas beacon still burns as bright - tonight we proved once more that the true strength of… — Barack Obama
The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a… — D. H. Lawrence
Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to… — Washington Irving
There would be little reason to lie down at night without the possibility of seeing things bigger and more amazing than the average day might… — Obert Skye
I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow, yes.… — Jacqueline Carey
Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be. — Rob Bell
Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite… — William Goldman
The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and… — Agatha Christie
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. ...Hope sweetens the memory of experiences… — Samuel Smiles
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt… — Ernest Hemingway
It was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into bookshops don't really know what they're after--they only want… — Mary Ann Shaffer
The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the development held no looming shadows… — Richard Yates
Tonight I walked around the pond scaring frogs; a couple of them jumped off, going, in effect, eek, and most grunted, and the pond was… — Annie Dillard
I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if… — Charles Bukowski
The morning air of the pasture turned steadily cooler. Day by day, the bright golden leaves of the birches turned more spotted as the first… — Haruki Murakami
Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows… — Friedrich Nietzsche
All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but… — John Lubbock
Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would… — Lewis Carroll
....avoid roasted cabbage, do not eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!" -Angela — Christopher Paolini

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