Brightness Quotes
198 quotes by 164 authors
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There is something so pure and frank and noble about Him that to doubt His sincerity would be like doubting the brightness of the sun.
— Charles Edward Jefferson
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Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper set the clouds…
— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
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The intrinsic brightness of theSun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the molten steel just issuing from…
— Robert Stawell Ball
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[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that…
— Bertrand Russell
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Money refused loose its brightness.
— George Herbert
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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star.
— Charles Richet
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Only an empowered personality can distribute the holy name of the Lord and enjoin all fallen souls to worship Krishna. By distributing the holy name…
— Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
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I don't know what good composition is.... Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming to restness and…
— Diane Arbus
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The studious silence of the library ... Tranquil brightness.
— James Joyce
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Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world; first a dawning, then a light; and at last the sun in his…
— Thomas Adams
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The earth in its rapid motion round the sun possesses a degree of living force so vast that, if turned into the equivalent of heat,…
— James Prescott Joule
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Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.
— Jimmie Davis
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I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the…
— Stephen Fry
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You can wake up every day looking forward to new adventures with hope smiling brightly before you because you have a Savior. You are baptized…
— Julie B. Beck
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Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
— Andrew Young
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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as…
— George Eliot
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God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter…
— Malcolm Lowry
Who Wrote These Brightness Quotes
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