Brightness Quotes

198 quotes by 164 authors

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
Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have. — Woodrow Wilson
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
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
[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
Money refused loose its brightness. — George Herbert
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. — Rainer Maria Rilke
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star. — Charles Richet
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
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
The studious silence of the library ... Tranquil brightness. — James Joyce
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
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
Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness. — Jimmie Davis
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
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
Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts. — Andrew Young
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
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
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

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