Brightness Quotes
198 Brightness quotes by 160 unique authors
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Rain Soft rain, summer rain Whispers from bushes, whispers from trees. Oh, how lovely and full of blessing To dream and be satisfied. I was…
— Hermann Hesse
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Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Blinded by the opaque veil of mortality, her eyes are always sealed, like a tomb She wants to know- wants to feel that fire, the…
— Jessica Sorensen
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Squeeze your eyes closed, as tight as you can, and think of all your favorite autumns, crisp and perfect, all bound up together like a…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived…
— C.S. Lewis
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These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.
— Neal Shusterman
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Hello, Harry!†she said. “Er — my name’s Barny,†said Harry, flummoxed. “Oh, have you changed that too?†she asked brightly. “How did you know…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I see all this talent, all this...this energy and brightness and...potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can…
— Jojo Moyes
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he…
— George Eliot
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Tessa was only half way down the corridor when they caught up to her -Will and Jem, walking on either side of her. "you didn't…
— Cassandra Clare
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Cheer up everyone," he said, a new brightness to his voice. "Since we’re all going to die horribly anyway, what’s there to be worried about?
— Derek Landy
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The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks…
— Christian D. Larson
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The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Remember that vision on the Mount of Transfiguration; and let it be ours, even in the glare of earthly joys and brightnesses, to lift up…
— Alexander MacLaren
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We Communists never conceal our political views. Definitely and beyond all doubt, our future or maximum program is to carry China forward to socialism and…
— Mao Zedong
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The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness.…
— Alice Oswald
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Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and…
— George Martin
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They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a…
— Stephen Phillips
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This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being…
— Charles Francis Richter
Who Wrote These Brightness Quotes
160 authors contributed a total of 198 Brightness Quotes, led by these top contributors: