Flash Quotes

594 quotes by 504 authors

Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves… — Lewis Thomas
Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty. Prayer includes moments… — Philip Yancey
Suddenly, there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I have ever seen or that I think anyone has ever seen. It blasted;… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
We live in a flash of light; evening comes and it is night forever. It's only a flash and we waste it. We waste it… — Anthony de Mello
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting… — Katherine Anne Porter
He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but… — Margery Allingham
Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same. — Lydia M. Child
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. — Franz Grillparzer
Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy. — William Cowper
Lock yourself up in your room or go out in the woods where you an be alone. When you are alone the universe talks to… — Walter Russell
After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing… — Henry Adams
Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living… — Henry David Thoreau
The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It is through the… — Swami Vivekananda
A smile is nature's best antidote for discouragement. It brings rest to the weary, sunshine to those who are frowning, and hope to those who… — Dale Carnegie
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes… — Richard Chenevix Trench
I was the one small brunete among tall blondes. You only get one body, might as well love it. Nothing is the end of the… — Lucy Hale
One or another man, liberated or cursed, suddenly sees-but even this man sees rarely-that all we are is what we aren't, that we fool ourselves… — Fernando Pessoa
The motive for purifying yourself - that you feel spiritually impure - will prevent any genuine gain until you learn to love the impurity you… — Thaddeus Golas
All these disciplines are for the purification of the heart. And as soon as it is pure, all truths flash upon it in a minute;… — Swami Vivekananda

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