Best Illuminate Quotations
162 Illuminate quotes by 139 unique authors
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Popular piety is one of our strengths because it consists of prayers deeply rooted in people's hearts. These prayers even move the hearts of people…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a…
— Mitchell Zuckoff
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I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I…
— Bill Nighy
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action...
— Gore Vidal
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Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face…
— Dogen
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The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or…
— Rachel Carson
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A good man's life is never quite ended; something of it always remains to touch and illuminate other lives.
— Edward Higgins White
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People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you…
— Arthur Gordon Webster
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I think movies should illuminate and teach, but that's for a certain genre.
— Jordana Brewster
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Withdraw now from the invisible pounding and weaving of your ingrained ideas. If you want to be rid of this invisible turmoil, you must just…
— Hongzhi Zhengjue
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Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant…
— Vera Nazarian
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Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and…
— Richard Armour
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Cancer is not something confined to human beings. It's found in all multi cellular organisms where the adult cells proliferate, so it's widespread in the…
— Paul Davies
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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.
— Francis Ford Coppola
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That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to…
— Francis Ford Coppola
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Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.
— Harvey Fierstein
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Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground,…
— Alan Moore
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I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.
— Will Smith
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it.…
— Gore Vidal
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What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can illuminate the present…
— Nawal El Saadawi
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I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as…
— Ambrose Bierce
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In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and…
— David Foster Wallace
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He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.
— Richard Brautigan
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