Lamp Quotes

324 quotes by 244 authors

Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to… — Unknown Author
Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise dark… — Edward Hirsch
Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience. — Maurice Saatchi
Every step you take, a million doors open in front of you like poppies; your next step closes them, and another million bloom. You get… — Mark Slouka
The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of… — Yoshida Kenko
And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. Iâ€™m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean the God who… — Donald Miller
The Lady with the Lamp, the Statue of Liberty, stands in New York Harbour. Her back is squarely turned on the USA. Itâ€™s no wonder,… — Claudia Jones
Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the… — Khalil Gibran
O never star Was lost; here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea… — Robert Browning
Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have been if I… — Archimedes
God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die… — Khalil Gibran
To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore… — Edgar Allan Poe
The universe is wired with the electricity of God, & each of us is a lamp. It doesn't matter the size or shape of the… — Marianne Williamson
That's a big lava lamp. Congratulations. — Mitt Romney
Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are; One day a bachelor, the next a grampa. What is the secret of the trick? How did… — Ogden Nash
Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked houses, two up… — Alan Sillitoe
I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a… — Maya Angelou
Look atÂ The Adventure. A boat by night is a wonderful sight. This is the way to start a new life, with a hurricane lamp… — Tove Jansson
Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for one who is… — Chanakya

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