Light Quotes
10393 quotes by 5176 authors
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The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all…
— William C. Bryant
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As no darkness can be seen by anyone surrounded by light, so no trivialities can capture the attention of anyone who has his eyes on…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.
— William Bradford
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I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me. Woolly jumpers, Wellington boot, scarves,…
— Alys Fowler
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Listening to someone who brews their own beer is like listening to a religious fanatic talk about the day he saw the light.
— Ross Murray
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In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of…
— Thomas Paine
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Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.
— Norm Rice
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Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their…
— Joan Aiken
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Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions of fragile sensory nerve fibers,…
— Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle
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With psychedelics, if you're fortunate and break through, you understand what is truly of value in life. Material, power, dominance, and territory have no value.…
— Gary Fisher
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The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans, they light up…
— Gabor Mate
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I haven't felt the excitement for so many years. I feel guilty beyond words about these things. When we're back-stage and the lights go out,…
— Robert Hilburn
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How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome…
— James Thomas Fields
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Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas.
— Manuel Gonzalez Flores
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The root of masculine is stronger, and of feminine weaker. The sun is a governing planet to certain planets, while the moon borrows her light…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out.
— Lizette Woodworth Reese
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There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there is eternal spring,…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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Angels are intelligent reflections of light, that original light which has no beginning. They can illuminate. They do not need tongues or ears, for they…
— John of Damascus
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...rise above selfishness. This includes spiritual selfishness, when one looks toward personal edification and strengthening and has no other interest than one's own salvation. To…
— Hans B. Ringger
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The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in…
— Charles R. Brown
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