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Light Quotes by John Steinbeck
- A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events, the…
- The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the…
- Some days are born ugly. From the very first light they are no damn good what ever the weather, and everbody knows it. No one…
- Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a…
- You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself every time that…
- It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
- A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to.…
- A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline again, but in…
More Light Quotes
- There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt
- You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in… — Richard Bach
- I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues. — Michele Bachmann
- The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. — Michele Bachmann
- Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs… — Michele Bachmann