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Light Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good and be grateful,…
- I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light…
- The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
- Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What…
- Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.
- The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
- The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very…
- When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
- Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given,…
- Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in…
- There is neither source nor end, for all things are in the Center of Time. As all the stars may be reflected in a round…
- Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and…
- The light is the left hand of darkness
- To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.
- I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
- To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
- More light!
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