Light Upon Quotes

29 quotes by 27 authors

A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness. — Marcel Proust
There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive,… — Victor Hugo
The doctrine of pre-existence pours a wonderful flood of light upon the otherwise mysterious problem of man's origin. It shows that man, as a spirit,… — Heber J. Grant
Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime,… — James A. Garfield
A flock of blessings light upon thy back — William Shakespeare
Upon the whole I doubt whether the Benefits of opposition to the Constitution opposition to the Constitution will not ultimately be productive of more good… — George Washington
The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy,… — Abraham Lincoln
The money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. — William Jennings Bryan
A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a… — Walter de La Mare
In the first section of the Doctrine and Covenants we read that 'the Lord shall come to recompense unto every man according to his work,… — Mark E. Petersen
The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have… — Victor Hugo
All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines;… — Theodore Roethke
There is not a single darkness if you life that God cannot bring His light upon. — Beth Moore
Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny. — Pope John Paul II
Do not Bodies and Light act mutually upon one another; that is to say, Bodies upon Light in emitting, reflecting, refracting and inflecting it, and… — Isaac Newton
As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Sexuality throws no light upon love, but only through love can we learn to understand sexuality. — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it. — Ambrose Bierce
Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language. — Kenneth Burke
The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber. — Lew Wallace

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