Lighted Quotes

110 quotes by 93 authors

My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It… — Ernst Mach
I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted. — Rachel Field
The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded,… — C.S. Lewis
A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a… — Rajneesh
The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant… — Thomas Carlyle
He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it… — Quintus Ennius
I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place. — Amy Poehler
The spirit of the year, like bacchant crowned, With lighted torch goes careless on his way; And soon bursts into flame the maple's spray, And… — Edith M. Thomas
An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even… — Max Planck
The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears...… — Bayard Taylor
The moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow, and swelling boss… — John Muir
I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out. — William Ralph Inge
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse. — Ed Koch
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep… — Albert Schweitzer
Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there… — Jane Smiley
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays… — William Shakespeare
I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with… — Sylvia Plath
I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an… — C.S. Lewis
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle. — P.G. Wodehouse

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