Lightness Quotes

92 quotes by 78 authors

Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And… — William Shakespeare
Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness. — Pablo Picasso
He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech. — William Cowper
O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May? — John Keats
My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form. — Milan Kundera
If you go on a mission to preach the gospel with lightness and frivolity in your hearts, looking for this and that, and to learn… — Brigham Young
Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate,… — Bayard Taylor
Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. — Joan Lunden
Simplicate, and add lightness! — William Bushnell Stout
It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And… — Lisa Unger
Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and… — Benjamin Disraeli
The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe. — Arthur Erickson
Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our… — William James
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.… — Steve Jobs
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you… — Joan Lunden
I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great… — Julia Roberts
Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God. — Ellen G. White
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground. — Frank Lloyd Wright
To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowledge had a… — Henry James
A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness. — Margaret Atwood

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