Lit Quotes

442 Lit quotes by 364 unique authors

Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will;… — Robert Green Ingersoll
I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion-these lit by the Spirit of God. I have prayed for new… — Jim Elliot
Whenever I’d overhear how people found me to be ‘a bit much’ (which is the gentle way of saying the word ‘unbearable’), I understood why.… — Steven Morrissey
Love is the song of the soul singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets - sun and moon lit — Paramahansa Yogananda
That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot… — David O. Russell
Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held… — Thomas Harris
We had convinced ourselves that conditions wouldn't be right for seeing spokes on the lit side of the rings until about 2007, ... But this… — Carolyn Porco
Everybody is a candle, true. But not everybody is lit. — Harbhajan Singh
In moments of uncertainty, when you must chose between two paths, allowing yourself to be overcome by either the fear of failure or the dimly… — Adam Braun
People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit. — Mac Anderson
My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged to… — Wayne Thiebaud
One day Mara, the Buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw a man doing… — Jack Kornfield
Jesus is happy to come with us, as truth is happy to be spoken, as life to be lived, as light to be lit, as… — Francis of Assisi
I know a man who, when he saw a woman of striking beauty, praised the Creator for her. The sight of her lit within him… — John Climacus
Last time I went Intercity there were a couple across the aisle having sex. Of course, this being a British train, nobody said anything. Then… — Victoria Wood
The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love is like an eternal flame, once it is lit, it will continue to burn for all time. — Kamila Shamsie
Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of sunlight. You light a candle in… — N. T. Wright
Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame my brother Blackshirts until it illuminates Britain… — Oswald Mosley
This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home exists only in… — John Hodgman
We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We… — William Butler Yeats
I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain on fire. No,… — Jack Handey
I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each… — Mary Lou Retton
Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the… — Peter Benenson
A waste land lit by holy candles. — Sean O'Casey

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