Shining Quotes

1891 Shining quotes by 1274 unique authors

There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people are never content with their lot, let what will happen. Clouds and darkness are over their heads, alike whether it rain or shine.… — Charles Spurgeon
I have worked very hard with Nehru. I told him he should be the light of Asia, to show all those millions how they can… — Winston Churchill
Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden… — Honore de Balzac
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and… — Honore de Balzac
more each particular person is(my love) alive than every world can understand and now you are and i am now and we're a mystery that… — E E Cummings
Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts,… — Charles Caleb Colton
The sun shines upon good and bad alike. — Hans Christian Andersen
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past… — John Dryden
If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any… — Louisa May Alcott
Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can blast the flower, Even when in most unwary hour It blooms in Fancy's bower. Age cannot Love destroy,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
When Spring is old, and dewy windsBlow from the south, with odors sweet,I see my love, in shadowy groves,Speed down dark aisles on shining feet. — Maurice Thompson
The angels decided to shine on me for a little while. — Lana Del Rey
Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, 'Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,' it'll be 15, it'll be 20. And… — Michael J. Fox
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. — Mahatma Gandhi
Because I've always been a runner I love to feel that my body is shining on the inside. I wear baggy clothes, so it's not… — Ellie Goulding
It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards… — Lady Gregory
Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption. — Phil Collins
A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism. — Jim DeMint
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and… — Charles Dickens
The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted. — Diogenes
Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them.… — Dave Eggers
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths. — Elizabeth I
Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would… — Lane Evans

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