Shining Quotes
1891 Shining quotes by 1274 unique authors
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Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining.
— SaigyÅ
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Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that…
— Charles de Lint
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We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining…
— Donald Hall
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When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence,…
— John Steinbeck
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[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
— Charles Dickens
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Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing,…
— Unknown Author
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The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve,…
— Ayn Rand
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The sun still shines.
— Sophie Scholl
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Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
— Anne Lamott
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He continued on, on to the glacier, towards the dawn, from ridge to ridge, in deep, new-fallen snow, paying no heed to the storms that…
— Halldór Laxness
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So if you ever felt something behind you, when you weren't even one, like welcome heat, like a bulb, like a sun, trying to shine…
— Martin Amis
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Win by losing. Before your outer walls break, as break they must, build an inner place to protect your truth. Protect that you are infinite…
— Richard Bach
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I found Him in the shining of the stars.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you. May the stars shine upon your faces!
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft,…
— Garrison Keillor
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Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.
— John Lennon
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Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a…
— Betty Smith
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There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind…
— George MacDonald
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There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly…
— Don DeLillo
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The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When the groundhog casts his shadow And the small birds sing And the pussywillows happen And the sun shines warm And when the peepers peep…
— Margaret Wise Brown
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in black ink my love may still shine bright.
— William Shakespeare
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[He] looked up and imagined the hand of God flinging stars like shining dust across the heavens. No. He was wrong to think such pagan…
— Francine Rivers
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Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.
— Anya Seton
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