Shining Quotes

1891 Shining quotes by 1274 unique authors

The Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration.… — Marilynne Robinson
A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours… — Amy Hempel
It seems only yesterday I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I could shine. — Billy Collins
Sail on silver girl, sail on by...your time has come to shine all your dreams are on their way...see how they shine..oh and if you… — Paul Simon
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly… — Douglas Adams
In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work. ‘To set’ means here: to bring to a stand. Some… — Martin Heidegger
Tell me why the stars do shine, Tell me why the ivy twines, Tell me what makes skies so blue, And I'll tell you why… — Isaac Asimov
For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady… — Bess Streeter Aldrich
I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for… — Robert Louis Stevenson
A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead? — Robert Louis Stevenson
She stepped out from among their shifting confusion of lovely lights and shadows. A circle of grass, smooth as a lawn, met her eyes, with… — C.S. Lewis
It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day -- only the shadows were rather… — C.S. Lewis
Oh sky, without me, do not change, Oh moon, without me, do not shine; Oh earth, without me, do not grow, Oh time, without me,… — Unknown Author
And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological… — Jack Kerouac
...tell me the word that will win you, and I will speak it. I will speak the stars of heaven into a crown for your… — Stephen R. Lawhead
To see her is a picture- To hear her is a tune- To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June- To know her not-Affliction-… — Emily Dickinson
The sun shines not on us but in us. — John Muir
The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving. — Yann Martel
If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge -… — Charlotte Bronte
Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. — Maya Angelou
Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine. — Chuck Palahniuk
The world stands out on either side No wider than the heart is wide; Above the world is stretched the sky, No higher than the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
If the future's looking dark, We're the ones who have to shine. If there's no one in control, We're the ones who draw the line.… — Neil Peart
How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to… — Lewis Carroll
Digory never spoke on the way back, and the others were shy of speaking to him. He was very sad and he wasn't even sure… — C.S. Lewis

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