Shining Quotes

1891 Shining quotes by 1274 unique authors

So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. One man may fail to… — Homer
O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects, is dead and… — Rainer Maria Rilke
We who have touched war have a duty to bring the truth about war to those who have not had a direct experience of it.… — Nhat Hanh
She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of… — Maud Hart Lovelace
I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to the contrary, to… — Lance Armstrong
Don’t ask me those questions! Don’t ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have to suffer so much. Don’t… — Susanna Kaysen
Although we were not able to shatter that highest and hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you it has 18 million cracks in it,… — Hillary Clinton
I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it… — Emily Dickinson
A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance,… — Ronald Reagan
Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color.… — Eduardo Galeano
With so much sky and so much river, you couldn't help seeing the big picture. It was what you already knew, but crowding into the… — Melissa Bank
Even though life may have moved wearily and painfully through such a person, they have still managed not to let it corrode their soul. In… — John O'Donohue
But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn… — Ayn Rand
When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you. — Jon Krakauer
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun… — Michael Pollan
Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino! — Hilaire Belloc
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete… — Bill Bryson
I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of… — Sue Monk Kidd
The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And… — Lewis Carroll
The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if… — C.S. Lewis
I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will… — Sue Monk Kidd
The kiss was innocent--innocent enough--but it was also full of something not unlike what Virginia wants from London, from life; it was full of a… — Michael Cunningham
The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of being… — Unknown Author
Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken… — William Carlos Williams

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