Light Quotes
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.George Santayana
And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away... an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good - Bye.Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address, quoted on "We Interrupt This Broadcast" CD - ROM
Put out the light.Theodore Roosevelt, last words, 6 January 1919
By always thinking unto them. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light.Sir Issac Newton, On how he made discoveries
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.Samuel Johnson
A warrior of light knows that he will hear an order in the silence of his heart that will guide him.Paulo Coelho, Manual of the Warrior of Light
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.Kahlil Gibran
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.Albert Einstein
He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990
Death is as light as a feather; duty as heavy as a mountain.Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
I hope they never find out that lightning has a lot of vitamins in it, because do you hide from it or not.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1790
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.A. Bronson Alcott
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.Henry George
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.Mark Twain
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.Carl Jung
It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.Oscar Wilde
I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.Charles A. Lindbergh
Life is like an ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.Sharon Salzberg
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.Franois Maurice Mitterrand
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.Iris Murdoch
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.G. K. Chesterton
People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.Haniel Long
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is only seen if there is a light within.Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.Logan Pearsall Smith
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 1
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.Truman Capote
Knowledge is love and light and vision.Helen Kelle
Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, January 2004
Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it - - To that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.George Jean Nathan
Do not judge men by mere appearances for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.E. H. Chapin
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.Jennie Jerome Churchill
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.Alan Dean Foster "To the Vanishing Point".
We burn daylight.William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 4
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.Eugene Ionesco
