Light Quotes
The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.Desiderius Erasmus
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight.Henry Watton
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.Honore de Balzac
I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.Martin Luthe
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.Demosthenes, First Olynthiac
Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.Jim Rohn
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.John Owen
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy more tunnel.John Quinton
To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.Napoleon I
Over - Seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.Michael J. Gel
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This world we live in is but thickened light.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.John Gay
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.Chinese Prove
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.Richard Milhous Nixon
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.Unknown
Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.Amos Tversky
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.Theodore Roosevelt
Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.John Fletcher, 1647
What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.Vincent McNa
The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.Persian Prove
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.Nora Roberts
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.Jess Lai
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.J. Krishnamurti
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.Nathaniel Hawthorne
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.Albert Camus
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - - Such is a pleasure beyond compare.Kenko Yoshida
The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.Francis William Bourdillon
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.Theodore Roosevelt
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat.Woodrow Wilson
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.Helen Keller, "The World at Her Fingertips" by Joan Dash
Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight.The London Times
Take hold lightly let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.Spanish Prove
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.Albert Einstein
I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.Doug McLeod
I never saw an ugly thing in my life for let the form of an object be what it may - Light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.John Constable
It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.Richard J. Ferris, president, United Airlines
