Light Quotes
Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - Of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance.Graham Clarke
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.Home
Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.G. K. Chesterton
Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.Anonymous
In saffron - Colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men.Home
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.George Goethals
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.W. B. Yeats
Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.Sri Madhava
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together...Carl Zwanzig
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.Maurice Chevalie
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.Jim Samuels
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.Mark Twain
To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.Sir Walter Scott
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self - Righteousness - - Each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - - Each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.Herbert Butterfield
Death is not extinguishing the light It is simply putting out the lamp Because the dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me Oh then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.Hartley Coleridge
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.Bernard Meltze
You have delighted us long enough.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.Christopher Columbus
It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.Richard J. Ferris, president, United Airlines
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.Coventry Patmore
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.George Santayana
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.John Masefield
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be happy.Mahatma Gandhi
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.Charles Dickens
lovers alone wear sunlight.E. e. cummings
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
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing.Epictetus
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.Plato
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.A. Bronson Alcott
Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals... must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.Isaac Watts
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.Henry Louis Mencken
We might do well to contain our elation at seeing the light at the end of the tunnel until we are certain it is not some guy on a motorcycle coming straight at us.Tom Fitzgerald
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.Alexander Smith
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one anothe.Theodore Hesburgh
