Light Quotes
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.Sir John Denham
It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.Richard J. Ferris, president, United Airlines
That grief is light which can take counsel.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.Anonymous
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
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health everything unconditional belongs in pathology.Friedrich Nietzsche
A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight, And walks with you in the shadows.Unknown
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
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.Hannah More
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color - Blind.Albert Schweitze
We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.Plato
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.Ed Koch
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.Charles Robert Darwin
I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self - Defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - - which is to demean oneself.Robert M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results It is foolish even to desire it.Euripides
The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.Edna Ferbe
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
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.Kahlil Gibran
People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight.The London Times
We don? t see the end of the tunnel but I must say I don? t think it is darker than it was a year ago, and in some ways lighter.John F. Kennedy, speech in 1962
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be happy.Mahatma Gandhi
The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.Desiderius Erasmus
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
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.Lao Tzu
I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.Doug McLeod
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
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
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.Douglas Adams
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.Buddha
The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ... and yet no endless sorrow.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.Spanish Prove
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.Mahatma Gandhi
Once in a while you get shown the light in the stangest of places if you look at it right.Jerry Garcia, Scarlet Bergonias
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.Carl Zwanzig
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
