Light Quotes

Freya stark - on the whole, age comes more gently to those who...
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
It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.
Richard J. Ferris, president, United Airlines
Titus livius - the populace is like the sea motionless in...
You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can see the whole trip that way.
E. L. Doctorow
Albert einstein - emc energy equals mass times the square of the...
More light! Give me more light!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is like and ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.
Sharon Salzberg
The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.
Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980
We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Albert Schweitze
Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
Jane Porte
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
Bill Cosby
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
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore
Put out the light.
Theodore Roosevelt, last words, 6 January 1919
A light heart lives long.
Irish Prove
Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather.
Jordan, Robert
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
M. F. K. Fisher, O Magazine, November 2003
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
John Updike
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Thomas Fulle
But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
William Shakespeare
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
Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.
Alastair Reid
Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls.
Jane Goodall
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
M Scott Peck
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.
John Owen
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert H. Humphrey
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.
Jamie Lee Curtis
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore
Energy is eternal delight.
William Blake
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
Ed Koch
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
Marquis de Sade
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Margaret Mead
You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
Samuel Johnson