Light Quotes
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.Jennie Jerome Churchill
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
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.Hazrat Inayat Khan
The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.Robert Hutchins
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
What more felicity can fall to creature, Than to enjoy delight with liberty.Spenser, Fate of the Butterfly
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.Dag Hammarskjold
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.Dr. Martin Luther King
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.Thomas Paine
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.Karl Kraus
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.William Shakespeare
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.Henry David Thoreau
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures...Geronimo
We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.David Weatherford
The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not.C. C. Colton
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.Max Planck
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.Thomas Fulle
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it.Jesse Lai
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante
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
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.Lyndon Johnson
When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.Frank Outlaw
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.John Berry, Flight of White Crows
It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be.Benjamin Johnson
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.Thomas Jefferson
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.Edwin P. Whipple
Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004
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
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
Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather.Jordan, Robert
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
Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.Francis Quarles
I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.Doug McLeod
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
