Light Quotes
In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.Haniel Long
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.Bernard Meltze
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.Edna Ferbe
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
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.Carl Jung
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.Isaac Newton
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.Maxwell Planck
An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.James Albert Michene
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
Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.Oscar Wilde
Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.George Eliot
But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.William Shakespeare
To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.Sir Walter Scott
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 1
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it.Jesse Lai
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
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.William Shakespeare
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
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.Seneca
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.Ed Koch
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
More light! Give me more light!Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.Carl Zwanzig
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.Charles Simmons
The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.Persian Prove
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
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.Alexander Smith
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.Albert Einstein
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.Samuel Johnson
As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be happy.Mahatma Gandhi
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.Jennie Jerome Churchill
He who would travel happily must travel light.Antoine de Saint - Exupery
