Light Quotes
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light.Maurice Freehill
Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.Alexander Pope
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.J. Krishnamurti
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.Immanuel Kant
My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light.Edna St. Vincent Millay, "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920
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
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
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
And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away... an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good - Bye.Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address, quoted on "We Interrupt This Broadcast" CD - ROM
All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.Doris Lessing
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
The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.Francis William Bourdillon
I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.Mohammed Daud Khan
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.Gen. Peyton C. March
The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not.C. C. Colton
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help 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
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You - - You alone have the stars as no one else has them.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule.L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.
Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.Anonymous
Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.Washington Irving, American writer and poet
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.Honore de Balzac
Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.Helen Steiner Rice
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.Kahlil Gibran
Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.John Gay
That grief is light which can take counsel.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.Titus Livius
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.Persian Prove
A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off.Andrew Schneide
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight.Henry Watton
I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.Doug McLeod
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.Plato
