Lamps Quotes - Page 2

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear.

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

The Holy Spirit's power cannot be harnessed. His power cannot be used to accomplish anything other than the Father's will. He is not a candy dispenser. He is not a vending machine. He is not a genie waiting for someone to rub His lamp the right way. He is holy God.

Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life.

I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp.

Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?

There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.

Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge.

Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.

If you take from a theory only the conclusions you like and discard the rest, you are using the theory as a drunkard uses a lamp post-for support rather than illumination.

The cross-eyed fool sees one lamp as two; The vision and the viewer are one

Designers take care of everything around us. Everything that is around us, this table, this chair, this lamp, this pen has been designed. All of these things, everything has been designed by somebody.

I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

A genuine revival means a trimming of personal lamps.

God is the electricity and we are the lamps.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-lamps in the town.

Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the ground; whisk the lamps away.

We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.