Lamps Quotes - Page 3

Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

She wore a dress Ronan thought looked like a lampshade. Whatever sort of lamp it belonged on, Gansey clearly wished he had one. Ronan wasn't a fan of lamps.

Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps.

You are... you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before.

Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves.

Please listen to me - you are not paying attention. I am talking to you about the Holy Scriptures, and you are looking at the lamps and the people lighting them. It is very frivolous to be more interested in what the lamplighters are doing... After all, I am lighting a lamp too - the lamp of God's Word.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

For each believes his glimm'ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day.

He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future.

Our hearts are lamps for ever burning.

Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.

The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all.

Indeed, "Hera said. ―Porphyrion, the strongest of his kind. Gaea needed a great deal of power to raise him again —my power. For weeks I‘ve grown weaker as my essence was used to grow him a new form." ―So you‘re like a heat lamp,"Leo guessed. ―Or fertilizer.

The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.

In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.

Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared.

As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.

I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

Be a lamp unto yourself.

Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone besides yourselves. And those, Ananda, who either now or after I am dead, Shall be a lamp unto themselves, Shall betake themselves as no external refuge, But holding fast to the truth as their lamp, Holding fast to the truth as their refuge, Shall not look for refuge to anyone else besides themselves, It is they who shall reach to the very topmost height; But they must be anxious to learn.

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.