Light Quotes - Page 211

Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective? And why was the Darkness able to manage perfectly well with truth in order to do Evil?

Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.

There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.

What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this. I don't want people to look at them and appreciate the light and the palate of tones. I want them to look inside and see what the pictures represent, and the kind of people I photograph.

You're like this little blip of light that lasts for a very brief time and you can shine as brightly as you choose.

What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.

Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.

We definitely tend to gravitate toward writing more on the darker side of life, but also incorporate the light at the end of the tunnel; you can see a positive in it.

'Don't be the moth. Be the light bulb.' When I say that I mean don't follow the crowd. Just shine. Be the light bulb. Do your thing. Pave your own path.

When you become a driver, they don't tell you that you have to switch languages. The drivers have their own language and they don't tell you that as girls. How am I supposed to know that blinking light means something? There are all these little languages that you have to know, but you don't know.

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover; and to promulgate the determinations of truth, whatever she shall dictate

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

I would like to enlighten people.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that the combination of landscape and lifestyle is the most compelling I've seen on this earth. Small mountain ranges and open prairie, and different weather, different light, all within a 360-degree view.

Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity.