Light Quotes - Page 220

I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.

"A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit."

To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry.

Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort.

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that, in the end, there is light in the darkness.

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.

Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars.

We know that Jesus could not have ascended to heaven because there is no physical heaven anywhere in the universe. Even ascending at the speed of light, Jesus would still be in the galaxy.

If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.

I always choose an area that is of personal interest, but I don't plan my travels in detail. There are so many variables one cannot predict: the changing light, weather, personal mood, and often just plain luck. Of course, you must have a starting point, so I establish some fixed points then improvise as I go. In many cases the locations seem to choose me.

For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born.

We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.

Some kids do drugs. Some kids light stuff on fire. Me, I eat oats.

Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline.

I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.

Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.

Language is the light of the mind

How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive?

The bottom line is, if somebody doesn't go through proper security screening, they're not going to go on the flight.

The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and up to our great mystery of command over them, and claims the fellowship of the creature if not of the soul.