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Shining Quotes - Page 24

You are heaven's Halley's comet; we have one shot at seeing you shine.

Max Lucado (2011). “Cure for the Common Life”, p.33, Thomas Nelson Inc

The sun was shining like a congratulation.

Margaret Millar (2018). “Experiment in Springtime”, p.95, Soho Press

Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge and shining parts.

Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.421

If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching.

Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.93, Oxford University Press

There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.129

That's what keeps me going. Everywhere I go there are young people with shining eyes wanting to tell me, "Dr. Jane, we're going to make the world a better place."

"Jane Goodall Trade Chimps For Bears In New Disney Movie". Interview with Carly Ledbetter, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2014.

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics