Shining Quotes - Page 28

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.

The earth, though in comparison of heaven so small, nor glistering, may of solid good contain more plenty than the sun, that barren shines.

Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.

I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.

Every photographed object is merely the trace left behind by the disappearance of all the rest. It is an almost perfect crime, an almost total resolution of the world, which merely leave the illusion of a particular object shining forth, the image of which then becomes an impenetrable enigma.

All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an anarchic joie de vivre. We glint when the wild light shines. The more suffocatingly enclosed we are - tamed by television, controlled by mortgages and bureaucracy - the louder our wild genes scream in aggression, anger and depression.

Because when you're posed, you know someone's watching. You put on your very best smile. You let your sweetest personality shine.

The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken.

Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.

It was too bad, but sometimes a little knowledge could ruin your whole day, or at least take off some of the shine.

As the sun's rays will irradiate even the murky pool, and make its stagnant waters to shine like silver, so doth God's goodness and tender mercy, towards the greatest sinner, and the blackest heart, make his own image visible there!

O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells.

There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.

We have always tried to treat every album differently and even from day one I think that each Asia album has been approached with care and thought and hopefully that shines through twenty years later.

Through the practice of meditation, when the mind is quieted and the emotions are calmed, the Soul shines forth in all of its glory.

When the sun shines, you let it shine on you

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

You can put in a curl or put on a lip color or mascara, but the important thing is that the health of your skin and hair is shining through.

If that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine, I'm a break that birdie's neck.

Because I've always been a runner I love to feel that my body is shining on the inside. I wear baggy clothes, so it's not as though I like showing it off. I just like to know I'm great on the inside.

If we do not share our stories and shine a light on inequities, things will not change.

So I say, if you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining, radiant, and righteously shameless