Quotes with light-penetrated

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  • Rodney Dangerfield My wife was afraid of the dark... then she saw me naked and now she's afraid of the light.
    Rodney Dangerfield
    American comedian, actor (1921 - 2004)
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  • Victor Hugo Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Annie Leibovitz Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • John Ruskin Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Aaron Burr Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
    Aaron Burr
    American politician and lawyer (1756 - 1836)
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  • Seneca Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Barry Lopez No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself... There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light.
    Arctic Dreams
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy Not a red rose or a satin heart.
    I give you an onion.
    It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
    It promises light
    like the careful undressing of love... I am trying to be truthful.
    Valentine, from Mean Time (1993)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Douglas Adams Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • William Shakespeare Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Arthur Erickson Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Arthur Eddington Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Barry Cornwall Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Carroll Quigley On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Woodrow Wilson One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Malcolm X One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Bill Bryson Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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