Quotes with light

Quotes 261 till 280 of 381.

  • John F. Kennedy The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Georges Bataille The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Boris Becker The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • C. V. Raman The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.
    C. V. Raman
    Indian physicist (1888 - 1970)
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  • Felix Adler The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
    Felix Adler
    German American professor of political and social ethics (1851 - 1933)
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  • Bruce Springsteen The highway is alive tonight
    But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
    I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
    With the ghost of old Tom Joad.
    The Ghost Of Tom Joad (1995) The Ghost of Tom Joad
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Augustus Hare The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Milan Kundera The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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W. Bruce Cameron The loneliest, most down-on-his-luck person can have a dog who adores him. The most bitter, sour person can light up with joy when he sees his dog. It is magical, and as 'The Dog Master' reveals, it is biological - we evolved together.
    W. Bruce Cameron
    American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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  • Sophocles The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Jim Dodge The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks.
    Stone Junction (2004) 348
    Jim Dodge
    American novelist and poet (1945 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • James Baldwin The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Helena Petrova Blavatsky The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Matthew Arnold The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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