Quotes with light

Quotes 281 till 300 of 381.

  • Black Hawk The pathway to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on yours, and that you may never experience the humiliation that the power of the American government has reduced me to, is the wish of him who, in his native forests, was once as proud as you.
    The Autobiography of Black Hawk (1833)
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  • George Orwell The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Cate Blanchett The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Matthew Arnold The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Audre Lorde The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Bhagavad Gita The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Thomas Hobbes The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Arnold Newman The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day.
    Arnold Newman
    American photographer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Kurt Cobain The sun is gone, but I have a light.
    Kurt Cobain
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1967 - 1994)
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  • Terry Waite The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
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  • Marquis de Sade The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, divine.
    The Practice of Psychotherapy (1953) p. 364
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Albert Pike The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Beth Orton The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio.
    Beth Orton
    English singer-songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc..
    Two Essays in Analytical Psychology In CW 7 p. 188
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Sir Walter Scott The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Beryl Markham The world grows bigger as the light leaves it. There are no boundaries and no landmarks. The trees and the rocks and the anthills begin to disappear, one by one, whisked away under the magical cloak of evening.
    Beryl Markham
    English-born Kenyan aviator, racehorse trainer and author (1902 - 1986)
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  • Alan Cohen The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Bram Stoker There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
    Dracula
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Stephen Hawking There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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