Quotes with shine

  • An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
  • Shine like the day I set cosmic eyes on you, friend, by the light of the sweet squash in my lovely laser broom.

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  • Dwight L. Moody We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • James A. Michener An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
    James A. Michener
    American writer (1907 - 1997)
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  • Alan Cohen Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Anne Tyler But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Henry Ford Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Thomas Tusser For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.
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  • John Webster Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, but looking to near, have neither heat not light.
    John Webster
    English dramatist (1580 - 1634)
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  • Robert Benchley I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Emily Brontë I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Francis Bacon In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • M. R. Dehaan It's not necessary to blow out your neighbor's light to let your own shine.
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  • Adelaide Anne Procter Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.
    Adelaide Anne Procter
    English poet and philanthropist (1825 - 1864)
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  • Corrie Ten Boom Let God's promises shine on your problems.
    Corrie Ten Boom
    Dutch-American resistance fighter and autobiographical writer (1892 - 1983)
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  • Samuel Beckett Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy Light gatherer. You fell from a star
    into my lap, the soft lamp at the bedside
    mirrored in you,
    and now you shine like a snowgirl,
    a buttercup under a chin, the wide blue yonder
    you squeal at and fly in.
    The Light Gatherer, from Feminine Gospels (2002)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Buddha Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Francis Lockier No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad.
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  • Gerald Kersh Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no war, you die with clean boots on.
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  • Bradley Chicho Shine like the day I set cosmic eyes on you, friend, by the light of the sweet squash in my lovely laser broom.
    Bradley Chicho
    English poet
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  • Elton John So shine on through these days we have to fill.
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