Light Quotes - page 22

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement. (Robert Delaunay)
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise. View quote
George Chapman
The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter. View quote
Alexander Graham Bell
In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time. View quote
Albert Camus
O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer. View quote
Albert Camus
Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing. View quote
Prudentius
Blessed are they who, in the calm moments of retirement, of worship, of prayer, of silent waiting, have found that to "the weary and heavy laden " Christ can indeed give rest; that compared with the heavy bondage of the world or the exactions of human systems, His yoke indeed is easy, and His burden is light. View quote
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Once you get it into your head that somebody is controlling events, you can interpret everything in that light and find no reasonable certainty anywhere. View quote
Isaac Asimov
In the light of fuller day, Of purer science, holier laws. View quote
Charles Kingsley
Do you feel that you have lost your way in life? Then God Himself will show you your way. Are you utterly helpless, worn out, body and soul? Then God's eternal love is ready and willing to help you up, and revive you. Are you wearied with doubts and terrors? Then God's eternal light is ready to show you your way; God's eternal peace ready to give you peace. Do you feel yourself full of sins and faults? Then take heart; for God's unchangeable will is, to take away those sins, and purge you from those faults. View quote
Charles Kingsley
In appointing our Ambassador to the United States at this important time, with the 1936 crisis ahead, such considerations as dignity, past career, equity and sentiment must be discarded and a man of ability chosen in the interests of the country. In the light of these considerations, we find Hiroshi Saito, present Minister of Holland, the right person for the post. (Sadao Araki)
I am confident that the day is not far distant when the light of peace shine again. View quote
Iwane Matsui
I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time - a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution, where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment... only to vanish forever. View quote
Alan Watts
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. View quote
Henry George
My primary object is to defend and advance a principle in which I see the only possible relief from much that enthralls and degrades and distorts, turning light to darkness and good to evil, rather than to gage a philosopher or weigh a philosophy. Yet the examination I propose must lead to a decisive judgment upon both. View quote
Henry George
See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them. View quote
Paul Cézanne
It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
... the Coleman lantern is the symbol of the camping craze that is currently sweeping America, with its unholy white light burning in the forests of America. View quote
Richard Brautigan
There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e's, the flying buttresses of d's, the t's like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word. View quote
Malcolm Lowry
Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work. View quote
Andy Goldsworthy
Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight The Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and strikes The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light. (Omar Khayyám)
When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone. View quote
Muhammad Ali
The cloud controls the light.[...]It is the cloud that, holding the sun's rays in a sheaf as a giant holds a handful of spears, strikes the horizon, touches the extreme edge with a delicate revelation of light, or suddenly puts it out and makes the foreground shine. View quote
Alice Meynell