Bright Quotes - page 6

Words are mighty, words are living: Serpents with their venomous stings, Or bright angels, crowding round us, With heaven's light upon their wings: Every word has its own spirit, True or false, that never dies; Every word man's lips have uttered Echoes in God's skies. (Adelaide Anne Procter)
They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge ... no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command ... But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth. View quote
Vitruvius
For a young man, sleep is a sure solvent of distress. There whirls not for him in the night any so hideous phantasmagoria as will not become, in the clarity of the next morning, a spruce procession for him to lead. Brief the vague horror of his awakening; memory sweeps back to him, and he sees nothing dreadful after all. "Why not?" is the sun's bright message to him, and "Why not indeed?" View quote
Max Beerbohm
We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
It is not bright colors but good drawing that makes figures beautiful. View quote
Titian
The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks upon the bright side, but trains every force that is in him to produce more and more brightness in his life... View quote
Christian D. Larson
One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine. View quote
Victor Hugo
Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open brow God has set the stamp of truth; one whose very eye beams bright with honor; in whose very look and bearing you may see freedom, manliness, veracity; a brave man--a noble man--frank, generous, true, with, it may be, many faults; whose freedom may take the form of impetuosity or rashness, but the form of meanness never. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them. (Thomas Sowell)
Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future. View quote
Guy Finley
The bright old day now dawns again the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread in Ireland, sword and brand and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days hail to the coming time. View quote
Charles Dickens
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it. ... I have myself observed that in states of extreme fatigue, when I am really dangerously physically exhausted, I suddenly get absolute knowledge; ... View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man. View quote
Joe Biden
Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids. View quote
Joe Biden
Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial All the time it's a changing, like now. View quote
Kate Bush
All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me. View quote
William Shakespeare
Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there In small bright specks upon the visible side Of our strange being's party-coloured web. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
My wind is turned to bitter north, That was so soft a south before; My sky, that shone so sunny bright, With foggy gloom is clouded o'er My gay green leaves are yellow-black, Upon the dank autumnal floor; For love, departed once, comes back No more again, no more. (Arthur Hugh Clough)
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold. View quote
Thomas Hood
How thrilling to discover one had depths, how consoling to find them less polluted than the shallows, how encouraging to identify the enemy not as a fissure in the will but as a dead fetus in the specimen jar of the unconscious. My attention was being paternally led away from the excruciating present to the happy, healthy future that would be enabled by an analysis of the sick past, as though the priest had nothing to do but study old books and make bright forecasts, the present not worthy of notice. View quote
Edmund White
Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from light blue to dark blue, to violet and then to black. What an indescribable gamut of colors! Just like the paintings of the artist Nicholas Roerich. View quote
Yuri Gagarin