Lights Quotes

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. (Erich Segal)
It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are. View quote
Jonathan Swift
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. View quote
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark. View quote
O. Henry
My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on. View quote
Joan Rivers
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. View quote
Muhammad Ali
There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on. View quote
Rod Serling
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. View quote
Peter Drucker
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights. (Giotto di Bondone)
The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory. View quote
Truman Capote
We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night. View quote
John Ruskin
Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, ''Go to sleep by yourselves.'' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help. View quote
Margaret Mead
Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. View quote
Fernand Braudel
Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Csar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy. View quote
Joseph Addison
The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards, actors, prompters, gaslight, and costume, And take for a worthier stage the soul itself, Its shifting fancies and celestial lights, With all its grand orchestral silences To keep the pauses of its rhythmic sounds. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Lights of the world, and stars of human race. View quote
William Cowper
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. (John Cheever)
There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
The people who fear humor - and there are many -are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities. View quote
Robertson Davies
Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade. View quote
Walter Scott
There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men. View quote
Michael Connelly