Shine Quotes

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. (Elisabeth Kübler-Ross)
I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine. View quote
Robert Benchley
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. View quote
Samuel Beckett
The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day. View quote
Dr. Seuss
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. View quote
James A. Michener
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine. View quote
Robert Bresson
Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish. View quote
John Jakes
Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To shine is better than to reflect. View quote
Gregory Benford
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. (Francis Bacon)
Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love. View quote
William Wordsworth
Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light. View quote
Adelaide Anne Procter
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts. View quote
Alan Cohen
In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine. View quote
Socrates
The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without a purpose, and when so complicated an organ was made to receive light, there must have been light to enter it. View quote
Louis Agassiz
If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine. View quote
Matthew Simpson
The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them. View quote
Chinua Achebe
An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
When the great markets by the sea shut fast All that calm Sunday that goes on and on: When even lovers find their peace at last, And Earth is but a star, that once had shone. View quote
James Elroy Flecker
You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am doing, what I am going to do, puzzle and bewilder me. Have you ever been a leaf and fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? That's the feeling. View quote
T. E. Lawrence
How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use, As tho' to breathe were life. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
It's a strange courage you give me ancient star:Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part! View quote
William Carlos Williams