Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cam Newton

It's no secret that I am not afraid to shine bright and be festive, and I like to encourage that in others.

Talib Kweli

When you shine bright, some won't enjoy the shadow you cast.

Sophocles

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

John Webster

Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.

Michel de Montaigne

If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice, and that it is from her that she derives her reputation and honor?

Gabrielle Giffords

Your future shines bright - find your purpose and go for it. Starting tomorrow, you can change the world.

William Shakespeare

in black ink my love may still shine bright.

Charles Dickens

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

Charles Dickens

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

Charles Caleb Colton

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.

Charles Caleb Colton

Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.

Charles Dickens

What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!

Charles Dickens

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

Charles Spurgeon

When you speak of heaven, let your face light up...When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do.

Charles Spurgeon

The grace of the spirit comes only from heaven, and lights up the whole bodily presence.

Alan Watts

The question "What shall we do about it?" is only asked by those who do not understand the problem. If a problem can be solved at all, to understand it and to know what to do about it are the same thing. On the other hand, doing something about a problem which you do not understand is like trying to clear away darkness by thrusting it aside with your hands. When light is brought, the darkness vanishes at once.

Charles Caleb Colton

Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.

Charles Caleb Colton

Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so true genius will shine, even through the coarsest style.

Alan Jay Lerner

Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.

Al Sharpton

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

David Hume

That the sun shines tomorrow is a judgement that is as true as the contrary judgement.

Bob Marley

Oh let Jah love come shining in into our lives again.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.

Caity Lotz

I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.

Catherynne M. Valente

You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something of what has been lost.