Quotes about light
light long burden
Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy. George Herbert
light two-sides people
When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty. Christopher Alexander
light nuisance fantastic
Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic. Christoph Waltz
light hair blue
[Kane to Rose] I'll never forget the way you looked walking toward me. I never thought that I'd have a woman like you in my life. It's all there etched in my brain. And now, the way the light pours over our hair, the way all that silk shines, so black it's nearly blue. The world disappears when I'm holding you. Christine Feehan
light shadow world
No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner world, the writer must live with hope, work in faith J. B. Priestley
light waiting answers
When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle. J. C. Ryle
light hundred certainty
Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther. Isaac Watts
light iron fire
Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what else is a burning Coal than red hot Wood? Isaac Newton
light stronger agents
As Attraction is stronger in small Magnets than in great ones in proportion to their Bulk, and Gravity is greater in the Surfaces of small Planets than in those of great ones in proportion to their bulk, and small Bodies are agitated much more by electric attraction than great ones; so the smallness of the Rays of Light may contribute very much to the power of the Agent by which they are refracted.
light degrees body
Do not great Bodies conserve their heat the longest, their parts heating one another, and may not great dense and fix'd Bodies, when heated beyond a certain degree, emit Light so copiously, as by the Emission and Re-action of its Light, and the Reflexions and Refractions of its Rays within its Pores to grow still hotter, till it comes to a certain period of heat, such as is that of the Sun?
light waiting inquiry
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
light body may
Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one another; and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles of light which enter into their composition? The changing of bodies into light, and light into bodies, is very conformable to the course of Nature, which seems delighted with transmutations.
light body transmutation
The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.
light people standards
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people. Irving Babbitt
light depth speak
My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth into light! Friedrich Nietzsche
light quality noble
Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.
light flying want
Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness.
light people forever
People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.
light desire intensity
Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light. Jeanette Winterson
light nuts balls
i'm a perfectionist, so i'm never satisfied with myself. i've always been psychotic about that kind of stuff--in a good way. i'm very disciplined. like the food and the whole thing, i'm always looking to "how can i eventually just turn into a ball of light and fly off the planet?". until that happens and God basically pull the blinds back, i will not be satisfied... if i found out that if i ate pine nuts for the next month i could see God, i'd be eating pine nuts. Jim Carrey
light politics doers
The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed. Jethro Tull
light darkness despair
Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear. Jewel
light atheism tongue
The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did; saying that which is made, is, and that which made it, is not. But this folly is infinite as hell, as much without light or bound as the chaos or the primitive nothing. Jeremy Taylor
light sorrow rubbish
Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish. Jennifer Stone
light guy hot
I'm attracted to a lot of hot guys. If Chris Hemsworth were here, I'd light him up like a firecracker with how fast I'd jump on him. Jeaniene Frost
light darkness i-can
You're the light I can never have and I'm the darkness you'll never succumb to.
light young said
When God said 'Let there be light', Mae Young threw the switch. Jerry Lawler
light goal littles
The only goal is in the process. The process is the thing…with little flashes of light here and there. Those are the gigs, those are the live shows. But it's the life in between—that's all I got. Jeff Buckley
light forgiving earth
If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light. Jean-Paul Sartre
light action humans
Positive human action is not only possible, but pervasive; human beings can improve and choose light and so on. And this is all happening. George Saunders
light optics fiber
In fiber optics, the cable is a light pipe or waveguide, into which you inject light. If a finger presses on the pipe, it disrupts that light within the waveguide. Jefferson Han
light darkness
Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.
light illumination order
People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.