Quotes about light
light sprung-up secret
It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has rested in millions of breasts and that has found a tabernacle and worshippers even in the desert - it seems that the triumphant Host of Lourdes and the Eucharistic Congresses of Chicago and Carthage remains as unknown, as secret as when it appeared for the first time in a room in Jerusalem. Light is in the world as in the days of St. John the Baptist, and the world does not know it Francois Mauriac
light defeat now-and-then
Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me. Lois McMaster Bujold
light order darkness
How swiftly the strained honey of afternoon light flows into darkness and the closed bud shrugs off its special mystery in order to break into blossom: as if what exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious Lisel Mueller
light jagged-edge ringo
I'm the light skinned version of Mandingo, I've seen more Beatles and Jagged Edges than Ringo. Ludacris
light disease publicity
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman. Louis D. Brandeis
light ears oar
On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar. Lord Byron
light years trying
The regular division of the plane into congruent figures evoking an association in the observer with a familiar natural object is one of these hobbies or problems...I have embarked on this geometric problem again and again over the years, trying to throw light on different aspects each time. I cannot imagine what my life would be like if this problem had never occurred to me; one might say that I am head over heels in love with it, and I still don't know why. M. C. Escher
light yellow lines
I've never seen the yellow light, umm the yellow line be wrong. Lou Holtz
light trying looks
When you find yourselves a little gloomy, look around you and find somebody that is in a worse plight than yourself; go to him and find out what the trouble is, then try to remove it with the wisdom which the Lord bestows upon you; and the first thing you know, your gloom is gone, you feel light, the Spirit of the Lord is upon you, and everything seems illuminated. Lorenzo Snow
light order common-sense
The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take common sense quantum sufficit; add a little application to the rules and orders of the House [of Commons], throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness and elegancy of style. Take it for granted that by far the greatest part of mankind neither analyze nor search to the bottom; they are incapable of penetrating deeper than the surface. Lord Chesterfield
light order rights
The world is in need of an encompassing and of course, just and humane order in the light of which the rights of all are preserved and peace and security are safeguarded. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
light consciousness awake
Consciousness, fully awake to itself, is the Light of God. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
light darkness bigger
The power of light is always bigger than the power of darkness.
light darkness problem
Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
light world fasting
The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself. Mahatma Gandhi
light darkness life-death
In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
light joy wish
I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.
light evil darkness
There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.
light suffering torches
Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.
light people wife
What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.' Gail Collins
light air environmental
Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable. Fred Upton
light color waiting
I smiled at the stacks, inhaling again. Hundreds of thousands of pages that had never been turned, waiting for me. The shelves were a warm, blond wood, piled with spines of every color. Staff picks were arranged on tables, glossy covers reflecting the light back at me. Behind the little cubby where the cashier sat, ignoring us, stairs covered with rich burgundy carpet led up to the worlds unknown. 'I could just live here,' I said. Maggie Stiefvater
light hands grace
Without turning on the light, I went to my bed and lay down, my arm thrown across the mattress, my hand aching because Grace wasn't underneath it
light self years
Inside the house, I turned on the kitchen light, revealing the photographs stuck every which way all over the cabinets, and then switched on the hall light. In my head, I heard Beck say to my small nine-year-old self, 'Why do we need every light in the house on? Are you signaling to aliens?
light flames forever
We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it’s gone forever. Haruki Murakami
light giving benefits
Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on.
light long-ago evil
Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow.... We do not know if the so-called Little People are good or evil. This is, in a sense, something that surpasses our understanding and our definitions. We have lived with them since long, long ago-- from a time before good and evil even existed, when people's minds were still benighted.
light doe hammers
Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
light sound heavenly
Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.
light shining needs
Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
light lines three-things
They tell you to memorize your lines, follow your light, and hit your marks. Those are the three things that you shouldn't do. You should not learn your lines, you should not hit your mark, and you should never follow your light. Find your light - that's my opinion. Everyone else will tell me I'm wrong, but that's my opinion. Joaquin Phoenix
light laughing literature
I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy. Joanne Harris
light years two
I've been breastfeeding for two years. I could light the gas ring with my nipples. Jo Brand