Quotes by Light When the light of the sun shines through a prism it is broken into beautiful colours, and when the prism is shattered, still the light remains. So does the life of life shine resplendent in the forms of our friends, and so, when their forms are broken, still their life remains; and in that life we are united with them; for the life of their life is also our life, and we are one with them by ties indissoluble. Felix Adler tieslightbeautiful As the light of morning strikes now one peak and then another, some being illuminated while others are in the shadow, so the light of the essential moral principle shines now upon one duty and then upon another, while others are in the shadow. Felix Adler shininglightmorning It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. It is too easy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end. Felix Frankfurter politicallightrights I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art. Ezra Pound lightchildrenart Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing. Evelyn Waugh drifting-offlightfall First and foremost an artist should pay homage to grandness, honour and bow to it, and not try to extinguish the fierce flames of such, in an attempt to have his own feeble light shine brighter. When one isn't able to acknowledge greatness, I would really want to know how he endeavours to make me experience it. Felix Mendelssohn greatnesslightartist When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity which delights you and makes you giddy. Ferdinand Hodler lightdarknesssky The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity. Ferdinand Hodler lightorderart To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet. Euripides lightsweetmen I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images Federico Fellini cinemalightdarkness No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking. Fay Weldon lightrealitythinking It's a subject that is often hidden and very secretive, but it's something which I feel should have a light shone upon it. Fern Britton domestic-violencelightshould-have 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. Nor is it only political history which benefits most, for every historical landscape - political, economic, social, even geographical - is illumined by the intermittent flare of the event. Fernand Braudel fireflylightdark According to the doctors, I'm only suffering from a light form of premature baldness. Federico Fellini doctorslightsuffering A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour. Ezra Pound splendourlightlittles Many a maiden, Euripides dancelightair The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun. F. Scott Fitzgerald lightearthsun These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail. F. Scott Fitzgerald shininglightdesire Just as the light and weightless vegetation of saltpeter floats over the old walls of houses as soon as the owner gets careless, so the literary vocation springs up in you. Federico Garcia Lorca walllightspring The world is a shoulder of dark meat (black flesh of an old mule). And the light is on the other side. Federico Garcia Lorca blacklightdark«116117118119120121122123124125126»
