Quotes by Light Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know. Hugo Claus lightfeetlaughing You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher. Henry Ward Beecher lightrunningmen It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light. Hugh Prather lightfearthinking Everything is subtle. Everything has a million sides. Everything is a manifestation of god. Everything is light. All beings are infinite. All things are perfect, in their own way. Frederick Lenz lightperfectphilosophy I do have a huge problem, a huge problem. In fact, worse than watching is hearing. I cannot stand to hear my own voice. When it's coming out of my mouth right now it sounds fantastically interesting to me. It's rich in light and shade, it goes up and down. But when I hear it either on TV or even on someone's answering machine, I just sound like I've had half my brain removed. Hugh Laurie voicelightinteresting Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none. Herman Melville gaylightworld Good friends, how then are meditation and wisdom alike? They are like the lamp and the light it gives forth. If there is a lamp there is light; if there is no lamp there is no light. The lamp is the substance of light; the light is the function of the lamp. Thus, although they have two names, in substance they are not two. Meditation and wisdom are also like this. Huineng good-friendlightnames Every discovery opens a new field for investigation of facts, shows us the imperfection of our theories. It has justly been said, that the greater the circle of light, the greater the boundary of darkness by which it is surrounded. Humphry Davy lightdiscoveryscience Any avenue that you follow leads to light. All roads lead to Rome. Frederick Lenz romelightphilosophy If you follow anything far enough in the universe, it will eventually lead to light. Frederick Lenz lightenoughphilosophy We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked. Honore de Balzac back-homelighthome Amiability shines by its own light. Horace shininglight Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied grants of power. Hugo Black citizenshiplightnames Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night. Homer oceanlightnight Out of the shadows of night Henry Wadsworth Longfellow lightnightworld The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so that the sunlight has forgotten to find its way through, of what use can it be? Now, the Church is God's window; and if it is so obscured by errors that its light is darkness, how great is that darkness! Henry Ward Beecher errorslightdarkness As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so, in digging in one's soul for the fine gold of genius, much dullness and common-place is first brought to light. Herman Melville creativitylightsoul I don't like the act of talking; it makes me slightly light-headed. Hugh Laurie lighttalking If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand. Hugo Chavez lightmorningmen There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits, as are practiced in every man's conscience in respect to his motives, thoughts, feelings, conduct, and character. Henry Ward Beecher lightcharactermen«167168169170171172173174175176177»
