Quotes by Light When I go to photograph somebody, they say, "What do you want me to do?" Those are the most frightening words in the English language. I want to say, "Please, go over into good light and do something unusual. John Loengard languagelightwant To view an object in the proper light we must stand away from it. The study of the classical literatures gives the aloofness which cultivates insight. In learning to live with peoples and civilizations that have long ceased to be alive, we gain a vantage point, acquire an enlargement and elevation of thought, which enable us to study with a more impartial and liberal mind the condition of the society around us. John Lancaster Spalding lightviewscivilization If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched. John Lancaster Spalding lightsoulmatter Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry. Jodi Picoult lightsorryboys Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause. John Dryden lightmenheaven Bryan Cranston has got such an incredible light touch. He comes in egoless, but with bold opinions, and he wants to play. He wants to play. And that's what I've seen in great actors all my life and what I've always tried to nurture and keep in myself is that joy of playing. John Leguizamo lightplayjoy That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light. John Main lightmeditationdarkness I live in the light, But carry my dark with me. John Marsden lightdark Already with thee! tender is the night. . . But here there is no light. . . John Keats tender-is-the-nightlightnight Colors are light's suffering and joy Johann Wolfgang von Goethe colorlightjoy Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others. John Mason Brown womenbecominglight Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes. John Locke gratefullighteye No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest. John Keats naturelightsummer By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone. . . But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on John Mayer momentslightgone The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine talents not often found together. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher - in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light ofthe past for the purposes of the future John Maynard Keynes lighttogetherpast When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out. John Green lightrealideas God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways. John Masefield lightsunspring You gotta be able to explain things to yourself when the lights go off and you get in the bed. You gotta deal with you at the end of the day. John Mayer the-end-of-the-daybedlight You can't light another's path without casting light on your own. John C. Maxwell castinglightmotivational I can't describe it in words, but I can see it in my head, its color, its light, its shapes, and I've managed to synthesize my love for myself by way of many different reasonings and processes, and I've been able to really synthesize my own satisfaction and things that do it for me. They've usually been self-taught, self-instructed, self-refined. So to be with anybody else has to somewhat lie in that comfort zone I've created with myself so well. John Mayer lightselflying«210211212213214215216217218219220»
