Quotes by Light I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day. Joseph Barbera long-agolightfacts No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light! Jose Rizal oceanlightideas You go to pray; to become a bonfire, a living flame, giving light and heat. Josemaria Escriva flameslightgiving Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline. Jonathan Swift risinglightwriting For darkness restores what light cannot repair. Joseph Brodsky criminal-mindlightdarkness Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination. Jonathan Swift glasseslightimagination We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it. Jose Marti lightbreadmay All is beautiful and unceasing, Jose Marti lightbeautifulfirsts So you may look lightly upon a Scripture and see nothing; meditate often upon it, and there you shall see a light, like the light of the sun. Joseph Caryl lightmaylooks God is here. This truth should fill our lives, and every Christmas should be for us a new and special meeting with God, when we allow his light and grace to enter deep into our soul. Josemaria Escriva christmaslightjesus On the whole, love comes with the speed of light; separation, with that of sound. Joseph Brodsky lightsoundlove Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake. Joseph Conrad lightpastfall None of us are either all good or all bad - we're all somewhere in between - but there comes a moment in each life when we take an important step, either toward the light or toward the dark. Joseph Delaney importantlightdark Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good. Joseph Butler innocencelightaction Many houses were still full of light when, at the close of March 22, the people of the Círculo returned to their homes, which were gladdened with a fleeting gladness by an hour of justice - for there are still many slaves, black and white, in Puerto Rico! Jose Marti black-and-whitelighthome A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found. Joni Mitchell drugalcohollight Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed. Joseph Glanvill lighttimerivers You usually get one or the other, you get someone who knows how to tell a story but they don't necessarily know about light and camera and rhythm, or you get someone who can make beautiful images but they can't necessarily tell a great story. He does both and I think he's going to be one of the film-makers that our time is remembered for. Joseph Gordon-Levitt lightbeautifulthinking I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs. Joni Mitchell lightwantsong History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil. Joseph Heller electric-motorslightcountry«222223224225226227228229230231232»
