Light Quotes
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If a rock, though extremely hard, can be hollowed out by water, how much more so should it be possible for The Light, which is compared to water, to change my heart. I will begin to study it, and try to become a scholar of The Light.
Rabbi Akiva
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The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
Walter Gropius
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God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.
Saint Ambrose
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
Walter Scott
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The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Jonathan Swift
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I do so dearly believe that no half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Og Mandino
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Once or twice I`ve been described as a light comedian. I consider this the most accurate description of my abilities I`ve ever seen.
Bing Crosby
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A foot more light, a step more true,Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew.
Walter Scott
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If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.
Pitbull
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All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light. There was a time when I got hot under the collar if the critics said I had nothing new to say. Now I realise that they had a point. My field is the self-evident. Everything I say is obvious, although I like to think that some of the obvious things I have said were not so obvious until I said them.
Clive James
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White for light. White for love. White for forever.
Melissa de la Cruz
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I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.
Piers Anthony
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If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light.
Pope Benedict XVI
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Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.
John Milton
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
Larry Wall
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'Reformation theology' … pretends to prefer to Pharasaic ostentation a modest invisibility, which in practice means conformity to the world. When that happens, the hallmark of the Church becomes justitia civilis instead of extraordinary visibility. The very failure of the light to shine becomes the touchstone of our Christianity.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
