Light Quotes
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Modern research on conversion has demonstrated that, long after such an experience, a convert tends to confuse what actually happened in light of everything that occurs in its aftermath.
Bart Ehrman
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Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don’t think I can blame the heat.
Ian Mcewan
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If you nevertheless want to know what I feel when I release a bomb, I will tell you: I feel a light bump to the plane as a result of the bomb's release. A second later it's gone, and that's all. That is what I feel.
Dan Halutz
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A drainless showerOf light is poesy; ’tis the supreme of power;’Tis might half slumb’ring on its own right arm.
John Keats
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What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.
Scarlett Thomas
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I feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink as Vitamin D through the skin - and I mean, we are literally light-eaters - to then affect the way that we see.
James Turrell
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For when God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," if we are justified in understanding in this light the creation of the angels, then certainly they were created partakers of the eternal light which is the unchangeable Wisdom of God, by which all things were made, and whom we call the only-begotten Son of God.
Saint Augustine
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Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.
Albert Camus
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Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct the past to suit the present views and feelings of the writer; the other is a natual desire to set his own part in affairs in a pleasing light.
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
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The thing that makes vivid writing is when the reader is in the body of the story, the body of the character. Things smell like something; there's weather, there's texture, there's light.
Janet Fitch
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Customers long to interact with - even relate to - employees who act like there is still a light on inside.
Chip R. Bell
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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Your passions will grow as you continue to grow, so remember, it's never too late to reinvent yourself or pursue the latest things that make you light up.
Kathryn Budig
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Mindfulness brings to light experience in its pure immediacy. It reveals the object as it is before it has been plastered over with conceptual paint, overlaid with interpretations.
Bhikkhu Bodhi
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The lights in side the cage will tell everything you did or did not do in your camp!
Walel Watson
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To the extent that we can shine a light on the bad things being done, that's going to have a positive impact.
Ezra G. Levin
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In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Of all the joys of life which may fairly come under the head of recreation there is nothing more great, more refreshing, more beneficial in the widest sense of the word, than a real love of the beauty of the world... to those who have some feeling that the natural world has beauty in it I would say, Cultivate this feeling and encourage it in every way you can. Consider the seasons, the joy of the spring, the splendour of the summer, the sunset colours of the autumn, the delicate and graceful bareness of winter trees, the beauty of snow, the beauty of light upon water, what the old Greek called the unnumbered smiling of the sea.
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
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Access to the nebular heavens can be gained only by making the very most of the little light they send us.
Agnes Mary Clerke
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I believe a radiant, light-filled tomorrow should be normal to the experience of living.
Thomas Kinkade
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By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.
Esther Williams
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One does not re-light a dead cigarette.
Anna Held
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
John Berger