Light Quotes
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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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My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.
 Friedrich Nietzsche
					 
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I've stopped racing to get to the red light.
 Kyle Chandler
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Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.
 Helen Keller
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But my father, the man who was in my room and had turned on the light, he’d raised me. He’d tamed me with all the love that lived inside him.
 Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Transcendence remains because that light, all in everything, transcends the universe and the species it inhabits at this stage.
 Pope Francis
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Can we call the essay its own genre if it's so promiscuously versatile? Can we call any genre a 'genre' if, when we read it from different angles and under different shades of light, the differences between it and something else start becoming indistinguishable?
 John D'Agata
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Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
 John Ruskin
					 
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O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice of Your Precious Blood, filled with life and light. The purer we are, the more we receive.
 Ephrem the Syrian
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If Christians see Mormonism as a dramatic deviation from a millennia-old, biblically-based faith, Jews see Christianity in the same light.
 Meir Soloveichik
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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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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 forgot that love existed, troubled in my mind. Heartache after heartache, worried all the time. I forgot that love existed Then I saw the light Everyone around me make everything alright.
 Van Morrison
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When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.
 George Carlin
					 
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We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
 Bob Goff
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Remember, light and shadow never stand still.
 Benjamin West
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Light is something like raindrops each little lump of light is called a photon and if the light is all one color, all the "raindrops" are the same.
 Richard Feynman
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So now you know that, as dark as the depths of the sea may be, as dark as the night gets without a moon, it is not really true darkness. It's just waiting for light to return. There are places that are truly dark in this world, Ven, but this place here, this open stretch of sea where you are floating, is not one of them. It's not really dark here - it's just night. If you hang on and stay awake, in a short while the edges of the sky will start to turn gray, then pink, and the sun will rise, and there will be blue above and all around you again.
 Elizabeth Haydon
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The president has a right to discuss his national security policies with the public. But that should be done in the light of day without endangering our sources or methods. The public has no need to know details about intelligence assets or special operations units. Such disclosures endanger those who protect us.
 Peter T. King
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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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... while I am Death's daughter and walk in His dark shadow, surely the darkness can give way to light sometimes.
 Robin LaFevers
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When you've never gotten love from someone, you don't know what it might look like if it ever does appear. You look for it in everything: any bright light overhead could be a star.
 Sarah Dessen
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Devil’s Snare, Devil’s Snare . . . what did Professor Sprout say? — it likes the dark and the damp —” “So light a fire!” Harry choked. “Yes — of course — but there’s no wood!” Hermoine cried, wringing her hands. “HAVE YOU GONE MAD?” Ron bellowed. “ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT?
 Joanne Rowling
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You can tell it's good if you light it and a blue flame comes up; that means it's good moonshine and it won't make you go blind.
 Johnny Knoxville