Light Quotes
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I have been shown in darkness, light [and] have learned that, even in prison, one can be free.
Kayla Mueller
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Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!
A. P. Herbert
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There is strong shadow where there is much light.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be; There are no hearts like English hearts, Such hearts of oak as they be; There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be: There are no men like Englishmen, So tall and bold as they be! And these will strike for England, And man and maid be free To foil and spoil the tyrant Beneath the greenwood tree.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right
Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
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Remember, light and shadow never stand still.
Benjamin West
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Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?
Matthew Pearl
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My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.
Douglas Trumbull
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Mom had told me about that—she called it a dangerous light. It’s beautiful to look at, but it blinds people, she said, that kind of light. It’s not good to be out in it.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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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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There was a tear running down his cheek. It seemed like a river in the light of the setting sun.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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One of the frustrations of someone like Thomas Cromwell is that, before they step into the light of history, and become extremely well documented, they are not known. A king might be well documented but not everyone.
Hilary Mantel
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Mistakes are a natural part of growing up. They're to be expected and made light of. But children bloom like spring flowers under praise. They want so much to be noticed and appreciated, to excel and have that excellence noticed.
Earl Nightingale
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I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge.
H. P. Lovecraft
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O God, how easily I make them happy! Give me strength to be always the light of their lives and so lead them to You!
Mother Teresa
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It is so easy to take the violet flame and to use it that I am certain that once you begin you will recognize that the violet flame and the angels of the violet flame are the servants of the sons and daughters of God and the children of the Light, that the violet flame joyously serves you and acts to cleanse your entire being so that, as Jesus said, your whole body can be full of light.
Elizabeth Clare Prophet
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Sometimes we smile at a child thats afraid of the dark. I think more ridiculous is a man or woman afraid of the light.
Adrian Rogers
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Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.
Marshall McLuhan
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
John Berger
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The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow.
Sun Ra
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When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket.
Dan Snow
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I knew when I wrote the line “light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson” [from the song “Slow Jamz"] I was going to be a big star.
Kanye West
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Hours later I knew for certain I had felt the presence of this choking, slaving smell before, sometime when I was very young, inside my sleep, but this does not occur to me at the time. I come back out into the main room. I stand among the pictures and the light. I decide there’s no reason to report this, that I should not have come here, that I feel older than I ever had all through my blood. I feel dizzy in the middle of the photographs of her, the mirrors, a silent catacomb of eyes. That’s when I realize I’m being recorded.
Blake Butler
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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