Light Quotes
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Religious liberty is the salt and light that has made us the great nation we are in a whole number of ways.
Eric Metaxas
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A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.
Marianne Williamson
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra Pound
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If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.
Nikola Tesla
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When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate "why," that great "why" is like a light that blots out everything, but a blinding light; nothing more can be made out.
Eugene Ionesco
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Every man as well as every day has its lights and shades.
Winfield Scott
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These things which are made of light and grammar and sound that come chirping and squealing and tumbling toward you. 'Hooray! Welcome! You're here!', and in my case, 'You send so many and you come so rarely!'
Terence McKenna
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There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
Blaise Pascal
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How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?
Paul Gauguin
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Women without love lose the light in their eyes, women without love die while they are still alive.
Elena Ferrante
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Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
George Eliot
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With my music, with what I do, I would like to bring a light into the world.
Michael Jackson
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The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.
Helen Keller
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It was strange to see that no matter what color the clothing first appeared—and they were all hues, from earthy copper and garnet to the blue of sky and shadow—in different light all turned to some shade of green, as if there were a third plane to the cloth’s weaving beyond the warp and weft.
Ellen Kushner
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I can like men who are a little light in the loafers.
Carrie Fisher
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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
Emily Dickinson
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And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.
Ernest Hemingway
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Love is the light that casts no shadow.
Elizabeth Lowell
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In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm light.
John Ruskin
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The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.
Brennan Manning
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The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow- an Elf!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Stars poked through like holes in the cloth of the sky and shed no light on anything.
Elizabeth Wein