Light Quotes
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There's truth in light. You can tell what elements a star is composed of and the temperature at which it burns by the light it gives off.
James Turrell
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The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it
Ted Dekker
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When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in the intensity of the one feeling; thought, reflection, conscience, duty, the past, the future, they are names to her light as the breath which speaks them; her soul is full.
James Anthony Froude
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Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Quite simply I've distilled my mission down to the essence. The only thing I'm really here to do is shine light on people's lives through music, through laughter and to simply enjoy being with people.
Jason Mraz
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For me, Africa is a land of light and contrast. Black and white is the best way to express the solitary emotion and vitality of wildlife.
Laurent Baheux
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From every human being there rises a light.
Israel ben Eliezer
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Having failed, do you accept failure, saying only: Well, it is so. I will turn to other things? When night comes, do you accept the blackness of it, saying only: Well, it is so. I will turn and wait for morning? Or do you go on striving to light a candle against that dark however often the wind blows out the flame, however often the night returns?
Tanith Lee
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I don't think we should judge celebrities for doing charity work. Period. Whatever their reasons for doing it, they are shedding light on issues that would otherwise go unnoticed.
Liya Kebede
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Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on like very light and mysterious nogas, carving the whole litso of the creeching world with my cut-throat britva. And there was the slow movement and the lovely last singing movement still to come. I was cured all right.
Anthony Burgess
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I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.
Kevin McCloud
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If our so-called facts are changing shadows, they are shadows cast by the light of constant truth. So too in religion we are repelled by that confident theological doctrine... but we need not turn aside from the measure of light that comes into our experience showing us a Way through the unseen world.
Arthur Eddington
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In truth, I don't want to be there. I don't want to see the light go out of my brother's eyes.
Lurlene McDaniel
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I loved Bonny, and I always prayed that God would sneak in there and get a little light in her life.
Bonny Lee Bakley
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Although no credible evidence exists that the speed of light can be exceeded, writers are willing to embrace the possibility that light might be outpaced somehow. Never underestimate the persuasive power of somehow.
James Nicoll
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A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
Douglas MacArthur
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Where the light is, and each thing clear, Separate from all others, standing in its place, I drink the time and touch whatever's near, And hope for day when the whole world has that face: For what assures her present every year? In dark accidents the mind's sufficient grace.
Delmore Schwartz
