Quotes of Light - somelinesforyou

“ In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. ”

- Aaron Rose

“ You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. ”

- Arlo Guthrie

“ In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. ”

- Ellen DeGeneres

“ There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. ”

- James Thurber

“ What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness. ”

- M. C. Escher

“ Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine. ”

- Oprah Winfrey

“ Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. ”

- Plato

“ We burn daylight. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends — It gives a lovely light! ”

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

“ To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ At the end of the day, you either want or you don't want to know about it. It's a mercy thing - you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to. ”

- Thierry Henry

“ Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done? ”

- Matthew

“ There are two days in the week on which I never worry. One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow. ”

- Robert Jones Burdette

“ Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate. ”

- John Fletcher

“ Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of that day that says, "I will try again tomorrow.". ”

- Mary Anne Radmacher

“ When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. ”

- Leo Burnett

“ Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby. ”

- Ruth E. Renkel

“ The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. ”

- Patrick Henry

“ We are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and bandied which way pleases them. ”

- John Webster

“ At the end of the day, it's a way of taxing large corporations. Small businesses simply couldn't handle that type mandate, but perhaps it is does make more sense for large corporations. There's no easy solution to the nation's health care crisis and everyone is going to have to give some to craft a win-win outcome. ”

- Henry Thomas

“ To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life. Like being blown out as one blows out a light. ”

- Evelyn Scott

“ Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. ”

- Jennie Jerome Churchill

“ As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me. ”

- Peace Pilgrim

“ For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections. ”

- Peace Pilgrim

“ If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. ”

- Margaret Witter Fuller

“ A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward. ”

- Earl of Chesterfield

“ O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day! ”

- William Shakespeare
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