“ Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake. ”
- Walter Lord- Copy
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“ Captain Newcomb lit a cigar and strolled slowly toward the post office, staring about him as he walked and trying to pick out places or buildings which he remembered. ”
- Joseph C. Lincoln- Copy
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“ You must be careful about giving any drink whatsoever to a bore. A lit-up bore is the worst in the world. ”
- David Cecil- Copy
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“ We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit. ”
- Robert H. Shaffer- Copy
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“ My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ Love was not given the human heart for careless dealing; Its spark was lit that man might know Divine revealing. ”
- Grace Goodhue Coolidge- Copy
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“ Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. ”
- Malcolm Muggeridge- Copy
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“ Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness… ”
- Peter Benenson- Copy
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“ Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that worked on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn list of good intentions. ”
- Joan Didion- Copy
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“ Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another…The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs… ”
- M. Scott Peck- Copy
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“ The work completed during the special session was just the beginning. During those six days we lit a spark that will positively impact the lives of our children and grandchildren, but the full fire is yet to come. ”
- Joe Manchin III- Copy
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“ The sun was like a huge 50-cent piece that someone had poured kerosene on and then had lit with a match, and said, Here, hold this while I go get a newspaper, and put the coin in my hand, but never came back. ”
- richard brautigan- Copy
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“ Those seemingly interminable dark walks between houses, long before street-lit safety became an issue, were more adrenalizing than the mountains of candy filling the sack. Sadly Halloween, with our good-natured attempts to protect the little ones, from the increasingly dangerous traffic and increasingly sick adults, has become an utter bore. ”
- Lauren Springer- Copy
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“ The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols… ”
- Louis Aragon- Copy
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