Glowing Quotes - Page 9

• With Star Wars fans, there's so much enthusiasm, and it's a completely different generation now.

  Peter Mayhew

  Stars, War, Fans

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• Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Sacrifice, Suffering, Generations

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• The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

  Walter Lippmann

  Learning, Politics, Sensible

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.233, Harvard University Press

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• As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

  John James Audubon

  Nature, Science, Becoming

  John James Audubon (1831). “Ornithological Biography, Or an Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America: Accompanied by Descriptions of the Objects Represented in the Work Entitled The Birds of America, and Interspersed with Delineations of American Scenery and Manners”, p.7

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• Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there He can renew us.

  Amy Carmichael

  Loneliness, Wind, Burning

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• Ever at Thy glowing altar Must my heart grow sick and falter, Wishing He I served were black.

  Countee Cullen

  Heart, Sick, Black

  1925 On These I Stand,'Heritage'.

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• I must suppose that reading wonderful writers may, inadvertently, teach an avid reader a great deal -- not only about life and other matters, but about how to write. Therefore doubtless I have benefited from frequent immersions in the glowing genius of others. It would be nice to think so. (I do actually think so). But to improve my skills will never be the prompting force of my reading -- that's just literary lust.

  Tanith Lee

  Nice, Reading, Writing

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• Fate often allows a future to take shape with no regard for our expectation, plan, or readiness. Fate's skillful editing of our life choices is like the careful grooming of lads on their first day of school: combed, polished, scrubbed, newly dressed, and glowing too. This is how we become ready for our life lessons.

  David Richo

  Life Lesson, School, Fate

  David Richo (2007). “The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know”, p.91, Shambhala Publications

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• Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds you lay on, but also those desires glowing openly in eyes that looked at you, trembling for you in voices.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Eye, Voice, Desire

  C. P. Cavafy (2015). “Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy”, p.39, Princeton University Press

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• I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in the real world...plant a plant, walk the dogs, read a real book, go to the opera.

  Edward Tufte

  Dog, Real, Book

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• Moses goes to the top of the mountain and he comes back glowing, transformed. He became the vision.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Vision, Mountain

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• In spite of its glowing talk about the welfare of the masses, Communism's methods and philosophy strip man of his dignity and worth, leaving him as little more than a depersonalized cog in the ever-turning wheel of the state.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Philosophy, Men, Leaving

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.

  Criss Jami

  Victory, Movement, Floating

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.40, Criss Jami

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• In warlike pomp, with banners flowing, The regiments of autumn stood: I saw their gold and scarlet glowing From every hillside, every wood.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Autumn, Gold, Woods

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Disappointment, Night, Land

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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• Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another! Not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic, but mysterious, effectual, mighty as the hidden process by which the tiny seed is quickened, and bursts forth into tall stem and broad leaf, and glowing tasseled flower.

  George Eliot

  Love, Flower, Blessed

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3798, Delphi Classics

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• The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of beauty. To gaze with rapture at the stars That in the skies are glowing; To see the gems of perfect dye That in the woods are growing, And more than sage astronomer, And more than learned florist, To read the glorious homilies Of Firmament and Forest.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Stars, Sky, Perfect

  John Godfrey Saxe (1866). “The Masquerade: and other poems”, p.25

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• Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale gessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.

  John Milton

  Lying, Flower, White

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 142

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• Behind the curtain's mystic fold The glowing future lies unrolled.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Future, Curtains

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• And as long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress in righteousness will come to Israel for inspiration, as to the people who have had the sense for righteousness most glowing and strongest; and in hearing and reading the words Israel has uttered for us, carers for conduct will find a glow and a force they could find nowhere else.

  Matthew Arnold

  Inspiration, Reading, Israel

  Matthew Arnold (1968). “Complete Prose Works: Dissent and dogma”

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• The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Book, Rome

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• Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent reading, the feel and smell of the old blanket or toy, the nightlight glowing in a corner.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Children, Reading, Voice

  Siri Hustvedt (2012). “Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays”, p.48, Macmillan

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• If I were asked to explain the Japanese spirit, I would say it is wild cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun!

  Motoori Norinaga

  Morning, Sun, Spirit

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• Dad has, and had, a deservedly glowing reputation. However, this belief in 'reputation first' seems to have given rise to his fears of what might be rumored after his death.

  Jennifer Grant

  Dad, Might, Firsts

  Jennifer Grant (2011). “Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant”, p.7, Knopf

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• My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Joy, Soul

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.441, First Avenue Editions

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