Lamps Quotes - Page 13

• I have a bit of a lava lamp fetish. They are kind of hideous, but there is something so therapeutic about them.

  Bella Heathcote

  Lava Lamps, Kind, Fetish

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer.

  Kate Spade

  Overhead, Lighting, I Can

  "Kate Spade offers insights on her stylish home". Interview with Stacy Downs, www.kentucky.com. September 29, 2012.

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• Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Kindness, Blow, Mind

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1588, Library of Alexandria

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• Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Children, Thinking, Filled

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• Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!

  Gautama Buddha

  Compassion, Work Out, Independence

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• A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Writing, Night, Destiny

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• You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.

  Gautama Buddha

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Community

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• As I wrote 'The Christmas Lamp' I realized that tradition is priceless, whether you have a small family, a large family, or no family.
  Tradition doesn't have to be logical; it only has to emphasize the light of Christ and his everlasting love.

  Lori Copeland

  Christmas, Light, Priceless

  Lori Copeland (2009). “The Christmas Lamp: A Novella”, p.60, Zondervan

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• Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Kindness, Blow, Mind

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1588, Library of Alexandria

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• Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the compass; accept the first hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things look ghastly. To-morrow, in the natural sun, the skies will be bright; those who glared like devils in the forking flames, the morn will show in far other, at least gentler, relief; the glorious, golden, glad sun, the only true lamp—all others but liars!

  Moby

  Dream, Liars, Believe

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• During the four days of the storm, I became accustomed to the soft light of lamps and candles and grew to like it. When the power came on again, I discovered that I was actually disappointed. The electric lights seemed cold and impersonal; they revealed too much.

  Damon Knight

  Light, Storm, Four

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• Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Butterfly, Dark

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• Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have been if I had given him an engine worked by steam, with a methylated spirit lamp to heat the boiler; more enchanted, perhaps for the engine would have got broken, and, remaining always itself, would in any case have lost its charm, while the rudiments of algebra continued to grow and blossom in his mind with an unfailing luxuriance. Every day he made the discovery of something which seemed to him exquisitely beautiful; the new toy was inexhaustible in its potentialities.

  Archimedes

  Beautiful, Discovery, Broken

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• When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.

  Philip James Bailey

  Night, Study, Silver

  Philip James Bailey (1848). “Beauties of Festus”, p.112

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• Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.

  Charles Kingsley

  Hero, Race, Hands

  Charles Kingsley (1858). “Andromeda: And Other Poems”, p.122

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• The fly runs toward the fire or lamp, thinking that it is a flower, and gets burnt up. Even so, the passionate man runs towards a false beautiful form, thinking that he can obtain real happiness, and gets burnt up in the fire of lust.

  Bill Vaughan

  Beautiful, Running, Sex

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• My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love, And though the sager sort our deeds reprove, Let us not weigh them. Heaven's great lamps do dive Into their west, and straight again revive, But soon as once set is our little light, Then must we sleep one ever-during night. See Catullus 200:5.

  Thomas Campion

  Sleep, Night, Light

  'A Book of Airs' (1601) no. 1; translation of Catullus 'Carmina' no. 5.

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• The flame of the diya, or lamp, reminds us that light will ultimately triumph over darkness.

  Barack Obama

  Light, Flames, Darkness

  Barack Obama's Statement on the Observance of Diwali, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 1, 2013.

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• My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me that the lamp which I carry does not belong to me, and the song that I sing was not generated from within me.

  Khalil

  Song, Teaching, Soul

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• Rollerball is an incoherent mess, a jumble of footage in search of plot, meaning, rhythm and sense. There are bright colors and quick movement on the screen, which we can watch as a visual pattern that, in entertainment value, falls somewhere between a kaleidoscope and a lava lamp.

  Roger Ebert

  Fall, Color, Entertainment

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.241, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps, I have read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps, His Day is marching on.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Marching On, Dew, Evening

  Julia Ward Howe (1866). “Later Lyrics”, p.41

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• Be calm, be strong, be grateful, and become a lamp full of light, that the darkness of sorrows be annihilated, and that the sun of everlasting joy arise from the dawning-place of heart and soul, shining brightly.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Strong, Grateful, Heart

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• Never did form more fairy thread the dance Than she who scours the hills to find it flowers; Never did sweeter lips chained ears entrance Than hers that move, true to its striking hours; No hands so white e'er decked the warrior's lance, As those which tend its lamp as darkness lours; And never since dear Christ expired for man, Had holy shrine so fair a sacristan.

  Alfred Austin

  Flower, Moving, Warrior

  Alfred Austin (1873). “Madonna's child [a poem].”, p.4

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• A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He cannot touch bottom at all.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lying, Men, Two

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.429

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• He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human."

  Diogenes

  Daylight, Broads, Said

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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