Light Quotes - Page 26

• Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mean, Self, Order

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• We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes, we run after that whiteness and deny our darkness, which has been made into the symbol of all that is evil and inferior.

  Paule Marshall

  Running, White Privilege, Racism

  Paule Marshall (1983). “Reena and Other Stories”, p.79, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Do not try to be what you are not, be what you are. The Universe has a built in truth recognizer, what ever is false about you, it will expose to light, either through you or others, pay attention.

  Marcus Thomas

  Truth, Trying, Attention

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• In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.

  Wang Jianlin

  Yellow, Goal, Target

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• In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Summer, Grief, Unique

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• Local esteem is far more conducive to happiness than general reputation. The latter may be compared to the fixed stars which glimmer so remotely as to afford little light and no warmth. The former is like the sun, each day shedding his prolific and cheering beams.

  William Benton Clulow

  Stars, Cheer, Littles

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.415

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• The very nature of economics is rooted in nationalism. ... It [was] developed ... in the hope of throwing light upon questions of policy. But policy means nothing unless there is an authority to carry it out, and authorities are national.

  Joan Robinson

  Mean, Economics, Authority

  Joan Robinson (1962). “Economic philosophy”, p.124, Transaction Publishers

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• you could see the roads crisscrossing over the fields. When cars went by, far away, the beams were so bright they seemed to be ropes of light pulling the cars behind.

  Cynthia Kadohata

  Car, Rope, Fields

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• Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to.

  Alexis De Veaux

  Music, Air, Waiting

  Alexis De Veaux (1980). “Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Hope lights up our darkness.

  Celia Fremlin

  Hope, Darkness, Light Up

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• We who are crushed to earth with heavy chains, who travel a weary, rugged, thorny road, groping through midnight darkness on earth, earn our right to enjoy the sunshine in the great hereafter. At the grave, at least, we should be permitted to lay our burdens down, that a new world, a world of brightness, may open to us. The light that is denied us here should grow into a flood of effulgence beyond the dark, mysterious shadows of death.

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Dark, Sunshine, Shadow Of Death

  Elizabeth Keckley (1868). “Behind the scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White house”, p.24

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• Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Distance, Purple, Age

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Moving, Race, Heaven

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• if there ever was a time for sentimentality and traditional merrymaking, one that has transcended religious orientation, Christmas must be that time. The effect seems salutary: even people who ordinarily are as colorful and gay as groundworms, who would dare not consider a flamboyant gesture, hang long strings of brightly colored lights around their houses, trim Christmas trees, and talk to strangers.

  Anna Thomas

  Christmas, Religious, Gay

  Anna Thomas (1972). “The Vegetarian Epicure”, Vintage

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• abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.

  Agnes Repplier

  Travel, Landscape, Jars

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• service is the joy-giving factor in daily life. It is as spontaneous as light, as subtle as electricity, as exhilarating as sunshine. It exists primarily as a spiritual attitude. It lies in the constant recognition of the brotherhood of humanity toward each and all with whom we come in contact.

  Lilian Whiting

  Spiritual, Attitude, Lying

  Lilian Whiting (1896). “The World Beautiful”

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• Polar fleece is a plush, spongy, totally artificial material that weighs nothing and conveys no quality of warmth or coolness; in fact, you can wear it in the most bitter weather or in the hottest heat. Polar fleece looks neither flimsy and light nor hearty and warm. It has no historical, cultural, or physical association with a place, a season, a society, or any living thing. It is the first existential fabric - eminentaly useful, meaningless, dissociated and weird.

  Mary Ruefle

  Weather, Historical, Quality

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.60, Wave Books

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• Dawn crept over the Downs like a sinister white animal, followed by the snarling cries of a wind eating its way between the black boughs of the thorns. The wind was the furious voice of this sluggish animal light that was baring the dormers and mullions and scullions of Cold Comfort Farm.

  Stella Gibbons

  Animal, Wind, Voice

  Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I remember having a friend overnight, and lots of giggling after the lights were out. And seemingly long silences followed by “Are you asleep yet?” and, sometimes, some pretty serious discussions about God and Life.

  Joe Brainard

  Long, Silence, God And Life

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• A Child of Happiness always seems like an old soul living in a new body, and her face is very serious until she smiles, and then the sun lights up the world. ... Children of Happiness always look not quite the same as other children. They have strong, straight legs and walk with purpose. They laugh as do all children, and they play as do all children, they talk child talk as do all children, but they are different, they are blessed, they are special, they are sacred.

  Anne Cameron

  Strong, Children, Blessed

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• All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, is inexplicable until we refer to the paternity of God. It hangs a huge blot in the universe until the orb of divine love rises behind it. In that apposition we detect its meaning. It appears to us but a finite shadow as it passes across the disk of infinite light.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Evil, Shadow, Orbs

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• I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing, nourishing magician's trick, that act of creation is its own light.

  Janette Turner Hospital

  Writing, Dark, Found You

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• Debt, weve learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains - pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies - but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage.

  Andrew Ross Sorkin

  Fire, Agency, Bankers

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• I wonder, now, about interrogation chambers: why do they think bright light brings the truth out of people? They should try the seduction of shadows, where you cannot watch your words hit their target.

  Anna Funder

  Thinking, People, Shadow

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• Just as a river by night shines with the reflected light of the moon, so too do you shine with the light of your family, your people, and your God. So you are never far from home, never alone, wherever you go.

  Karen Cushman

  Home, Moon, Night

  Karen Cushman (2014). “Catherine, Called Birdy”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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