Light Quotes - Page 37

• I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

  Federico Fellini

  Darkness, Cinema, Disappear

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• I sing, not to hear the echo repeat, a shade fainter, my song! I think of light and not of glory! Singing is my fashion of waging war and bearing witness. And if my song is the proudest of songs, it is that I sing clearly to make the day rise clear!

  Edmond Rostand

  Fashion, Song, War

  EDMOND ROSTAND (1910). “CHANTECLER PLAY IN FOUR ACTS”

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• And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes its true shape. I fight to go back to that blissful ignorance, but it is too late. The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.

  Libba Bray

  Pain, Believe, Ignorance

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• I think my life in general, like that of any human being, has highs and lows, has moments of great light and moments of great darkness.

  Thalia

  Thinking, Darkness, Moments

  "Thalia Details Private Moments in Her New Book". Interview with Sigal Ratner-Arias, newsok.com. October 31, 2011.

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• Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Sometimes, Corruption, Shedding Light

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• Don't google your name. Ever.
  Don't “search” for yourself
  on anything that glows in the dark.
  Don't let your beauty
  be something anyone can turn off.
  Don't edit your ugly out of your bio.
  Let your light come from the fire.
  Let your pain be the spark,
  but not the timber.
  Remember, you didn't come here
  to write your heart out.
  You came to write it in.

  Andrea Gibson

  Pain, Writing, Heart

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• Go forward with new zeal and determination, and through your example shine the light of the gospel in this troubled world.

  L. Tom Perry

  Determination, Shining, Example

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• London is like no other city I know in its ability to become beautiful. You can suddenly turn a corner and there are odd moments - of light, of weather.

  Graham Swift

  Beautiful, Cities, Weather

  "Voice from the street" by Sophie Harrison, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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• The most common mistakes women make when applying makeup are not applying it in the proper light and not using their hands as blending tools.

  Bobbi Brown

  Mistake, Makeup, Hands

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• You know, we have little bits of understanding, glimpses, a little bit of light here and there, but there's a tremendous amount of darkness, which is a challenge. I think life would be pretty boring if we understood everything. It's better if we don't understand anything and know that we don't, that's the important part.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Challenges, Darkness

  Interview in Cardiff, Wales, UK, March 11, 2011.

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• Ours is the responsibility to keep our light bright for others to see and follow.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Responsibility

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• Our first-party devices will light up digital work and life. Surface Pro 3 is a great example -- it is the world's best productivity tablet. In addition, we will build first-party hardware to stimulate more demand for the entire Windows ecosystem. That means at times we'll develop new categories like we did with Surface. It also means we will responsibly make the market for Windows Phone, which is our goal with the Nokia devices and services acquisition.

  Satya Nadella

  Party, Mean, Phones

  "Microsoft's CEO Sent Out A Giant Manifesto To Employees About The Future Of The Company" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. July 10, 2014.

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• Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Book, Fire, Filled In

  Meg Wolitzer (2014). “Belzhar”, p.141, Penguin

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• People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which every­thing-our discourses, our customs, our institutions, our regulations, our knowledges-was busy producing in the light of day and broadcasting to noisy accompaniment.

  Michel Foucault

  People, Regulation, Slumber

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.158, Vintage

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• The rules for reading yourself to sleep are easier to follow than are the rules for staying awake while reading. Get into bed in a comfortable position, make sure the light is inadequate enough to cause slight eyestrain, choose a book that is either terribly difficult or terribly boring-in any event, one that you do not really care whether you read or not-and you will be asleep in a few minutes. Those who are experts in relaxing with a book do not have to wait for nightfall. A comfortable chair in the library will do any time

  Mortimer Adler

  Book, Reading, Sleep

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• The story of Mirror Mirror is in many ways a story about evolution. Its about the evolution of a child into an adult. Its about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. Its about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.

  Gregory Maguire

  Children, Dwarves, Mirrors

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• This work of connecting our light to the world does not need to be done through a mass movement, or by millions of people. . . .The real work is always done by a small number of individuals. What matters is the level of participation: whether we dare to make a real commitment to the work of the soul.

  Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

  Real, Commitment, Numbers

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• There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.

  Emile Durkheim

  Sadness, Facts, Opinion

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light. To account for anything by supernatural agencies is, in fact to say that we do not know. Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Agency, Waiting, Facts

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.322, Library of Alexandria

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• But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Night, Dust, Soul

  Taylor Caldwell (2017). “Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• Stars are holes in the sky from which the light of the infinite shines.

  Confucius

  Stars, Sky, Shining

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• Always look forward. Follow the path of light

  Mikage

  Looks, Path

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• Photography is painting with light

  Miroslav Tichy

  Photography, Painting

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• I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Years, Age, Principles

  Brownlee Jean Kirkpatrick, Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan (1989). “Katherine Mansfield: selected letters”, Oxford University Press, USA

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