Shining Quotes - Page 12

• There is no moral equivalent between that butcher and thug and KGB colonel Vladimir Putin and the United States of America, the country that Ronald Reagan used to call a shining city on a hill.

  John McCain

  Country, Thug, Cities

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It was like when we went to Mexico City [Olympics in 1968] it was sun and shining and bright. When we came home it was chaotic and storms everywhere. I think the most devastating thing was to make the adjustment as to why so many individuals that you grew up with in the sport thought it necessary to turn their backs and walk away from you.

  John Carlos

  Sports, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We've both with Justine Beck done other things - and do other things - outside of Glassjaw. But Glassjaw's the most shining professional thing I've been part of. And the fact it's happening on the scale is both an honor and it's funny. Its hysterical. It's a fun ride. The whole world's different.

  Daryl Palumbo

  Fun, Honor, Different

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• The castled crag of Drachenfels, Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine.

  Lord Byron

  Wall, Wine, Cities

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.99, Cambridge University Press

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• The tulip's petals shine in dew, All beautiful, but none alike.

  James Montgomery

  Beautiful, Dew, Petals

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.358

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• As the light of morning strikes now one peak and then another, some being illuminated while others are in the shadow, so the light of the essential moral principle shines now upon one duty and then upon another, while others are in the shadow.

  Felix Adler

  Morning, Light, Shadow

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• You shine for who you are ... because no one can steal your light.

  Martha Beck

  Motivational, Light, Stealing

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• The flash of rain, the shining rainbow riding completely around the plane, the lift over mountain ridges, the steady, pure air at dawn take-offs. ... It was so alive and rich a life that any other conceivable choice seemed dull, prosaic, and humdrum.

  Dean Smith

  Rain, Air, Choices

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• It is the spectators, the people who are outside, looking at the tragedy, from whose ranks the skeptics come; it is not those who are actually in the arena and who know suffering from the inside. Indeed, the fact is that it is the world's greatest sufferers who have produced the most shining examples of unconquerable faith.

  James Stewart

  Faith, Religious, People

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• I think if people genuinely want to help ... that'll shine through, no matter what color or what race. We cannot see race before compassion.

  Janelle Monae

  Thinking, Compassion, Race

  "Janelle Monae: 'Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon'" by Brittany Vickers, www.cnn.com. October 22, 2015.

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• We ought to celebrate the positive glorious gifts of God, but the worth of God shines in a powerful way to the world when in the midst of suffering we still don't curse God but say "The Lord gave and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord."

  John Piper

  Powerful, Blessed, Names

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• For the greater a man's works for the future, the less the present can comprehend them; the harder his fight, and the rarer success. If, however, once in centuries success does come to a man, perhaps in his latter days a faint beam of his coming glory may shine upon him. To be sure, these great men are only the Marathon runners of history; the laurel wreath of the present touches only the brow of the dying hero.

  Adolf Hitler

  Hero, Fighting, Men

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• The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond.

  Lester Bangs

  Culture, Pieces, Trash

  Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.460, Anchor

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• It isn't useful to curse the darkness; instead light your candle and let your light shine.

  Hafsat Abiola

  Light, Darkness, Curse

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• As an artist, I am interested in telling stories that haven't been told before, stories that are going to affect people, and also stories that shine light on areas of history that haven't had light shined on them before.

  Naomie Harris

  Artist, Light, People

  Interview with Jeffrey Wright, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 23, 2013.

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• During terms, Professor Marsden lives in Cambridge with his wife, chess player
  extraordinaire and distinguished physician and surgeon Bryony Asquith Marsden. His
  favorite time of day is half past six in the evening, when he meets Mrs. Marsden's train at the
  station, as the latter returns from her day in London. On Sunday afternoons, rain or shine,
  Professor and Mrs. Marsden take a walk along The Backs, and treasure growing old
  together.

  Sherry Thomas

  Rain, Sunday, Player

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• A lamp kept on mound illumines the area; if kept in a pit, it is as if it were not. A virtue that is practised is a lamp that shines for all; good thoughts and good deeds have a way of influencing others. The gems of wisdom, the light of intuitive experience should not be kept away from fellow - men. They have to be shared, even at the cost od one's life. That was the lesson Jesus taught and symbolised.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Jesus, Men, Light

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• Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Love Is, Example

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.158, New World Library

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• You are a child of God, small games do not work in this world. For those around us to feel peace, it is not example to make ourselves small. We were born to express the glory of God that lives in us. It is not in some of us, it is in all of us. While we allow our light to shine, we unconsciously give permission for others to do the same. When we liberate ourselves from our own fears, simply our presence may liberate others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Games, Light

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• The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.

  Edgar Degas

  Pimp, Painting, Expenses

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• But sometimes you just have to be your own eyes. You have to see yourself shining and stop waiting for other eyes to see you.

  Martine Murray

  Eye, Waiting, Sometimes

  Martine Murray (2003). “How to make a bird”, p.16, Allen & Unwin

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• For many years I wrote nothing but "I will not sleep with Steve Almond" over and over again, page after page à la Jack Torrance in The Shining. Finally, hundreds of psychotherapy sessions and an intense shaman-guided DMT sweat lodge experience led to a breakthrough, and I was able to write about other people I would not sleep with, and also about people I would.

  Alissa Nutting

  Writing, Sleep, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• This moment, this being, is the thing. My life is all life in little. The moon, the planets, pass around my heart. The sun, now hidden by the round bulk of this earth, shines into me, and in me as well. The gods and the angels both good and bad are like the hairs of my own head, seemingly numberless, and growing from within. I people the cosmos from myself, it seems, yet what am I? A puff of dust, or a brief coughing spell, with emptiness and silence to follow.

  Alexander Eliot

  Angel, Heart, Moon

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• No matter what you’re feeling, the only way to get a difficult feeling to go away is simply to love yourself for it. If you think you’re stupid, then love yourself for feeling that way. It’s a paradox, but it works. To heal, you must be the first one to shine the light of compassion on any areas within you that you feel are unacceptable.

  Christiane Northrup

  Stupid, Love Yourself, Thinking

  Christiane Northrup (2001). “The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing During the Change”, Bantam

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• With a strong testimony of the Savior and His restored gospel, you have limitless opportunities to shine.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Strong, Opportunity, Limitless

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