Sunshine Quotes - Page 17

• Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

  Madame de Stael

  Genius, Perfume

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

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• Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Life, Happiness, Dark

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• It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership (liberty) than it is to attain it. Success is a ruthless competitor for it flatters and nourishes our weaknesses and lulls us into complacency. We bask in the sunshine of accomplishment and lose the spirit of humility which helps us visualize all the factors which have contributed to our success. We are apt to forget that we are only one of a team, that in unity there is strength and that we are strong only as long as each unit in our organization functions with precision.

  Samuel J. Tilden

  Leadership, Strong, Team

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• In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the frost and shadow of the grave. He feels no prophecy in the thrill of the human heart-in the incompleteness of nature. He believes merely in things tangible, and sees only in the daytime. He will not confess the authenticity of that paler light of faith which was meant to shine when the sunshine of reason falls short, and the firmament of mystery is over our heads.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Faith, Fall, Believe

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• There is no global warming problem, there isn't going to be a global warming problem. Sit back and enjoy the sunshine.

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Global Warming, Problem, Enjoy

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• How I want to see the mountains, rivers, sunshine, and ruined fortresses! Let the wind course over us until we become beautiful

  Mian Mian

  Beautiful, Wind, Rivers

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• The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Community, Soul, Brotherhood

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• I was born to catch dragons in their dens
  And pick flowers
  To tell tales and laugh away the morning
  To drift and dream like a lazy stream
  And walk barefoot across sunshine days.

  James Kavanaugh

  Dream, Morning, Flower

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• I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls; the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Dream, Believe, Men

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2010). “Darkwater: The Givens Collection”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past.

  Albert Theodore Powers

  Baseball, Father, Son

  Albert Theodore Powers (2003). “The Business of Baseball”, p.8, McFarland

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• Being unhappy means... Even if you want to love, because of a scar, you can't. Even though you don't want to be alone, because of that scar, you can't help but be alone. Even in bright sunshine, alone, you feel like you are lost in dark darkness.

  Min Sook Lee

  Drama, Mean, Dark

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• Within a few decades...the United States might get 30% of its electricity from sunshine.

  Christopher Flavin

  Wind, Energy, United States

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• Interlude with sunshine. Hello monday mein lazy freund.

  Allison Mackie

  Monday, Lazy, Hello

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• If I go a little over the top sometimes, don't worry; That's where all the sunshine is.

  Michael Treanor

  Inspirational, Life, Worry

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• He [The Improved Man] will enjoy not only the sunshine of life, but will bear with fortitude the darkest days. He will have no fear of death. About the grave, there will be no terrors, and his life will end as serenely as the sun rises.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Death, Men, Bears

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4287, Library of Alexandria

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• We all know that men in moderate circumstances can have just as comfortable houses as the richest, just as comfortable clothing, just as good food. They can see just as fine paintings, just as marvelous statues, and they can hear just as good music. They can attend the same theaters and the same operas. They can enjoy the same sunshine, and above all, can love and be loved just as well as kings and millionaires.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Money, Kings, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1902). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Miscellany”

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• Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings are translated into music. Music is the sunshine - the climate - of the soul, and it floods the heart with a perfect June.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Art, June, Perfect

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1952). “Life and Letters”

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• The constantly recurring question must be: What shall we unite with and from what shall we separate? The question of coexistence does not enter here, but the question of union and fellowship does. The wheat grows in the same field as the tares, but shall the two cross-pollinate? The sheep graze near the goats, but shall they seek to interbreed? The unjust and the just enjoy the same rain and sunshine, but shall they forget their deep moral differences and intermarry? ... The Spirit-illuminated church will have none of this

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Rain, Sheep, Two

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• Ten years have passed since a perfect blue sky morning turned into the blackest of nights. Since then we've lived in sunshine and in shadow, and although we can never unsee what happened here, we can also see that children who lost their parents have grown into young adults, grandchildren have been born and good works and public service have taken root to honor those we loved and lost.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Morning, Children, Taken

  "Obama: Decade Since 9/11 a Story of American Resilience". www.foxnews.com. September 11, 2011.

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• The individual who cultivates grievances, and who is perpetually exacting explanations of his assumed wrongs, can only be ignored, and left to the education of time and of development.... One does not argue or contend with the foul miasma that settles over stagnant water; one leaves it and climbs to a higher region, where the air is pure and the sunshine fair.

  Lilian Whiting

  Education, Time, Air

  Lilian Whiting (1896). “The World Beautiful”

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• Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

  Jonathan Haidt

  People, Water, Plant

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• I don't believe there's any cloud that hangs over me. I think there's nothing but sunshine hanging over me.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Believe, Thinking, Clouds

  "Roundtable: Maintaining Diversity Amid Job Cuts". Interview with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. December 10, 2008.

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• Stories come from violence, they come from sex. They come from death. They come from the dark places that everyone has to go to, kind of wants to, or doesn't, but needs to deal with. If you raise a kid to think everything is sunshine and flowers, they're going to get into the real world and die. That's the reason fairy tales are so creepy, because we need to encapsulate these things, to inoculate ourselves against them, so that when we're confronted by the genuine horror that is day-to-day life we don't go insane.

  Joss Whedon

  Sex, Real, Flower

  "Joss Whedon: Conversations". Book by Cynthia Burkhead, March 29, 2011.

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• Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix & a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and fast cars where almost everybody seems vaguely happy, except those who know in their hearts what is missing... And being driven slowly and quietly into the kind of terminal craziness that comes with finally understanding that the one thing you want is not there. Missing. Back-ordered. No tengo. Vaya con dios. Grow up! Small is better. Take what you can get.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Growing Up, Heart, Phoenix

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• A compliment is verbal sunshine.

  Robert Orben

  Compliment

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