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In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.
Whitney Houston

School, Bad, Long

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
Walter Bagehot

Best, History, Art

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
Milan Kundera

Time, Great, Human

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Arlo Guthrie

I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.
Martha Beck

Infinite, Shadows, Transport

Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.
Emir Kusturica

Time, End, Movie

The Supreme Court has a very light backlog. They leave a lot of splits among the circuits, a lot of uncertainty. And I think they ought to work a lot harder.
Arlen Specter

Work, Leave, Among

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.
Julien Green

Fear, Dark, Child

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.
Joseph Barbera

Long, Everything, Learned

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

God, Seeing, Worship

I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'
Elizabeth Gilbert

Life, Toward, Yellow

America is looking for answers. She's looking for a new direction; the world is looking for a light. That light can come from America's great North Star; it can come from Alaska.
Sarah Palin

Great, America, She

When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
Daisaku Ikeda

Hope, Forward, Moving

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.
Russell Baker

Heart, Enjoy, Heavy

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
May Sarton

Help, Nothing, Darkness

Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
William Law

Nature, Nothing, Hell

Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.
Arthur Eddington

Wise, Sun, Leave

The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through.
Theo Van Gogh

Through, Write, Message

I want to light the lights of patriotism.
Lech Walesa

Patriotism, Lights

The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.
Reba McEntire

Time, Positive, Anger

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
Augustine of Hippo

Spiritual, Virtue, Among

One of my favorite things is mayonnaise and I have to tell you that. I love mayonnaise, but I don't eat it any more. If I do I put light mayonnaise on it, which I know is still not good but it's a lot better than the other one and I don't eat it that much.
Mike Ditka

Love, Good, Put

I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks.
Audrey Tautou

Time, Hate, Down

A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
Jim DeMint

Free, Against, Islamic

Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever love myself.
Angie Stone

Love, God, Loves

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
John Milton

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
Hans Hofmann

Nature, Picture, Color

I sleep with a light on in the bathroom so I can see where I'm at, because I wake up and have no clue!
Carrie Underwood

Sleep, Wake, Bathroom

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
Corazon Aquino

Power, Freedom, True

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.
Jean Ingelow

Good, Waiting, Thoughts

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