Light Quotes

I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.
Wesley Snipes

Life, Stress, Energy

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
Douglas MacArthur

God, Career, Him

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
Edward Steichen

Real, Realize, Knew

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
James Russell Lowell

Truth, Death, Night

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
James Russell Lowell

Reputation, Looks, Candle

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Strength, Character, Married

He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.
John Milton

May, Enjoy, Thoughts

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
Pope John XXIII

Beginning, Church, Splendid

I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.
Patrick Swayze

Life, Future, Long

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Vladimir Nabokov

Two, Sense, Between

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
Anne Bronte

Nature, Sunshine, Wind

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.
Woodrow Wilson

Experience, Human, Through

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
Robert Schumann

Men, Darkness, Artist

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.
Sophocles

Done, Injustice, Terrible

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
George Sand

Heart, Human, Artist

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
Earl Nightingale

Dark, Learn, Her

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.
Albert Pike

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
Bette Midler

Human, Try, Few

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
James Madison

Best, Mind, Liberty

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.
Rod Serling

Science, Between, Space

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
Le Corbusier

Men, Sleep, Place

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
George Santayana

Faith, Alone, Heart

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.
George Eastman

Love, Makes, Worth

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
Stendhal

Woman, Moment, Sweet

The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.
Pope Benedict XVI

Women, Men, Before

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.
Jose Marti

Men, Others, Stars

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Truth, After, Rarely

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
John Berger

Time, Strange, Makes

I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into light, and I looked up to them and I loved them, but I was like, 'Where are Middle Eastern women?'
Kim Kardashian

Women, Beautiful, Remember

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
Muhammad Iqbal

Life, Matter, Spirit

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