Shining
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Emitting light, esp. in a continuous manner; radiant; as, shining lamps; also, bright by the reflection of light; as, shining armor.
Splendid; illustrious; brilliant; distinguished; conspicious; as, a shining example of charity.
Having the surface smooth and polished; -- said of leaves, the surfaces of shells, etc.
Emission or reflection of light.
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Shining Quotations
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy
Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
Taylor Swift
Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel
White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.
Carroll Quigley
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
Wilma Rudolph
You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
Ken Kesey
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
Horace
Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
Lord Chesterfield
Shining Translations
shining in German is scheinend, blanke, starhlend
shining in Italian is brillante, fulgente
shining in Latin is micans, candidus, lucidus
shining in Spanish is brillante, luminoso, esplendoso
shining in Swedish is lysande
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