Green Lights Quotes

• So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Tattoo, Time

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925).

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• I give myself the green light to move forward, and to joyously embrace the new.

  Louise Hay

  Moving, Light, Giving

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Jul 05, 2015

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• Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.

  Tyler Perry

  Dope, Light, Waiting

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• His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Docks, Failing

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)

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• I send you Love and all Green Lights

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspiration, Light, Green

  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2016). “10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace”, p.17, Hay House, Inc

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• Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Running, Arms, Tomorrow

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925).

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• We don't have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.

  Tyler Perry

  Light, People, Waiting

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• I know when to go and when to stop. I'm the red, the yellow, and the green light. That's me in a nutshell.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Light, Yellow, Green

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• Red lights, green lights, stop and go jive. Headlines, deadlines, jamming your mind.

  Billy Squier

  Work, Light, Mind

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• Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.

  Taylor Swift

  Light, Green, Traffic

  "Taylor Swift Single Forever? Singer Says She Might Never Get Married". Wonderland magazine Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 08, 2013.

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• I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.

  Camryn Manheim

  Light, Years, Waiting

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• A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.

  Peter Bart

  Light, Decision, Green

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• At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply.

  Wallace Stevens

  Light, Sight, Bird

  Wallace Stevens, John N. Serio, Robert Gantt Steele (2004). “Wallace Stevens”, p.16, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

  1965 Quoted in CBS News tribute,14 Jan.

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• Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Green Plants, Light, Mind Blowing

  Twitter post from Mar 17, 2012

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• You can't control a superstar that has an ultimate green light. That's impossible.

  Mario Chalmers

  Light, Green, Superstar

  Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. July 11, 2012.

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• City lights shine bright on my complexion,
  Self-reflection...red hairs flashing at the intersection.
  Life is a green light, one star, no script,
  Supporting actors...fresh peaches, no pit.

  Action Bronson

  Stars, Rap, Reflection

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• You make a right on L, make a left on O, come to a green light and that's when you can go. You keep straight on V, until you come to E, that's when you see a big sign that say's welcome to Love Street.

  R. Kelly

  Light, Poetry, Green

  Song: Love Street, Album: Happy People / U Saved Me

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• Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Running, Morning, Years

  Great Gatsby (1925) ch. 9

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• A basic cause of murmuring is that too many of us seem to expect that life will flow ever smoothly, featuring an unbroken chain of green lights with empty parking places just in front of our destinations!.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Light, Unbroken, Green

  Neal A. Maxwell (1999). “One More Strain of Praise”, Deseret Book Company

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• The way two people can end up in the same place, find each other in a crowd, and change their lives and the lives of the people around them forever... It makes you believe in fate. And fate gives love some authority. Like it's been stamped with approval from above, if you believe in above. A godly green light. Some destined significance.

  Deb Caletti

  Believe, Fate, Godly

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• I'm ready to run a studio. I'm ready to green light movies, and be in it to win it, you know? It's close. It'll happen.

  Ice Cube

  Running, Winning, Light

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Stars, Moon, Light

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1991). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• This is the one thing I hope: that she never stopped. I hope when her body couldn't run any farther she left it behind like everything else that tried to hold her down, she floored the pedal and she went like wildfire, streamed down night freeways with both hands off the wheel and her head back screaming to the sky like a lynx, white lines and green lights whipping away into the dark, her tires inches off the ground and freedom crashing up her spine.

  Tana French

  Running, Dark, Night

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• I`m quite confident that when you spew out hateful [anti-islam]rhetoric, you green-light people who are - who have violent and who are dangerous, and that`s why we have to watch what we say. Words do matter.

  Steve King

  Light, People, Islam

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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