Light Quotes - Page 14

• All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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• A background can be painted in the same range of values as the foreground by reversing the light effect. In the shadow plane, paint the lights cool and the shadows warm, and in the sunlight plane, paint the lights warm and shadows cool.

  Harvey Dunn

  Shadow, Paint, Range

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• The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Photography, Manipulation, Photographer

  László Moholy-Nagy, Andreas Haus (1980). “Moholy-Nagy, photographs and photograms”, Pantheon

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• Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

  Lady Randolph Churchill

  Funny, Friendship, Best Friend

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• The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Stars, Flower

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• A man’s mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Writing, Men, Mind

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• Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

  Alexander Pope

  Nature, Science, Night

  "Epitaph: Intended for Sir Isaac Newton" l. 1 (1730) See Squire 1

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• As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Strength, Confidence

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• I realized that a tree never says, "I have too many branches." It simply digs deeper roots, expands itself to catch more light, and extends itself in multiple directions so as not to be unevenly weighted.

  Brenda Strong

  Roots, Tree, Branches

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• You can curse the darkness or light a candle. The choice is yours.

  Patrick Kane

  Choices, Darkness, Curse

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• Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire.

  Bear Grylls

  Dream, Fire, Wish

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• Our community of rebels, of humble truth seekers, wants to turn our culture around. We don't despise our country. We don't desire failure. We desire light, a beacon to show the world that our wealth need not show the way to more rapid destruction, but can be leveraged to heal more acres, more backyards, more communities faster than any civilization on the right path has ever done it.

  Joel Salatin

  Country, Humble, Civilization

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colours. By experimenting with lighting, colours, textiles and furniture and utilizing the latest technologies, I try to show new ways to encourage people to use their phantasy and make their surroundings more exciting.

  Verner Panton

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Work

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• No matter how dark and gloomy it looks in your life right now, if you'll release the weight of those burdens, you will see the sun break forth.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• That is why he is a Warrior of the Light, because he has been through all this and yet has never lost hope of being better than he is.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

  "The Manual of the Warrior of Light". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1997.

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• Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Heart, People, Shadow

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.55, Grove Press

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• For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.

  David Hume

  Pain, Self, Hatred

  1739 A Treatise of Human Nature, bk.1, pt.4, section 6.

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• You don't take a photograph, you make it.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

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• Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

  Charlotte Whitton

  Inspirational, Hope, Nature

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• You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

  Kim Edwards

  Time, Father, Rain

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.297, Penguin

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• I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.

  Lydia M. Child

  Way, My Own

  Letter to Ellis Gray Loring, 1843.

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• Humility is the light of understanding.

  John Bunyan

  Motivational, Humility, Understanding

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• Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.

  Saint Augustine

  Stars, Moon, Thinking

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• Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

  William Shakespeare

  Temptation, Devil, Spirit

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.459

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