Light Quotes - Page 24

• This fire in me, it's not just the hunger of a woman for a man - it's the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life higher!

  Anzia Yezierska

  Passion, Men, Fire

  Anzia Yezierska (2014). “Hungry Hearts: Stories of the Jewish-American Immigrant Experience”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• I have suckled the wolf's lip of anger and I have used it for illumination, laughter, protection, fire in places where there was no light, no food, no sisters, no quarter.

  Audre Lorde

  Laughter, Anger, Fire

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• We have to recognise, that the gin-palace, like many other evils, although as poisonous, is still a natural outgrowth of our social conditions. The tap-room in many cases is the poor man's only parlour. Many a man takes to beer, not from the love of beer, but from a natural craving for the light, warmth, company, and comfort which is thrown in along with the beer, and which he cannot get excepting by buying beer. Reformers will never get rid of the drink shop until they can outbid it in the subsidiary attractions which it offers to its customers.

  William Booth

  Beer, Men, Evil

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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• True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice.

  Robert McAfee Brown

  Justice, Patriotism, Way

  Robert McAfee Brown (1984). “Unexpected News: Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes”, p.159, Westminster John Knox Press

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• How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light!

  Orville Dewey

  Heart, Dark, Simple

  Orville Dewey (1841). “Discourses on Human Life”, p.158

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• tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. It would be subversive of every human interest that the cry of one-half the human family be stifled. ... The world has had to limp along with the wobbling gait and one-sided hesitancy of a man with one eye. Suddenly the bandage is removed from the other eye and the whole body is filled with light. It sees a circle where before it saw a segment. The darkened eye restored, every member rejoices with it.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Women, Eye, Circles

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• When the first time of love is over, there comes a something better still. Then comes that other love; that faithful friendship which never changes, and which will accompany you with its calm light through the whole of life. It is only needful to place yourself so that if it may come, and then it comes of itself. And then everything turns and changes itself to the best.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Friendship, Love Is, Accompany You

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• A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Noses, Might, Return

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• It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food, medicine and light; its leaves, winter fodder for the goats and sheep; it is their shelter from the heat and its branches and roots supply them with firewood. The olive tree is the peasant's all-in-all.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Country, Winter, Sheep

  Fredrika Bremer (1863). “Greece and the Greeks: The Narrative of a Winter Residence and Summer Travel in Greece and Its Islands”, p.213

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• People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

  Irwin Shaw

  Dark, People, Candle

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• We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.

  Winifred Holtby

  Stars, Distance, Space

  Winifred Holtby (2011). “Mandoa, Mandoa!: A Comedy of Irrelevance”, p.193, Hachette UK

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• I find you in all small and lovely things; in the little fishes like flames in the green water, in the furred and stupid softness of bumble-bees fat as laughter, in all the chiming radiance of warmth and light and scent in the summer garden.

  Winifred Holtby

  Summer, Laughter, Stupid

  Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain (1960). “Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935”

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• You know, I can see two tiny pictures of myself And there's one in each of your eyes. And they're doin' everything I do. Every time I light a cigarette, they light up theirs. I take a drink and I look in and they're drinkin' too. It's drivin' me crazy. It's drivin' me nuts.

  Laurie Anderson

  Crazy, Eye, Nuts

  "Laurie Anderson". Book by RoseLee Goldberg and Laurie Anderson, 2000.

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• Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

  Principles, Belief, Conviction

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• Thoughts are like stars in the firmament; some are fixed, others like the wandering planets, others again are only like meteors. Understanding is like the Sun, which gives light to all the thoughts. Memory is like the Moon, it hath its new, its full and its wane.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Stars, Memories, Moon

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• Let brisker youths their active nerves prepare
  Fit their light silken wings and skim the buxom air.

  Richard Owen Cambridge

  Air, Wings, Nerves

  Richard Owen Cambridge (1751). “The Scribleriad: An Heroic Poem. In Six Books”

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• Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Fighting, Darkness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.160, New World Library

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• Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconsciously we judge others by the light that is within ourselves, condemning or approving them by our own conception of right and wrong, honor and dishonor! We show by our judgment just what the light within us is.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Judging, Mind, Honor

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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• Rediscover the Rosary in the light of scripture, in harmony with the Liturgy, and in the context of your daily lives.

  Pope John Paul II

  Rosary, Scripture, Daily Life

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• We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Invisibility, Life Is, Invisible

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• Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Night, Trying, Communism

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• Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Time, Rivers, Superficial

  Joseph Glanvill (1885). “Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science ; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing and Confident Opinion”

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• I might really have gone round the bend. I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them from the sky can't be all there but if so I feel mighty happy. If one is happy and cracked it's much better than being unhappy and sane.

  Bessie Head

  Mean, Sky, People

  Bessie Head, Randolph Vigne (1991). “A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979”, Heinemann

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• Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.

  Radclyffe Hall

  Men, Darkness, Salvation

  Radclyffe Hall (2005). “The Well of Loneliness”, p.214, Wordsworth Editions

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• Living in light of eternity changes your priorities.

  Rick Warren

  Priorities, Top Priorities, Eternity

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