Light Quotes - Page 38

• My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us.The glass says you are this and we are that and that is how it will always be.

  Katherine Applegate

  Wall, Glasses, Hands

  Katherine Applegate (2012). “The One and Only Ivan”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.

  Susan Howatch

  Believe, People, Christianity

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• People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.

  Nate Silver

  People, Information, Knows

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• Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.

  Q'orianka Kilcher

  Responsibility, Issues, Needs

  "Kilcher has rare maturity for a young actress" by G. Allen Johnson, www.sfgate.com. May 13, 2010.

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• Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is natures red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.

  Li Keqiang

  Environmental, Development, Warning

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• To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.

  Anthony de Mello

  Fighting, Hands, Evil

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• The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.

  Peter Higgs

  Glasses, Water, Looks

  "Peter Higgs' Big Day". Interview with Jessica Griggs, www.slate.com. July 29, 2012.

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• My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Mom, Husband, Father

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• I hear people everywhere saying that the trouble with our time is that we have no great leaders any more. If we look back we always had them. But to me it seems there is a very profound reason why there are no great leaders any more. It is because they are no longer needed. The message is clear. You no longer want to be led from the outside. Every man must be his own leader. He now knows enough not to follow other people. He must follow the light that's within himself, and through this light he will create a new community.

  Laurens van der Post

  Men, Profound, People

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• Do not allow darkness and gloom to enter into your hearts. I want to give you a rule by which you may know that the spirit which you have is the right spirit. The Spirit of God produces cheerfulness, joy, light and good feelings. Whenever you feel gloomy and despondent and are downcast, unless it be for your sins, you may know it is not the Spirit of God which you have. Fight against it and drive it out of your heart. The Spirit of God is a spirit of hope; it is not a spirit of gloom.

  George Q. Cannon

  Inspirational, God, Hope

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• ...evil is a force and, like the physical and chemical forces, we cannot annihilate it; we may only change its form. We light upon one evil and hit it with all the might of our civilization, but only succeed in scattering it into a dozen of other forms

  James Weldon Johnson

  Civilization, Evil, Succeed

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There was no holding on to any of it, and no slowing it down.

  Marisha Pessl

  Past, Color, Holding On

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• Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.

  Aleister Crowley

  World, Welcome, Should

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Magick in Theory and Practice”, p.70, Lulu Press, Inc

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• As slippery as smooth grapes, words exploding in the light like dormant seeds waiting in the vaults of vocabulary, alive again, and giving life: once again the heart distills them.

  Pablo Neruda

  Heart, Vocabulary, Giving

  Pablo Neruda, Margaret Sayers Peden (2000). “Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda”, p.199, Univ of California Press

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• We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!

  T. S. Eliot

  Invisible, Thee, Glorify

  T. S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.176, Faber & Faber

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• Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... its a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.

  Malaika Arora Khan

  Sweet, Morning, Years

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• To me, the most worrisome part of traveling comes before any of the traveling actually occurs: the suitcase-packing process. It's a challenging and anxiety-filled process - I am caught between wanting my suitcase to be light and worrying I am going to need every single item in my bedroom.

  Laura Marano

  Worry, Anxiety, Challenges

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Reality, Fiction, Shapes

  "Ruth Ozeki beats Thomas Pynchon to top Kitschie award" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2014.

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• A man notices a womans figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.

  Hallie Ephron

  Dark, Men, Eight

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• Do not despair! Work steadily. Sincerity and love will conquer hate. How many seemingly impossible events are coming to pass in these days! Set your faces steadily towards the Light of the World. Show love to all... Take courage! God never forsakes His children who strive and work and pray! Let your hearts be filled with the strenuous desire that tranquillity and harmony may encircle all this warring world. So will success crown your efforts, and with the universal brotherhood will come the Kingdom of God in peace and goodwill.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Children, Hate, Heart

  "Paris Talks". Book by Abdu'l-Bahá ("The Pitiful Causes of War, and the Duty of Everyone to Strive for Peace," October 21, 1911), reference.bahai.org. 1912.

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• Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Wind, Weather, Rays

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• We're all moons. Sometimes our dark sides overshadow our light.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Dark, Moon, Sides

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• This was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and Dark Ones. When for you, people weren't even a flock of sheep, but just a handful of spiders in a glass jar. When you stopped believing in the future, and all you wanted to do was preserve the status quo. For yourself. For those few individuals who were still dear to you.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Believe, Dark, Differences

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2009). “The Twilight Watch: (Night Watch 3)”, p.344, Random House

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• Because love stands above Darkness and Light.Because love is not sex or a shared faith, or "the joint maintenance of a household and the upbringing of children."Because love is also Power.And Light and Darkness, people and Others, morality and law, the Ten Commandments and the Great Treaty have damn all to do with it.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Sex, Children, Love Is

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax

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• My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love.

  Anthony Browne

  Mother, Teacher, Brother

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