Lit Quotes

• Curiouser and curiouser.

  Lewis Carroll

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 2 (1865)

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• We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.

  Robert H. Shaffer

  Teacher, Teaching, Views

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• Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.

  Seth Godin

  Magic, Littles, Way

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• Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark.

  Leonard Bishop

  Firefly, Dark, Perception

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• Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.

  Yunus Emre

  Speech, Beast, Burden

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• Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit.

  David Archuleta

  Inspiration, Boxes

  David Archuleta (2010). “Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance”, p.45, Penguin

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• Our journey on the path is personal and well lit with the Savior's love.

  Rosemary M. Wixom

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Journey

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• The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky.

  Heinrich Heine

  Ocean, Sea, Sky

  Heinrich Heine (1859). “The Poems of Heine, complete: Translated in the original Metres: With a Sketch of Heine's Life. By Edgar Alfred Bowring”, p.89

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• Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

  Sam Abell

  Inspirational, Photography, Photographer

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• As hope kindles hope, millions more will find it. By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well - a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its progress, and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Men, Fire

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2005

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• But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Night, Space

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.17, Vintage Canada

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• As one candle is lit from the flame of another, so is faith kindled by faith.

  Romano Guardini

  Flames, Candle

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• When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rooms, Happy Person, Persons

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• Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

  H. G. Wells

  Book, Men, Shining

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

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• Even a small match
  lit in a place of total
  darkness gives off a
  blinding light.

  Richard Stearns

  Light, Giving, Darkness

  Richard Stearns (2014). “Stearns 2 in 1: The Hole in Our Gospel and Unfinished”, p.54, Harper Collins

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• Night is a world lit by itself.

  Antonio Porchia

  Night, World

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• Why are some people born with a fire in the belly, while others need something to get their pilot light lit?

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Fire, Light, People

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• Cause I lit him on fire,” I shrugged and brushed dust from my pants.

  Amanda Hocking

  Fire, Dust, Pants

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• A waste land lit by holy candles.

  Sean O'Casey

  Land, History, Waste

  Sean O'Casey (1975). “The Letters of Sean O'Casey: 1942-54”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• Love is like an eternal flame, once it is lit, it will continue to burn for all time.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Kissing, Love Is, Flames

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• A thousand candles can be lit from one candle, however the life of the original candle is not shortened in the least.

  Dalai Lama

  Thousand, Originals, Candle

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• I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.

  Francisco Goya

  Light, Shadow, Form

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• A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Eye, Angel, Soul

  Nathaniel Parker WILLIS (1837). “Melanie and other poems. Edited by Barry Cornwall, i.e. B. W. Procter”, p.154

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• Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of the clich?d dark and stormy night, I found the magical inn, its windows golden lit, and Summer was due to start tomorrow. I can only work at one thing well. Deprive me of that, and my "back-up plan," even now, will be the empty, stormy, darkened heath -- where, incidentally, even unpublished, somehow I'll still be writing.

  Tanith Lee

  Summer, Writing, Dark

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• Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignation with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn lists of good intentions. One shuffles flashily but in vain through one's marked cards- the kindness done for the wrong reason, the apparent triumph which involved no real effort, the seemingly heroic act into which one had been shamed.

  Joan Didion

  Kindness, Real, Winning

  Joan Didion (1968). “Slouching towards Bethlehem”

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