Shining Quotes - Page 24

• In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.

  George R. R. Martin

  Beautiful, Song, Knights

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.967, Bantam

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• America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.

  Ronald Reagan

  Cities, America, Hills

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• If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to- because time passes. The pursuit of happiness is more elusive; it is life-long, and it is not goal-centred. What you are pursuing is meaning- a meaningful life... There are times when it will go so wrong that you will be barely alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Meaningful, Pursuit Of Happiness, Happy Times

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• Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on.

  Stephen King

  Shine On, Forever

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• The sun began to set behind Bethlehem and the beams were breaking through some white and gray clouds. There was a slight and beautiful chill from the autumn air. I gave thanks for that beautiful day and for the fact that the sun does not know Palestinian from Israeli, Christian from Muslim or Jew, and Asian from American or African, and I asked myself: If the sun shines on all of us as one, how much more does the sun's Creator see and love us all as one?

  Ted Dekker

  Beautiful, Christian, Autumn

  Ted Dekker, Carl Medearis (2010). “Tea with Hezbollah: Sitting at the Enemies Table Our Journey Through the Middle East”, p.198, Image

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• Am I going to have to carry you? If so, it would complete my badass knight-in-shining-armor act with you today.

  J. Lynn

  Badass, Knights, Armor

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• Still, the vivid green of the grass-where the grass is actually managing to assert itself through the dirt-seems out of place. This seems like a place where the sun should never shine: a place on the edge, at the limit, a place completely removed from time and happiness and life.

  Lauren Oliver

  Green, Vivid, Dirt

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• More often than not, we want him to have fairy wings and spread fairy dust and shine like a precious little star, dispensing nothing but good times on everyone, like some kind of hybrid of Tinker Bell and Aladdin’s Genie. But the God of the Bible, this God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, is a pillar of fire and a column of smoke.

  Matt Chandler

  Stars, Fire, Dust

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• I'm not getting it all sorted, she worried. I'm not getting it right. You are brilliant, the Voice reassured her. It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brilliant, nonetheless. How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness. Carry on imperfectly, shining Ista.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Lonely, Voice, Perfect

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• My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Dishonesty, Salvation

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• Krystal flung herself violently off the chair, away from her mother. She was surprised to feel warm liquid flowing down her cheeks, and thought confusedly of blood, but it was tears, only tears, clear and shining on her fingertips when she wiped them away.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mother, Blood, Tears

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• Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

  Aberjhani

  Christmas, Healing, Heart

  Luther E. Vann, Aberjhani (2008). “Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love”, p.44, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• The stars are far brighter Than gems without measure, The moon is far whiter Than silver in treasure; The fire is more shining On hearth in the gloaming Than gold won by mining, So why go a-roaming? O! Tra-la-la-lally Come back to the Valley.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Moon, Fire

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Kissing, Moon

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 1

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• That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets, and winds, and birds

  Orson Scott Card

  Lakes, Wind, Sky

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Ender's Game: Ender Series”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dark, Reflection, Night

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.558, Wordsworth Editions

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• I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Stars, Owl

  Mark Twain (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.8, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• You are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen walking this earth. You have no clue of how beautiful you are or how brightly you shine.

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Earth, Clue

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Bloodlines: The Golden Lily”, p.314, Penguin UK

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• The burden God places on each of us is to become who we are meant to be. We are most fully ourselves when Christ most fully lives in us and through us. The mother shines brightest with her child in her arms, the father when he forgives his wandering son, and the artist when he or she is drawing attention to grace, by showing the pinprick of light overcoming the darkness in the painting, or the story, or the song. The world knows darkness. Christ came into the world to show us light. I have seen it, have been blinded by it, invaded by it. I will tell its story.

  Andrew Peterson

  Mother, Song, Children

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• Why, Yrael?” it said, as the last of the dark gave way to silver, and the shining sphere of metal sank slowly to the ground. “Why?” “Life,” said Yrael, who was more Mogget than it ever knew. “Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.

  Garth Nix

  Dark, Moon, Light

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• If you are her man, she will talk to you until there just aren’t any more words left to say, encourage you when you’re at rock bottom and think there just isn’t any way out, hold you in her arms when you’re sick, and laugh with you when you’re up. And if you’re her man and that woman loves you—I mean really loves you?—she will shine you up when you’re dusty, encourage you when you’re down, defend you even when she’s not so sure you were right, and hang on your every word, even when you’re not saying anything worth listening to.

  Steve Harvey

  Love You, Mean, Men

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• My grandmother told me once that when you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well, but that's not the way things turn out in the end. Eventually, you pick yourself up and look out the window, and once you do you see everything that was there before the world ended is out there still. There are the same apple trees and the same songbirds, and over our heads, the very same sky that shines like heaven, so far above us we can never hope to reach such heights.

  Alice Hoffman

  Grandmother, Thinking, Sky

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• When you die, they can make you into diamonds now. It’s scientific. That’s how I want to be remembered. I want to shine.

  Neil Gaiman

  Want, Diamond, Remembered

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• Let's pretend for just one moment that could actually happen. You close your eyes and I'll close mine and let's dream the same dream across the Atlantic, lighting up the darkness between us. Can you see it, Stu? Can you see us up there, shining in all the black?

  Annabel Pitcher

  Dream, Eye, Darkness

  Annabel Pitcher (2012). “Ketchup Clouds”, p.139, Hachette UK

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• I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my country... You, who will see it, welcome it for me...don't forget those who fell during the nighttime.

  Jose Rizal

  Country, Light, Dawn

  Jose Rizal (2006). “Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)”, p.381, Penguin

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