Quotes and Sayings About Light
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We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.
-- A. D. Gordon -
You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you feel a surge of cosmic exaltation, like the clear light of the heavens... . And you, too, seem to be taking root in the soil which you are digging, to be nourished by the rays of the sun, to share life with the tiniest blade of grass, with each flower; living in nature's depths, you seem then to rise and grow into the vast expanse of the universe.
-- A. D. Gordon -
The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.
-- A. D. Gordon -
The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.
-- A. E. Housman -
In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.
-- A. J. Liebling -
My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.
-- A. N. Wilson -
Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!
-- A. P. Herbert -
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
-- Aaron Burr -
Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.
-- Aaron Cohen -
Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
-- Aaron Levie -
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
-- Aaron Rose -
We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. We just need to keep battling. We're a team that has stuck together through the good times and the bad times. Our reward is near.
-- Aaron Rowand -
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.
-- Aaron Swartz -
Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.
-- Aaron Swartz -
I am in awe of the things you've been put through and the fact you can still light up a room when you walk in. When I look at you I see life. I see joy. I see my future.
-- Abbi Glines -
Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.
-- Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad -
With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
-- Aberjhani -
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
-- Aberjhani -
The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook -
When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook -
Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions — light and darkness mixed.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook -
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.
-- Abraham Kuyper -
The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
-- Ad Reinhardt
