Quotes and Sayings About Shining
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
-- A. E. HousmanSource : A Shropshire Lad no. 40, l. 5 (1896)
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Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.
-- Aaron HillSource : Aaron Hill, James Cawthorn, Michael Bruce (1822). “The Poems of Hill, Cawthorn, and Bruce”, p.43
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I think that everyone's life is controlled by a series of events. They choose what they want and if it is in their control they can reach it. Sometimes luck shines on them and sometimes it doesn't. I also think accidents happen and we are placed in situations where we have to do things for those we love that we don't want to do.
-- Abbi Glines -
If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.
-- Abdul Kalam -
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Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.
-- Abraham ColesSource : Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”
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When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook -
Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!
-- Abu Yahya al-Libi -
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I would that with sleepy, soft embraces The sea would fold mewould find me rest In luminous shades of her secret places, In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover My hidden couchnor the heaven above her As a strong love shielding a weary lover, I would have her shield me with shining breast.
-- Adam Lindsay GordonSource : The Swimmer', stanza 5, collected in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870).
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So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.
-- Adam Schiff -
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns -
Money glitters, beauty sparkles, and intelligence shines.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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if you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.
-- Adolf Hitler -
A victory at Kursk would shine like a beacon to the world!
-- Adolf Hitler -
It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice is so fleeting but it shines with significance. When each moment, each perception is brought out with care, unfolded like a precious gem from its layers of the softest tissue paper and laid in front of the beloved — turned this way and that, examined, considered.
-- Ahdaf SoueifSource : Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “The Map of Love”, p.95, Bloomsbury Publishing
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The more my dream are fulfilled the quicklier they become realities losing their shine.
-- Ai Yazawa -
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I am a Bible Christian and if an archangel with a wingspread as broad as a constellation shining like the sun were to come and offer me some new truth, I'd ask him for a reference. If he could not show me where it is found in the Bible, I would bow him out and say, I'm awfully sorry, you don't bring any references with you
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
-- Al Sharpton -
Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.
-- Alain de Lille -
Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.
-- Alain de Lille -
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It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.
-- Alain-Rene LesageSource : Alain-Rene Lesage (2011). “The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane”, p.263, The Floating Press
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On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).
-- Alain-Rene Lesage -
Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.
-- Alan Jay LernerSource : "Camelot" (song) (1960)
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When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.
-- Alber Elbaz -
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I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.
-- Albert Camus -
For me, there has never been one definition of beauty. I think we all have something to offer and when beauty shines from within, there can be no denying it
-- Alek Wek -
We must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives.
-- Alexander MacLaren -
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
-- Alexander Pope