What Light Quotes

A drainless shower Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power; 'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm.

No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.

If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.

The magic of the music seems to light the way.

I spent most of my time wrestling looking up at the lights.

But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.

Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.

What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?

When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements.

Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.

Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.

The sacred influence of light appears.

The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.

All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.

A light-heel'd mother makes a heavy-heel'd daughter.

Barack Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.

Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.

In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm light.

I'm a little kid at heart, so my eyes light up when everything is lit.

The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine.

Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright With joy the spirit moves and burns; So up to thee! O Fount of Light! Our light returns.

The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.

Love makes the air light.

The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our essential selves.

For a rub with sweet tang: mix just a little bit of light brown sugar to garlic pepper, black pepper, and onion powder.

On first listening, Joni Mitchell's 'Court And Spark,' the first truly great pop album of 1974, sounds surprisingly light; by the third or fourth listening, it reveals its underlying tensions.

Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason.

In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.

Science is wonderful at explaining what science is wonderful at explaining, but beyond that it tends to look for its car keys where the light is good.

I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - at the time I didnt even have a publisher, so my main worry was whether it was even going to see the light of day or not.

In the sea of words, the in print is foam, surf bubbles riding the top. And it's a dark sea, and deep, where divers need lights on their helmets and would perish at the lower depths.

I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs.

Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.

So you may look lightly upon a Scripture and see nothing; meditate often upon it, and there you shall see a light, like the light of the sun.

We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs forever, but in the august light of abiding memories.

God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.

The root of masculine is stronger, and of feminine weaker. The sun is a governing planet to certain planets, while the moon borrows her light from the sun, and is less or weaker.

I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.

Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.

In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.

I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light and funny any more.

You just have to learn certain technical things, like where the camera is, not to block people's light in your own, to hit your marks, and that you do it kind of piecemeal.

On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.

We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by.

simplicity is a thing beautiful in itself, like clear light.

What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.

I do a lot of dancing. I don't like to run much because I get shin splints. I love being outside so I do a lot of hiking. It's very good for toning. I also do lots of light weights.

With determination and purpose, I head into the light.

Your smile lights my way through life, and keeps me warm inside. It reminds me that people are good, especially when their snide.