Light Quotes

Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.

I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.

The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.

I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on the sea and I grew up sailing - I love sailing - and the presence of the sea gives the air and the light a very special quality that I absolutely adore.

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.

Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.

Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it.

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions.

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

We made it known that we were trying to show the reality of France. People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness.

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.