Light Quotes

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

But, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein's willingness to allow the weapons inspectors to go in.

I take any opportunity I can to raise our country's flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there.

And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992.

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light.

In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.

So, instead, I try to put in light and hope for the best.

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

The next day I was put on paid leave from my new job at Louisiana State University. This is very painful to me, though once again I understand the circumstances in which my employers find themselves in light of these actions taken against me.

I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.

In the beginning there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing but everybody could see it.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.