Short quotations about, light - Page 2

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Weather forcast for tonight: dark. …

15 Feb , 2011  

Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning. Great short quote and quotation by: George Carlin , US comedian and actor (1937 – )

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What torture, this life in society!…

15 Feb , 2011  

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket. Great short quote and quotation by: Karl Kraus , Austrian author and journalist (1874 – 1936)

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When you close your doors, and make…

15 Feb , 2011  

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing? Great short quote and quotation by: Epictetus, Discourses , Roman (Greek-born) […]

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Epictetus

When you close your doors, and make…

15 Feb , 2011  

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing? Great short quote and quotation by: Epictetus, Discourses , Roman (Greek-born) […]

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When you have once seen the glow of…

15 Feb , 2011  

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Great short quote and […]

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Marrion Zimmer Bradley

Without a dream to light your way, …

15 Feb , 2011  

Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place. Great short quote and quotation by: Marrion Zimmer Bradley ,

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Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel

Work while you have the light. You …

19 Aug , 2010  

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. Great short quote and quotation by: Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel ,

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Malcolm X, Autobiography of Malcolm X chap 4

Yes, I have cherished my “demagogue…

27 Apr , 2010  

Yes, I have cherished my “demagogue” role. I know that societies often have killed the people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having bought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help to destroy the racist cancer that is maligant in the body of America – then, […]

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Vicomte de Chateaubriand

You are not superior just because y…

27 Apr , 2010  

You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light. Great short quote and quotation by: Vicomte de Chateaubriand , French author & politician (1768 – 1848)

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Dag Hammarskjold

You are the lens in the beam. You c…

27 Apr , 2010  

You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, […]

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Michelangelo, Poem Fragment

You conquer every hardness with you…

27 Apr , 2010  

You conquer every hardness with your eyes, as you do likewise every light; so if it can happen that one can die of joy, now would be the time. Great short quote and quotation by: Michelangelo, Poem Fragment ,

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Lyndon Johnson

You do not examine legislation in t…

27 Apr , 2010  

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered. Great short quote and quotation by: Lyndon Johnson ,

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