L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Light enhances but its shadow deletes, thus giving the picture its depth, its third dimension and its subtractive properties... I believe that commitment and technical skill can be achieved by means of one's own will and study , while fantasy and passion are more valuable because they are innate and inescapably peculiar assets.”
“Light entertainment means it mustn't teach you anything.”
“Light Facets Rainbow's Radiance Inna's Sacred Globe's Temperance”
“Light fell, and so did my confidence.”
Source: Out of The Easy
“Light filtered down through the water to the bed where the frilly pearl oysters lay fastened to the rub-bly bottom, a bottom strewn with shells of broken. opened oysters. This was the bed that had raised the
King of Spain to be a great power in Europe in past years, had helped to pay for his wars, and had deco-rated the churches for his soul's sake. The gray oysters with ruffles like skirts on the shells, the barnacle. crusted oysters with little bits of weed clinging to the skirts and small crabs climbing over them. An acci dent could happen to these oysters, a grain of sand could lie in the folds of muscle and irritate the flesh until in self-protection the flesh coated the grain with a layer of smooth cement. But once started, the flesh continued to coat the foreign body until it fell free in some tidal flurry or until the oyster was destroyed. For centuries men had dived down and torn the oys-ters from the beds and ripped them open, looking for the coated grains of sand. Swarms of fish lived near the bed to live near the oysters thrown back by the searching men and to nibble at the shining inner shells. But the pearls were accidents, and the finding of one was luck, a little pat on the back by God or the gods or both.”
Source: The Pearl
“Light flared through every limb, a force far too great to be contained in any human frame; but for that moment she was the Great Mother, giving birth to the world.”
Source: Lady of Avalon
“Light flashed in her eyes. In fact, it clung to her—flaring around her skin, her hair, her whole body. It was a trick of the eyes, his mind, when adrenaline hit his system. But she glowed. Vivid. Alive. And for a moment, he’d have given anything to be like her.”
Source: Losing My Breath
“Light flooded their senses; for a split second Olivia, blinking in its brilliance, thought the light was actually yellow. Then she blinked again, and the room itself was yellow: yellow roses climbing the walls, a white and yellow canopy- of course, a canopy- matching the wadded silk bedspread, braided yellow rugs strewn across the bare wooden floorboards. Abby gave a little cry and ran to the curved windows opposite, where a riot of yellow and pink throw pillows lined the window seat.”
Source: Starting from Scratch
“Light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord's return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.”
“Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.”
“LIGHT FROM WITHIN my friend, cancer got you damn it: you had it beat for seven years at least. how did it come back? Why all that pain. again. and you, such a fighter you fought me over and over with tears and words and promises. you fought for me with honesty and a light so bright it hurts my heart. sweet lorna. at peace now finally no more battles, just light from within a flickering candle in the dark burns with you.”
“Light gave birth to the existence.
Existence gave birth to reality.
Reality gave birth to eternity.
Eternity gave birth to time.
Time gave birth to life.
The past gave birth to the future.
The future gave birth to the present.
God gave birth to the universe.
The universe gave birth to the cosmos.
The cosmos gave birth to the world.
The world gave birth to nature.
Nature gave birth to life.
Life gave birth to mankind.
Mankind gave birth to humanity.”
“Light generates life and causes it to grow.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“Light gesture and color of the key compliments of any photograph. Light and color are obvious, but it is just her that is the most important. There is gesture in everything. It's up to you to find a gesture that is most telling.”
“Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.”
Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb”
“Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.”
“Light had a way of keeping the monsters of my imagination at bay.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“Light has a voice?” Sarucha inquired, amazed.”
Source: Teacher of Knowledge
“Light has a way of keeping people honest.”
“Light has an evident, functional and aesthetic impact on our lives.”
“Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.”
“Light has come to the world and men loved darkness rather than light.”
“Light has no mass and takes up no space. A black hole singularity is not that from which light cannot escape. A black hole singularity is light. It is that from which mass cannot escape. All material mass has been converted into light, hence is now massless. The only way you can fit mass into a Singularity is by converting it into massless light.”
Source: The Dimitri Revolution: How DMT Changed Humanity
“Light has no value if there is no darkness.”
“Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat surface.”
Source: Logbook
“Light has nowhere to hide in the dark.”
“Light has spread, and even bayonets think.”
Source: Authentic Life of ... Louis Kossuth ... With a full Report of his Speeches delivered in England ... To which is added his Address to the People of the United States of America
“Light has to come at some point. Night can't stay here forever.”
Source: The Upside of Falling Down
“Light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers.”
Source: Fern leaves from Fanny's port-folio
“Light heat all known all white heart breath no sound.”
Source: Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976
“Light helps its enemies; darkness harms even its friends.”
“light hides, fearful of the things in the dark
And particles float like stars among the teeth.”
Source: Jellyfish Through My Heart
“Light. Hope. Home. Autumn was coming, but with her by my side, the promise of summer spread its wings in me. I would hold on to that and fight for this life I wanted until I had no more breath inside me.”
Source: Honey in Her Veins
“Light — i.e. space — is the structure of time, the essence of existence. The stuff of physics does not involve time. Orthodox contemporary physics sadly refers to this fact as “the problem of time.”
Source: Mythology & History
“Light. I took to watching it on the spring trees, noticing how it turned the delicate new leaves translucent. I observed the way it threw shadows against walls; tossed stardust across the surface of the water; made filigree on the ground where it fell through wrought-iron railings. I wanted to touch it, this marvelous tool. To hold it in my fingertips the way I did the tiny objects on my father's workbench.”
Source: The Clockmaker's Daughter
“Light Impossible (The Sonnet)
A candle knows only to give light,
Despite being surrounded by darkness.
Darkness cannot affect the candle's light,
A candle cannot be coerced into heartlessness.
The struggle for light has never been easy,
If it were, light would be but a cigarette-butt.
Light is priceless, hence the struggle is eternal,
To be light is to be alive, even amidst the dark.
To be light is to see light, this is the law,
To be good is to see good, this is the way.
One whose hands are guided by love and light,
Even amidst ominous storms never goes astray.
Love for the world causes light impossible.
For love for the people is love untameable.”
Source: Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability
“Light in comparison with darkness is a void.”
“Light in love is joy.
Light in faith is hope.
Light in compassion is mercy.
Light in gratitude is contentment.
Light in understanding is awareness.
Light in intellect is discernment.
Light in certainty is conviction.
Light in patience is expectation.
Light in truth is discovery.
Light in innocence is virtue.
Light in experience is illumination.
Light in consciousness is realization.
Light in your world is warmth.
Light in your sky is energy.
Light in your universe is wisdom.
Light in your yourself is virtue.
Light in your mind is truth.
Light in your heart is knowledge.
Light in your soul is wisdom.
Light in your life is God.”
“Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.”
“Light in your mind is better than darkness in your soul.”
“Light inspires me. I'm drawn to architecture, often graves, statues, trees - things usually that are quite still. I've been taking pictures continuously since 1995 until the end of Polaroid film. I'm taking very few pictures nowadays because I have very little film left, most of it expired.”
“Light is a beautiful servant; darkness is a dangerous master.”
“Light is a great opportunity for the darkness to realize that there exists a different world than the world of darkness! You can attain wisdom only when you discover the worlds beyond your own world! For the darkness to be wise, it must know the light; for the light to be wise, it must know the darkness!”
“Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile . . . I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space.”
Source: Occluded front, James Turrell
“Light is a shepherd, the blind are its sheep.”
“Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color.”
“Light is active.
Dark is passive.
The definition of dark is: an attribute where there is no light.
Darkness doesn't even exist, it's the absence of something that does exist.”
“Light is actually the first word I said as a little baby.”
“Light is always welcome in the dark.”
Source: Ouch! A memoir with a twist…