L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Light the torch. Where is the torch you ask! Look at the mirror.”
Source: When Call The People: My World My Responsibility
“Light therapy is associated with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) which brings on depression symptoms in some people during wintertime and in others during summertime, called “Reverse SAD”. The treatment requires shining a really bright light (10,000 lux) onto the face and arms typically from 15 to 60 minutes in the morning. This is done as soon as the person wakes up.”
Source: Magee’s Disease
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
“Light threatens, is active, is gone,
so it is with a song.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“Light to me is perhaps the most profound truth in the universe. My thinking has been deeply affected by the belief everything is some form of radiant energy.”
Source: Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning
“Light tomorrow with today!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
“Light-touch government works more efficiently in the presence of social capital. Police close more cases when citizens monitor neighborhood comings and goings. Child welfare departments do a better job of “family preservation” when neighbors and relatives provide social support to troubled parents. Public schools teach better when parents volunteer in classrooms and ensure that kids do their homework. When community involvement is lacking, the burdens on government employees—bureaucrats, social workers, teachers, and so forth—are that much greater and success that much more elusive.”
Source: Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
“Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.”
“Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.”
“Light up a spliff and hit the strip club.”
“Light up the darkness”
“Light up the darkness for another, especially when at some point they have lit up your darkness.”
“Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away.”
“Light up the lamp of knowledge like the stars that illuminate the skies in the night”
“Light up the lamp of knowledge so that the brightness called wisdom appears”
“Light up the lamps of Joy and let there be smiles.”
Source: Yog To Yoga
“Light up the radiant flame of conscience, goodwill and compassion in your heart, and go over the length and breadth of your society in the pursuit of shedding light over the whole world. And in time, you’ll become a glorious sun that will shine over the entire human population.”
Source: Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
“Light up your heart and the world will be lit.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“Light up your heart for others and their smiles will take your pain away.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.”
Source: The Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and Poetical Works, Complete ; Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy
“Light was first Through the Lord's word Named day: Beauteous, bright creation!”
Source: Cædmon's metrical paraphrase of parts of the holy Scriptures, in Anglo-Sax., with an Engl. tr., notes and index by B. Thorpe
“Light weight ... Yeah buddy!”
“Light will be dark tomorrow and dark will be light. Light will die and dark will have a rebirth.”
“Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.”
Source: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
“Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.”
“Light will someday split you open”
“Light works most effectively in darkness.”
“Light-years away, another starship was also experiencing problems, though perhaps not as severe. The I.S.S. Antares was not a new ship either. Many older ships in the imperial space fleet reaching retirement age were being refitted with more modern equipment to extend their useful lives. Thus, technologically at least, Antares was currently one of the most advanced ships of the Imperial Space Fleet. Unfortunately, she was now also one of the most troubled. This is what the Phoenix refitting program had done to the Antares.”
Source: Blachart
“Light years beyond anything I expected or dared to hope for!”
“Light your fire.”
“Light your flame among us, R’hllor,” said the red priest. “Show us the truth or falseness of this man. Strike him down if he is guilty, and give strength to his sword if he is true. Lord of Light, give us wisdom.”
“For the night is dark,” the others chanted, Harwin and Anguy loud as all the rest, “and full of terrors.”
“This cave is dark too,” said the Hound, “but I’m the terror here. I hope your god’s a sweet one, Dondarrion. You’re going to meet him shortly.”
Source: A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow
“Light your life with purpose and all shadows will disappear.”
Source: Blight In The Ocean: Magic And Mayhem - Book 3
“Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn.”
“Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room.”
Source: The House in Good Taste
“Light, air, sound. In every space, it's how you embrace those things.”
“Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.”
“Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest!”
Source: The Best of the Equinox, Enochian Magic
“Light, Love, and Will - the one is as necessary as the other; the one is dangerous without the others. Light, Love, and Will are the three eternal, vital sources of the higher, truer, purer cosmic life.”
Source: The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition
“Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile”
Source: Plays of William Shakespeare
“Light, the visible reminder of Invisible Light.”
Source: Paper Towns
“Light, to me, stands for Living In Gods Heavenly Thoughts. That's a good place to live. That is what influenced me to tell stories in light and that happened to be movies and plays.”
“Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.”
Source: Guesses at Truth
“Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Light-enchanted sunflower, thou
Who gazest ever true and tender
On the sun's revolving splendour.”
“Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)
“Light-leaved acacias, by the door,
Stood up in balmy air,
Clusters of blossomed moonlight bore,
And breathed a perfume rare.”
Source: The Disciple, and Other Poems
“Light-skinned black people are seen to be closer to white people. The allegiance to lighter-skinned people has operated in a very destructive way that we have internalized ourselves inside black communities. You look at many of the prominent black people in this society who have been able to do well. Many have been lighter-skinned.”
“Light. Light I think is knowledge. Knowledge is love. Love is freedom. Freedom is energy. Energy is all. Without light, we can't have images.”
“LightBorns play a type of infinite game that extends resources to their maximum. They are willing to assist their human counterparts of the [We], and they also want us to do our share of the work. More than once, I heard, "Don't expect Santa to bring any gifts if you don't do your homework.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence