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“I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.”

“For the most part, of course, the presence of the great spiritual universe surrounding us is no more noticed by us than the pressure of air on our bodies, or the action of light. Our field of attention is not wide enough for that; our spiritual senses are not sufficiently alert. Most people work so hard at developing their correspondence with the visible world, that their power of correspondence with the invisible is left in a rudimentary state.”

“I rest in the light of forgiveness. I forgive myself and others for that which is done (and better left undone) and also that which is not done (and better if done). I give myself permission to enjoy this moment without guilt. I freely release all uncertainty, regret, and fear.”

Ifs Giving Done Moments Light Left Enjoy Regret Forgiving Guilt Release Uncertainty Permission Undone

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“I left Guiding Light so many times, they ran out of champagne.”

Light Left Ran Champagne Guiding Light

Author:Michael Zaslow

“Before I had a son, I used to look at my father's example: he left me, he left my mother. When I had a son, I got caught in the same situation that his mother don't want me to see him. I started looking at my father in a different light.”

Want Looks Different Light Used Mother Father Left Situation Example Son Caught Want Me He Left Me

Author:French Montana

“What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil?”

Light Evil Left Dark Goodness

Author:Christian Harrison

“I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.”

Light Left Flower Solitude Faded Left Alone Banquets

Author:Edward George, Baron George

“That's what Hanukkah is about: trying to survive the darkness on the far-fetched hope there's still some life and light left in the universe. It's more than just a religious story. The days have been growing shorter, imperceptibly but inescapably darker.... Heading into the night of the winter solstice, every spiritual tradition has some kind of festival of light. We're all just whistling in the dark, hoping against hope that someone up there will see these little Hanukkah candles and get the hint.”

Source: I'm God, You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other Disguises of the Ego

“Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late--and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again find our way despite the inability to manufacture a deeper meaning in our suffering, that I think is when God smiles upon us, proud of the strength of his creation.”

“Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.”

Ifs Should Littles Ends Light Fall Left Speak Missing Objects Conversation Balls Dear Spheres Plates Rainbow Clay Bangs Pipe Glitter Drifting Juggling Drifting Off

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came down to visit.”

Source: Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel

“In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn't have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out.”

States Enough Problem Light Three Left Millions Dollars South Candidates Als Million Dollars Gore Tuesday Iowa Dakota Hampshire New Hampshire South Dakota

Author:Dick Gephardt

“I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one little light that's left. I'm lucky I found one little glimmer stored away.”

Littles Light Found Left Sadness Greatness Lucky Destroyed

Author:Lady Gaga

“It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.”

Hands Light Left Dark Darkness Cold Shadow Female Males Snow Warmth Cold War Left Hand Fear Courage Yang Yin And Yang Light Dark

Book:The Left Hand of Darkness

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness

“Souls in heathen darkness lying, where no light has broken through, souls that Jesus bought by dying, whom his soul in travail knew.... Haste, o haste and spread the tidings, let no shore be left untrod, no lost brother's bitter chidings haunt us from the further sod; tell the heathen all the precious truths of God.”

Soul Light Lying Jesus Lost Left Darkness Dying Brother Broken Spread Bitter Shore Haste Heathen Tidings Truth Of God Sod Lost Brother

Author:Cecil Frances Alexander

“Now I'm not making love to anyone's wishes, Only for that light I see 'Cause when I'm dead and lowered low in my grave, That's gonna be the only thing that's left of me.”

Light Left Wish Causes Lows Graves Making Love

Author:Cat Stevens

“Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and musing sages, Lights who beam'd through many ages! Left to your conscious leaves their story, And dared to trust you with their glory; And now their hope of fame achiev'd, Dear volumes! you have not deceived!”

Book Stories Hands Light Eye Age Left Pleasure Objects Please Fame Glory Conscious Dear Brilliant Wit Treasure Golden Rejoice Volume Sage Delicious Deceived Beam Rapture Musings

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self that pines and broods and reflects. You furnish a dream house in your imagination, but how startling and final when that dream house is your own address. What is left to you? Surrounded by what you wanted, you feel a sense of amputation. The feelings you were used to abiding with are useless. The conditions you established for your happiness are met. That youthful light-headed feeling whose sharp side is much like hunger is of no more use to you.”

“Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto the train ... into the chair in the sickroom ... and is suddenly transported to a place where light fights dark and wins. When the story's over, one is left without a hangover, without remorse. Can any other opiate make that claim?”

Ifs Stories Light Fighting Winning Left Strong Dark Fiction Mystery Drink Bed Claims Train Chairs Companion Substitutes Slips Remorse Hangover Opiates Strong Drink

Author:Mary Cantwell

“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.”

Littles Stills Ends Light Film Left Tree Inspire Architecture Graves Statues Taking Pictures Expired Polaroids

Author:Patti Smith

“And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes its true shape. I fight to go back to that blissful ignorance, but it is too late. The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.”

Believe Wells Soul Light Pain Fighting Left Rooms Ignorance Shapes Late Weight My Soul Awake Dull Too Late Subtle Pulling Blissful Ignorance

Book:The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“The sun sank with a sob and darkness waded in from all horizons so that the sky contracted and there was no more light left in the world, when, at this very moment of annihilation, the moon, as though she had been waiting for her cue, sailed up the night.”

World Moments Light Night Left Waiting Darkness Sun Sky Moon Horizon Annihilation

Book:Titus Alone

Source: Titus Alone

“They all knew the mothership was coming, they all knew it was a flying saucer, they all knew it came from another planet through the vacuum of space. And so what do they do, to the left of that monument? They set up runway lights. And I'm thinking, if you could travel through the vacuum of space, you don't need runway lights. Runway lights are if you're using air for lift. Aliens would not need air for lift.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Light Culture Left Space Air Planets Flying Aliens Lifts Monument Vacuums Runway Flying Saucers

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.”

Life Self Light Left Grief Contempt Tempest Shrouds

Author:Petrarch

“Alone? Is he alone at whose right side rides Courage, with Skill within the cockpit and faith upon the left? Does solitude surround the brave when Adventure leads the way and Ambition reads the dials? Is there no company with him, for whom the air is cleft by Daring and the darkness made light by Emprise?”

Way Doe Made Soul Light Left Sides Company Darkness Air Adventure Solitude Skills Ambition Brave Surround Daring Cockpit

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“There are some things in science which should be brought to light. There are others, doctor, which should be left alone.”

Should Light Science Left Knowledge Doctors Left Alone

Author:Griffin Jay

“Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.”

Light Age Faith Left Grows Goes On Sorrow Pure Solitude Shining Old Age Revelations

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius is too rare, too precious, to be permitted to waste the best years of life--the years of youth and lofty dreams--in a heart-breaking struggle for bread. To starve the soul with the body is to do worse than murder. Think, too, of what the public loses!”

Thinking Way Should Years Believe Heart Soul Dream Body Light Fighting Left Loses Struggle Youth Genius Waste Musician Murder Bread Lofty Best Year Heart Breaking Years Of Life

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in Camp David in 1998 - Madeleine Albright and the Clintons were there, and I just became really inspired by all of these amazing people. I left the screening asking myself what I could do.”

People Moments Light Left Asking Clinton Inspired Camps Hunting Good Will Screening Bulbs Light Bulb Amazing People Madeleines Will Hunting

Author:Lawrence Bender

“When we sit down to draw or paint the sun's rays, we generally use yellow because in the morning and the evening with the blue light scattered away so strongly you're left with a little bit of red and it comes out yellowish.”

Littles Use Light Left Bits Morning Sun Little Bit Draws Red Blue Paint Evening Rays Yellow

Author:Bill Nye

“When you're doing a show on stage, and they show you a red light, that means you have 5 minutes left. At some clubs, they hold a candle up in the back. That's the worst method. You're up here, and then you see a floating candle. "Oh, no! This place is haunted!" I can't be funny when I'm frightened.”

Mean I Can Shows Humor Light Funny Left Minutes Worst Stage Red Method Clubs Frightened Candle Floating Red Lights

Author:Mitch Hedberg

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