Best light & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.”

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The magic of life, of course, is not something that can be explained. Structures can only take us to the point where they begin or end. Beyond structures is the white light.”

Inspirational Ends Light Courses White Magic Buddhism Structure White Light Magic Of Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning words within Samsara, perhaps to create a thing of beauty.”

World Ends Dream Light Strive Burning Nameless Samsara

Author:Roger Zelazny

“The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I came to the end of the blacktop road that cut through twenty miles of thick, almost impenetrable scrub oak and pine and stopped at the front gate of Angola penitentiary.”

Ends Light Fall Cutting Sky Fronts Color Rain Twenties Miles Evening Gates Thick Torn Purple Oaks Plums Evening Sky Angola

Author:James Lee

“We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds. Which is better is clear, for the Christian ideal is always positive rather than negative. A person is great not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God. Asceticism and mortification are not the ends of a Christian life; they are only the means. The end is charity. Penance merely makes an opening in our ego in which the Light of God can pour. As we deflate ourselves, God fills us. And it is God’s arrival that is the important event.”

“For why, my brothers and sisters, would you rejoice in silver? Either your silver will perish, or you will, and no one knows which will perish first. For neither can you remain here always, nor can silver remain here always; so also with gold, wardrobes, houses, money, real estate-and in the end, even the light by which we enjoy all these things. So do not be willing then to rejoice in such things as these. Rejoice instead in the light that has no setting; rejoice in the dawn which no yesterday precedes, and no tomorrow follows.”

“In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. The second kind of observer is the extreme reductionist who is so busy stripping things apart that the tremendous mystery has been reduced to a trifle, to intangibles not worth troubling one's head about.”

“Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is.”

Knows Ends Light Tunnels Light At The End Of The Tunnel End Of The Tunnel

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“At the end of the dream, on the other side of the rainbow, there's only light.”

Ends Dream Light Sides Yoga Rainbow

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the people or the feminine, works in favor of universal suffrage, i.e. the domination of the inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment.”

“The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward spoke of a time of evil that was coming upon the land his inspired mutterings struck terror into the hearers.”

Ends Light Evil Darkness Land Bed England Inspired Terror Gentle Prophet Spokes Going Out Grey Gathering Beard Death Bed Muttering

Book:History of the English Speaking Peoples: Based on the Text of 'A History of the English-speaking Peoples' by Sir Winston Churchill

Source: History of the English Speaking Peoples: Based on the Text of 'A History of the English-speaking Peoples' by Sir Winston Churchill

“He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns into a dead machine, clashing and grinding on, without purpose or end. If the light within us be darkness, how great is that darkness!”

Ifs Looks Ends Light Purpose Turns Universe Loses Darkness Machines Look Up Heavenly Light Within

Book:Self-culture, lectures

Source: Self-culture, lectures

“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

“Movies are movies. Some bend light through a lens. Some create moving images virtually. At the end of the day, movies are movies.”

Ends Light Moving The End Of The Day Lenses

Author:Robert Zemeckis

“If Broadway was a river running from the top of Manhattan down to the Battery, undulating with traffic and commerce and lights, then the east-west streets were eddies where, leaf-like, one could turn slow circles from the beginning to the ever shall be, world without end.”

Ifs World Ends Light Running Turns Streets Rivers West East Circles Commerce Traffic Leafs Broadway Manhattan Batteries

Book:Rules of Civility: A Novel

Source: Rules of Civility: A Novel

“Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)

“These are thy glorious works Parent of Good, Almighty, thine this universal Frame, Thus wondrous fair; thy self how wondrous then! Unspeakable, who sitst above these Heavens To us invisible or dimly seen In these thy lowest works, yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and Power Divine: Speak ye who best can tell, ye Sons of light, Angels, for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, Day without Night, Circle his Throne rejoicing, ye in Heav'n, On Earth join all ye Creatures to extoll Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.”

“And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.”

Ifs Wells Ends Light Used Safe Conscience Guides Umpires

Author:John Milton

“The iron arc of the avoiding journey Curves back upon my weakness at the end; Whether the faint light spark against my face Or in the dark my sight hide from my sight, Centre and circumference are both my weakness.”

Ends Light Faces Dark Journey Weakness Sight Iron Sparks Centre Avoiding Curves Arcs

Book:World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender

Source: World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender

“People have passed through a very dark tunnel at the end of which there was a light of freedom. Unexpectedly they passed through the prison gates and found themselves in a square. They are now free and they don't know where to go.”

People Knows Ends Light Found Dark Prison Gates Squares Tunnels

Author:Vaclav Havel

“If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.”

Ifs Want Mean Ends Light Purpose Democracy Limits Determined

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility was simply to know the season, and match my actions and inactions to it. It was to learn the slow hard discipline of waiting. It was my season to believe in spite of-to believe in the absence of evidence or emotion, when there's nothing, no bud, no color, no light, no birdsong, to validate belief. It was my time to walk without sight.”

Knows Believe Ends Hard Light Action Belief Waiting My Own Walks Emotion Responsibility Color Discipline Evidence Seasons Sight Winter Insight Absence My Time Spite Inaction Bud Birdsong

Author:Mark Buchanan

“I need a hero, I'm holding out for at hero 'till the end of the night He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast And he's gotta be fresh from the fight I need a hero, I'm holding out for a hero 'till the morning light He's gotta be sure and it's gotta be soon And he's gotta be larger than life, larger than life”

Needs Ends Light Night Fighting Strong Morning Hero Larger Than Life Till The End Morning Light

Author:Bonnie Tyler

“This instrument [radio] can teach. It can illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it's nothing but wires and lights in a box.”

Humans Ends Use Light Can Do Education Teach Inspire Instruments Radio Boxes Determined Wire Good Night And Good Luck

Book:In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961

Source: In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961

“It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military maneuvers, right down at the bottom end of the scale that things like the Charge of the Light Brigade are at the top of.”

Ends Light History Military Humour Bottom Scales Discworld

Author:Terry Pratchett

“It's nice, when the lights come up at the end of the movie, to not be like, "What did I just watch?"”

Ends Light Watches Nice Come Up

Author:Jon Hamm

“How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!”

Men Ends Light Poor Poverty Childhood Tunnels Gloom Poor Man Railway Future Life Extremity

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.”

Source: Bouncing back: I've survived everything-- and I mean everything-- and you can too!

“You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that destroy the physique and still hope to have a physique that functions with the minimum of destruction to itself. A candle burnt at both ends may shed a brighter light, but the darkness that follows is for a longer time.”

May Stills Ends Light Darkness Health Amount Destruction Function Candle Shed Minimum Indulge Brighter Liquor Indulge In Time Heals Physique Nightlife

Author:Coco Chanel

“Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine on a fool. But for one end, one much-neglected use, Are riches worth your care; (for nature's wants Are few, and without opulence supplied;) This noble end is, to produce the soul; To show the virtues in their fairest light; To make humanity the minister Of bounteous Providence; and teach the breast The generous luxury the gods enjoy.”

“A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.”

Ends Light Sides Darkness Hell Sorrow Sight Rounds Horrible Flames Torture Visible Regions Shade Woe Dungeons Furnaces Paradise Lost Book 9 Paradise Lost Book 1 Doleful

Author:John Milton

“There are some people who don't conform to the signals. An ordinary well-regulated locomotive slows down or pulls up when it sees the red light hoisted against it. Perhaps I was born color blind. When I see the red signal -- I can't help forging ahead. And in the end, you know, that spells disaster.”

People Knows Wells I Can Ends Helping Light Born Color Ordinary Red Blind Disaster Spells Conform Signals Slow Down Pull Ups Forging Red Lights Locomotives Forging Ahead

Author:Agatha Christie

“There are going to be a lot of problems with social cohesion. We are already cutting down everything to the bone. Unless there is light at the end of the tunnel.”

Ends Problem Light Social Cutting Bones Tunnels Cohesion Light At The End Of The Tunnel End Of The Tunnel Cutting Down

Author:Antonis Samaras

“June marked the end of spring on California's central coast and the beginning of five months of dormancy that often erupted in fire. Mustard's yellow robes had long since turned red, then brown. Fog and sun mixed to create haze. The land had rusted. The mountains, once blue-hued with young oaks and blooming ceanosis, were tan and gray. I walked across the fallen blossoms of five yucca plants: only the bare poles of their stems remained to mark where their lights had shone the way.”

Way Long Ends Light Young Nature Sun Fire Five Land Months Mountain Spring Red Mark Blue Plant California Fallen Brown Gray Yellow Stem Coast Fog June Oaks Robes Blooming Haze Mustard

Author:Gretel Ehrlich

“Greater is he who suffers through the pain and comes through the other side improved. Greater is he who accepts discouragement and keeps forward momentum, never retreating. Greater is he who sees the light at the end of the tunnel and keeps their eye on the light. Greater is he who gets knocked off his feet and gets back up, dusts himself off and gets back in the fight. Life is tough, but you are stronger.”

“Remember, grab you're future with both hands and mold it into what you want it to be. It's the determined, who create the life they want, while the idle sit by and watch it fade away into nothingness. The future belongs to the exceptional individuals, who can see the light of the future, at the end of the tunnel.”

Want Ends Hands Light Motivational Remember Individual Watches Determined What You Want Fades Idle Nothingness Exceptional Mold Tunnels Fade Away End Of The Tunnel

Author:James D. Watson

“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

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