Best light & trying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“...There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man's words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point where he can simply say, 'The sky is blue,' and people indignantly rush up trying to refute him saying, 'No, the sky is light blue,' then, whether they realize it or not, he has become an authority figure even to such adversaries.”

People Ifs Men Trying Light Realizing Leadership Sky Figures Authority Blue Spite Grants Adversaries Another Man Saying No Authority Figures Light Blue

Author:Criss Jami

“That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your phone in the middle of Times Square.”

Trying Light Watches Middle Internet Phones Colour Squares Eyeballs Times Square

Author:Michel Gondry

“You cannot see the Milky Way in New York City any more ... We risk the loss of our sensual perception. And if you lose those, naturally, you try to compensate by other stimulations, by very loud noises, or by bright lights or drugs.”

Ifs Way Trying Light Loses Loss Cities Risk New York Drug Perception Noise Sensual Loud New York City Stimulation Milky Way Bright Lights Loud Noises

Author:Rene Dubos

“Some people say their life is full of darkness and I wonder why they don't just try and switch the lights on.”

People Trying Light Life Is Wonder Darkness

Author:William H. Gass

“The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is the choice of impressions that the light in the universe furnishes to my consciousness as an artisan which I try, by imposing an Order, and Art, an appropriate representative life, to organize.”

Trying Mean Art Light Spirit Order Choices Universe Speak Consciousness Harmony Mathematics Impression Bother Appropriate Representatives Organize Imposing Artisans

Author:Robert Delaunay

“The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are endlessly engaging. I try to use the medium to its maximum, pushing well beyond tradition.”

Trying Wells Use Light Space Issues Color Balance Tradition Mediums Landscape Appropriate Pushing Formal Repetition Engaging Maximum Format Quilts

Author:Elizabeth Barton

“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

“We must walk according to the highest light we have, encountering lovingly those who are out of harmony, and trying to inspire them toward a better way. Whenever you bring harmony into any unpeaceful situation, you contribute to the cause of peace. When you do something for world peace, peace among groups, peace among individuals, or your own inner peace, you improve the total peace picture.”

World Way Trying Light Individual Causes Walks Situation Groups Inspire Highest Harmony Inner Peace Better Ways

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“When you see paintings of some of the saints, or of Christ, they all have lights around their heads. What the painters are trying to convey is the psychic light, which is around everyone.”

Trying Light Christ Christianity Painting Saint Painter Psychics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Try to have a more expanded sense of that which you are. Feel that you are eternity. There's only goodness. There's only light.”

Feels Trying Light Goodness Yoga Eternity Bhakti Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never wholly succeeds in overtaking the reality.”

Trying Humans Reality Light Faces Grace Magic Succeed Shadow Paint Passing Passings Painter Human Faces Light And Shadow Overtaking

Author:John Edgar Park

“I try to catch at many a tuneLike petals of light fallen from the moon,Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,But they float away - for who can holdYouth, or perfume or the moon's gold?”

Trying Light Dark Broken Moon Gold Fallen Perfume Floats Petals Lagoons

Book:Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

“One day History will pass judgment on each of the nations at war; she will weigh their measure of errors, lies, and heinous follies. Let us try to make ours light before her!”

Trying War Light Lying Nations One Day Judgment Errors Folly

Book:Above the battle

Source: Above the battle

“You've got to try a little kindness, yes show a little kindness Just shine your light for everyone to see. And if you try a little kindness, Then you'll overlook the blindness Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets.”

People Ifs Trying Littles Shows Light Kindness Streets Shining Blindness Narrow-minded

Author:Glen Campbell

“Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.”

Trying Light Energy Growth Blood Movement Decay

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“I had been in the gym training for many, many years, but I definitely stepped it up when it was time to get into shape to play 'Lights'. I began trying to live the life of a boxer, and that means everything that you would expect.”

Trying Years Mean Play Light Shapes Training Live Life Gym Boxers Gym Training

Author:Holt McCallany

“We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Light Understanding Answers Meetings Insight Plunge

Book:Tracks of a Fellow Struggler: Living and Growing Through Grief

Source: Tracks of a Fellow Struggler: Living and Growing Through Grief

“[On charity] I try to pick subjects that I can learn about and then focus on and then do as much as I can. If you have a tremendous amount of heat from the spotlight, then you're able to shine a little bit more of your light in a different direction. It's just deflecting. My dad calls it a celebrity credit card that you can cash in. I think if you're in this position you should do it.”

“I feel that in the past, my style has shown itself to be capable of handling dark and light in the same paragraph, or even in the same sentence. That's something I almost take for granted. I think it was more a concern to get the details right and persuasively recreate the world I was trying to write about.”

Thinking World Feels Writing Trying Light Past Dark Style Capable Concern Details Sentences Granted Paragraph

Author:Michael Chabon

“You have to stay true to yourself and where youre coming from, and sometimes people see you in a different light, but you have to take it in and try to be positive about anything.”

People Trying Different Sometimes Light Being Positive True To Yourself Stay True Stay True To Yourself

Author:McKayla Maroney

“What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!”

Trying Mind Believe Light Inspiration Names Direct Incredibles Almighty Peril Credulity

Book:Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)

Source: Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)

“It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords of its own. It seeks to away with classes, to make the best that has been taught and known in the world current everywhere, to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely--nourished, and not bound by them.”

Men World Trying May Doe Has Beens Made Ideas Use Light Culture Winning Levels Known Class Taught Ready Judgment Bounds Currents Atmosphere Inferiors Sweetness Sects

Author:Matthew Arnold

“I try to explain the difference to a client between cleaning and restoration.Cleaning is simply removing some light to moderate soils. Restoration is removing those hardened deposits and stains that require heavier cleaners and much more time. Or on a building that has just been built or renovated it's removing all the construction debris. Setting expectations can go a long way to having and keeping satisfied customers.”

“Do not try to be what you are not, be what you are. The Universe has a built in truth recognizer, what ever is false about you, it will expose to light, either through you or others, pay attention.”

Trying Light Truth Universe Pay Attention Built Pay Attention

Author:Marcus Thomas

“I wonder, now, about interrogation chambers: why do they think bright light brings the truth out of people? They should try the seduction of shadows, where you cannot watch your words hit their target.”

People Thinking Should Trying Light Wonder Watches Shadow Target Seduction Chamber Interrogation Bright Lights

Author:Anna Funder

“I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,' what I'm trying to do in the guise of light entertainment, if this is possible - is nudge people, jostle them a little, wake them up to some of the ways in which we're being manipulated and exploited.”

People Ifs Way Trying May Littles I Can Light Entertainment Guise Biting Nudge

Author:Matt Groening

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