Quotes of: Light-things Keyword

The villages were lighting up, constellations that greeted each other across the dusk. And, at the touch of his finger, his flying-lights flashed back a greeting to them. The earth grew spangled with light signals as each house lit its star, searchin...

Night Flight

It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. He is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes t...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have s...

The Wind Among the Reeds 1899

The Emperor: If you will not be turned, you will be destroyed! [shoots Luke with Force lightning] The Emperor: Young fool... Only now, at the end, do you understand... [the Emperor shoots at Luke with more Force lighting] The Emperor: Your feeble ski...

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

But perhaps there are insensitive hearts, still incapable of receiving this Light because the weight of their sins prevents them from seeing it. Let them not imagine that they Light is absent because they do not see it, for on account of their sins t...

Augustine of Hippo

A scattering of pinpoint lights shows up in the blackness ahead. A town or village straddling the highway. The indicator on the speedometer begins to lose ground. The man glances in his mirror at the girl, a little anxiously as if this oncoming town ...

The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich

It is important to note that the lampstand in the tabernacle did not cast a broad light, illuminating everything in the tabernacle; the focus of its beam was specifically on the bread of presence. Likewise, the church is not called to illuminate ever...

The Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family Collide...

In Poems of Love and Light: The Light of The Sun…Our Breath as One, the tenor seems to have changed slightly, as the progression of Love and lovers is, in many cases (if not all) quixotic, dependent upon mutual understanding, the conditions of the ...

Frank L. DeSilva

Faith is a light. You could be experiencing one of the darkest nights of the soul, lost, confused with no answers, no guidance. Those are all dark thoughts that we have had when we felt the most alone. But we escaped because we believed. That's the p...

Jason Micheal Ratliff

I was working with a Crookes tube covered by a shield of black cardboard. A piece of barium platino-cyanide paper lay on the bench there. I had been passing a current through the tube, and I noticed a peculiar black line across the paper. ... The eff...

Wilhelm Röntgen

He who takes a light to find a snake should start at his own feet.

African

Sergei doesn’t yearn for love…he thirsts for domination, and now he has finally achieved it.

City of Lights: The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier

People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. But safety – like light – is a façade.

Captive in the Dark

No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes.

Critias

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?

Cosmopolis

The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Despite the weight of the world on my shoulders, the temptation to stop and smell the supernatural roses tugged on my sleeves a time or two.

Dark Light of Mine

For those who confuse you, recognize that their confusion is theirs and your clarity is yours.

Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living

The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.

Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore

I prefer for 'my world' to have the highest certification of being a faithful representation of the exterior world.

Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore

Being the light of the world is about being a broken, exploding, scarred star and shining a light of hope and inspiration to everyone around you.

Barefoot Christianity