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Quotes About Light

"A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit."
~ Karl Kraus
The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.
~ Keith Carter
Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events.
~ Marshall McLuhan
She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.
~ May Sarton
Every time I see a smiling person on earth, I feel the warmth of the Sun in the sky.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Who ignores the time walks in darkness, and who explores it is illumined by a great light.
~ Moses ibn Ezra
Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.
~ George Washington
There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light.
~ Robert Adams
You're like this little blip of light that lasts for a very brief time and you can shine as brightly as you choose.
~ Sean Faircloth
...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
No - the light in Tamani's eyes was much more than a reflection. It was the fire that melted her anger and devastated her resolve, every single time she saw it.
~ Aprilynne Pike
One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.
~ Barack Obama
It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that.
~ Nick Cave
Spend time with spiritual friends, those who seek light. Purity is gained through strength.
~ Frederick Lenz
You have the possibility to give light a dimension in time.
~ Jonas Mekas
It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.
~ Markus Zusak, Underdog
The Master knows better than to exhaust His servants and quench the light of Israel. Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.
~ Edward Abbey
Photography is space, light, texture, of course, but the really important element is time - that nanosecond when the image organizes itself on the ground glass.
~ Ezra Stoller
In the cross of Christ I glory,Towering o'er the wrecks of time;All the light of sacred storyGathers round its head sublime.
~ John Bowring
Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.
~ Joseph Glanvill