Quotes About Shining

He could see the Milky Way running parallel with the street, a celestial track of shining pebbles forging through the wasteland of the night.

Bright, shining, and empty, Sansa thought.

People can do great things, George. They can come up with noble, shining ideals. But people are also fallible human beings, and we know they made a terrible mistake. - Takekuma Norman Takei

Out of the scabbard of the night, By God's hand drawn, Flashes his shining sword of light, And lo, the dawn!

But Dean's intelligence was every bit as formal and shining and complete, without the tedious intellectualness. And his "criminality" was not something that sulked and sneered; it was a wild yea-saying overburst of American joy; it was Western, the west wind, an ode from the Plains, something new, long prophesied, long a-coming (he only stole cars for joy rides).

I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands and wrote my will across the sky in stars.To earn you Freedom, the seven-pillared worthy house, that your eyes might be shining for meWhen we came.

For one last second, I saw them again the way I had that evening: a golden apparition on the front steps, shining and poised like young warriors stepped out of some lost myth, heads lifted, too bright to be real.

They're like those First World War airmen, the finest ones, shining in their recklessness and invincible, who got home and found that home had no place for what they were.

If a man seeks to help and glorify his country and make her strong before her enemies his own people will leap at his throat and call him malefactor, a thief, a mountebank, a liar! Better it is to smile and smile and smile upon the people and show a shining countenance than to raise them above the ruck.

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town.

No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.

He was shown into the drawing-room, an apartment of great elegance and no character. Above the mantelpiece hung a portrait in pastel of Cicely O'Callaghan. The artist had dealt competently with the shining texture of the dress and hair, and had made a conscientious map of the face. Alleyn felt he would get about as much change from the original as he would from the picture.

She was a star, burning so brightly it broke apart, pieces flying, light spraying.

He was young and glorious and golden.

The love of God is ever shining, everlasting and never failing. He is a great God after all.

[W]hat was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself, — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose?

Your heart is a sun— Joy its stars, Faith a moon, shining in your darkness...

I remember the winter sun was shining and I felt cold and distant as the sun.

Knowledge is the beauty of a diamond, but wisdom is the shining reflection of that beauty.

One bright star is better than a thousand dull moons.

Your heart is a sun— Joy its stars, Faith a moon, shining in your darkness....

Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again.

There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.

It is late now, I am a bit tired; the sky is irritated by stars. And I love you, I love you, I love you – and perhaps this is how the whole enormous world, shining all over, can be created – out of five vowels and three consonants.