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Quotes About Shining

You people are looking for diamonds, But I'm looking for shine bright like a diamond !.???? ????? ?????? ?? ????? ? ??? ??? ???? ?? ??????? ??? ?????
~ Hicham LM Kamelionaire
Her hair was full of lights
~ Anais Nin
Remember that good things come in three's. And so do bad things. And always apologize when you've done something wrong. But don't you ever apologise for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining; your voice is small, but don't ever stop singing.
~ Sarah Kay
The eyes of all people are upon us. And all they see is a mash-up of naked prisoners and an American girl in fatigues standing there giving a thumbs-up. As I write this, the United States of America is still a city on a hill; and it's still shining—because we never turn off the lights in our torture prisons. That's how we carry out the sleep deprivation.
~ Sarah Vowell
Some big insect flew in and began walking on the table. I don't know what insect it was, but it was brown, shining, and rich in structures. In the city the big universal chain of insects gets thin, but where there's a leaf or two it'll be represented.
~ Saul Bellow
My very fingertips rehearsed how they would work the keys of the trumpet, imagination's trumpet, when I got ready to blow it at last. The peals of that brass would be heard beyond the earth, out in space itself. When that Messiah, that savior faculty the imagination was roused, finally we could look again with open eyes upon the whole shining earth.
~ Saul Bellow
Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
~ Edward Young
He goes Unto NIRVÂNA. He is one with Life, Yet lives not. He is blest, ceasing to be. OM, MANI PADME, OM! the Dewprop slips Into the shining sea!
~ Edwin Arnold
I've been wearing glitter probably since I seen myself on stage for the first time because I was like, Ooh, I need to be shining, so I put a little glitter on that.
~ Latto
maybe there is no sublime; only the shining of the amnion's tatters.
~ Galway Kinnell
I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.
~ Tycho Brahe
The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.
~ Jon Huntsman, Jr.
More often than not, she acted as if she wanted to protect him, from the image of herself--herself in the past. She liked to keep only the bright side of herself turned towards him. She liked to shine.
~ Margaret Atwood
The freezing rain sifts down, handfuls of shining rice thrown by some unseen celebrant. Wherever it hits, it crystallizes into a granulated coating of ice.
~ Margaret Atwood
I want to spend my time exploring the characters we've already got here. I want to give them more time to shine before the team gets to have 400 members.
~ Robert Kirkman
In the Savage Garden you shine beautifully, my friend. You walk as if it is your garden to do with as you please. And in my wanderings, I always return to you. I always return to see the colours of the garden in your shadow, or reflected in your eyes, perhaps, or to hear of your latest follies and mad obsessions.
~ Anne Rice
We're so obsessed about the risk of shining brightly that we've traded in everything that matters to avoid it.
~ Seth Godin
I want a brighter word than bright
~ John Keats
Perceval could not be crying, because Perceval did not cry. But something shining froze on her face as she strode at the center of the group, her parasite wings flared about her like a nest of barbs. She looked severe and resolute-no one could look pale, standing next to Tristen-and Rien admired her desperately.
~ Elizabeth Bear
He was shining dark, and exceeding fair: beautiful and awful, his long hands pale as bones against the red velvet of his coat.
~ Elizabeth Bear
If in this life only we have hope....." By God, that was true, too. This quickening divine power that he had experienced could not be confined to this world, for cruel, sordid, ugly, devilish can be this world, and by the nature of things that power could have neither source nor ending in it; only flow through it, around it, over it, under it, gathering up the gold into its eternal shining and burning the dross in its fire.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
~ M. J. Rose
We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves. —2 Corinthians 4:7
~ Gary Chapman
Things that have been foolishly done, in the hope of favorable Fortune, will never come to a good end.' And, as the same Seneca says, 'The more clear and the more shining that Fortune is, the more brittle and the sooner broken is she.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer