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Quotes About Bright

The musical era depicted in 'Round and Round' may not be pop's brightest moment, but rather than abandon its ideas, Ariel Pink reclaims them for himself and holds on tight.
~ Anthony Fantano
Long may our land be brightWith freedom's holy light;Protect us by thy might,Great God, our King!
~ Samuel Francis Smith
You are trapped in that bright moment where you learned your doom
~ Samuel R. Delany
Your time is too valuable, your destiny is too great, and your future is too bright to waste a single moment. Be a now person.
~ Joel Osteen
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
Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.
~ Ann Patchett
I think it must have been my mothers plan to rupture this bright surface, to sail beneath into very blackness, but here she was, wherever my eyes fell, and behind my eyes, whole and in fragments, a thousand images of one gesture, never dispelled but rising always, inevitably, like a drowned woman.
~ Marilynne Robinson
As a very young man, Frank Gresham found the life to which he was thus introduced agreeable enough. He consoled himself as best he might for the blue looks with which he was greeted by his own party, and took his revenge by consorting more thoroughly than ever with his political adversaries. Foolishly, like a foolish moth, he flew to the bright light, and, like the moths, of course he burnt his wings.
~ Anthony Trollope
She was made to sparkle, to be bright with outside garniture, — to shine and glitter, and be rich in apparel. The only doubt might be whether paste diamonds might not better suit her character.
~ Anthony Trollope
While munching on my afternoon snack—a piece of bread smeared with chicken fat—I joyfully looked into the bright parlor.
~ Sholem Aleichem
Looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.
~ Jenny Han
All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.
~ John Piper
There has been a wonderful alteration in my mind, in respect to the doctrine of God's sovereignty.… The doctrine has very often appeared exceeding pleasant, bright and sweet. Absolute sovereignty is what I love to ascribe to God. JONATHAN EDWARDS
~ John Piper
I suddenly realised that the devout Russian people no longer needed priests to pray them into heaven. On earth they were building a kingdom more bright than any heaven had to offer, and for which it was a glory to die….
~ John Reed
Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.
~ John Ruskin
Great cutting edge, indifferent to tissue Great stamping mass, indifferent to the cry of crushed bones, Grant us your hardness: We would be as prompt to suffer As you to inflict our suffering! Light flashes out from your whirling blades Heads bow to the earth before your harvesting: Heads of grain, heads of men and women. Grant us your hardness and bright surface. Be with us in the hour of our processing. - Hymn to Steel: for 5 million human voices
~ John Wain
But before William Stoner the future lay bright and certain and unchanging. He saw it, not as a flux of event and change and potentiality, but as a territory ahead that awaited his exploration.
~ John Williams
Maddie took the top of her egg off. The hot bright yolk was like summer sun breaking through cloud. The first daffodil in the snow. A gold sovereign wrapped in a white silk handkerchief. She dipped her spoon in it and licked it.
~ Elizabeth Wein
Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.
~ Ellen Kushner
The future is bright/colourful. Moreover, it's at your fingertips. But mind you, the choice/decision you make daily surely determines how bright/colourful your own future will become. Therefore, you've got to be mindful of your daily choices/decisions.
~ Emeasoba George
His smile was so bright as he stood in my doorstep that I zoomed in for a closeup on his pupils. I couldn't take my eyes off him. I think I heard a spirit call my name.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
May the memory of this moment, here, the glowing impression of the two of us facing each other in this warm, bright place, drinking lovely hot tea, help save him, even a little bit.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
here is the testimony of faith: darkness is not dark to God; the night is as bright as the day.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
On that bright May morning, with the lilacs budding and the kids off to school, Tom Markham approached his wife with the best of intentions.
~ Barbara Delinsky