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Letter "L" » lights
«True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.»
«The teacher is like the candle, which lights others in consuming itself»
Author: Italian Proverb
| About:
Education,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
candle, consuming, lights, The Teacher
«The people who fear humor - and there are many -are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Fear,
Humor
| Keywords:
lights, received, suggest, suspicious, unexpected, unforeseen
«They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
bothering, declaim, declaimed, declaiming, declaims, flame, lights, passions, philosophy, The Passions, torch, torches
«The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.»
Author: Muhammad Ali
(Activist, Boxer)
| Keywords:
gym, gyms, lights, lines, Long line, on the road, witnesses
«Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.»
«The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning further than the author himself can see or perceive.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
arrange, dictates, lights, medium, open to, perceive, radiate, radiated, radiates, radiating, role, The Author, transcend, unfathomable
«The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
ages, Age of Man, ago, centuries, died, extinguished, extinguishes, extinguishing, lights, personalities, reaches
«The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
curiosities, curiosity, evil, hunger, hungered, hungering, hungers, lights, Mosquitoes, pain, People Like Us, reason, shines, shine at, Shining Light, Shining Through, sillier, silliest, silly, sun, suns, The Sun, This Is, warms, warm up, why
«The little flickering part of his brain that was still sparking coherent thought through the fog of mind-numbing terror that filled Colon's head was telling him that he was so far out of his depth that the fish had lights on their noses»
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