Shines Quotes
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Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
satchel paige— New York Post (4 October 1959)
Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.
natalie portman
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— 1831Table Talk (published1835), entry for18 Dec.
Very luckily for you and me,the uncivilized sun mysteriously shines on "good" and "bad" alike. He is an artist.
e. e. cummings— "Foreword to an Exhibit: I" (1944)
Sometimes, when on the Alpine rose The golden sunset leaves its ray, So like a gem the flow'ret glows, We thither bend our headlong way; And though we find no treasure there, We bless the rose that shines so fair.
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, The Crystal-Hunters.
It was inevitable that as soon as we had enjoyed a few days of reasonable summer weather, the country would suffer an acute water shortage. It can rain for100 days, but if the sun shines on the 101st there will be hosepipe restrictions on the 102nd.
Auberon Alexander Waugh— Way of the World: The Forgotten Years: 1995-6 (1997)
The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
chinua achebe— Chapter 1 (p. 11)
I dream of you / And all the things you say / I wonder where you are nowI need you now / You've knocked me off my feetWe talk of going old / But you say "Please don'tLet me be the one / Who shines with you / In the morning / We don't know what to do"
Noel Gallagher— Slide Away
Thank you for the sun / The one that shines on everyone / Who feels love.
Noel Gallagher— Who Feels Love
He is one of those people to whom you must allow moods,—when their sun shines, dance,—and when their vapors rise, sit in the shadow.
harriet elizabeth prescott spofford— The Amber Gods (1863).
We may read many truths in the Bible, but we cannot know them savingly, till God by his Spirit shines upon our soul.
thomas watson— from The Lord's Prayer
It will be readily admitted that brown tints have never coursed beneath our skin; it will be discovered that yellow shines forth in our flesh, that red blazes, and that green, blue and violet dance upon it with untold charms, voluptuous and caressing.
Umberto Boccioni— As quoted in “Futurism”, ed. By Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 136
The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.
john buchan— "The Wise Years", The Moon Endureth (1912)
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— 18 December 1831.
Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive; having no opposite, there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. The all illuminating light shines and is beyond the movement of the opposites.
bruce lee— p. 23 (Striking Thoughts (2000))
It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.
alain-rené lesage— Book III, ch. 11. Compare: "The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts", Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas, in Sheridaniana.
In Christian ethics ... animals are seen as mere things. They can therefore be used for vivisection, hunting, coarsing, bull-fights and horse-races and can be whipped to death as they struggle along with their heavy carts of stone. Shame on such a morality that fails to recognise the eternal essence that exists in every living thing and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun.
Arthur Schopenhauer— On the Basis of Morality
The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— St. LII (Adonais (1821))
Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart Push in their tides.
dylan thomas— Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines, st. 1 (1934)
The higher the trail the steeper it grows Ten thousand tiers of dangerous cliffs The stone bridge is slippery with green moss Cloud after cloud keeps flying by Waterfalls hang like ribbons of silk The moon shines down on the bright pool I climb the highest peak once more To wait where the lone crane flies
— Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry by the t'ang zen poet han-shan (2005, 2011), tr. Wandering Poet, ISBN 978-0-6151-6006-1 ISBN 0615160069 LOC Number 2007937840
Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.
Wentworth Dillon— Wentworth Dillon, Essay on Translated Verse, line 216.
Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.
jonathan swift— Jonathan Swift, To Stella (1720)
Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth, And the brook cries like a child! Not a rainbow shines to cheer us; Ah! the sun comes never near us, And the heavens look dark and wild.
mary howitt— The Wet Summer. From the German.
Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, the Graces are four; Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face; She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.
— Epigram 5; translation by Jonathan Swift, cited from Henry Wellesley (ed.) Anthologia Polyglotta (London: John Murray, 1849) p. 47.
In the face of the sun are great thunderbolts hurled, And the storm - clouds have shut out its light ; But a Rainbow of Promise now shines on the world , And the universe thrills at the sight .
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in The Rainbow of Promise"
