Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.
Alexander Maclaren
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me... GARY F EVANS... It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which... JUNICHIRO TANIZAKI It’s not the light that’s attracting me, but the darkness that’s driving me on. JULIEN TORMA An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence. LETITIA LANDON An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON The dance between darkness and light will always remain— the stars and the moon will always need t... C. JOYBELL C. Our findings suggest that unseen dark matter - which emits no light but has mass - has had a major e... DUNCAN FARRAH We can’t see the true characters of those who lurk in the shade until they are exposed to the ligh... NANETTE L. AVERY A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and... JULIAN GREEN Light and dark ain't supposed to mix. They're like broccoli and chocolate - just nasty when you put ... H.M. WARD A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud... CHARLES DICKENS Light shines upon us inspiration, and as it falls quietly over us,
our thoughts find a voice, dark, ... JILL ANZINGER Peace does not walk up to our doorsteps and press the calling bell! We have to go out there and sear... AVIJEET DAS A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky... JULIEN GREEN True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has... MILAN KUNDERA True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has... MILAN KUNDERA A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments... CHARLES SPURGEON Said the man to the sun, "How I wish you could shine your light on every day of my life!" Said ... MARIE LU We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark, but the real tragedy of life is when men ar... SHERRILYN KENYON Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, ... CHARLES DE LINT For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; b... CLAUDE MONET She was a young thing, a child really, full of hope and light, who’s only friends were the shadows... LEXIE SYRAH But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most im... C.G. JUNG No. You see, the night works differently here than in the human realm,’ he continues. ‘Duwyn is ... GISELLE SIMLETT I watched the contrast of dark and light form shadows in solidarity. Neither projects a shadow in so... IAN IJH HOWELL Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the... ANNA LOUISE STRONG But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection th... JONATHAN EDWARDS To give power to that which has no bearing on one's life simply means one is not living their true l... PEPRAH BOASIAKO In the depth a light will grow, A silver shine no shadows know, Like wings unfolding in t... ROBERT FANNEY I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we... LORILIAI BIERNACKI I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we... LORILIAI BIERNACKI All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs... STEPHEN KING A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark exce... LEONARDO DA VINCI I preach darkness. I don't inspire hope—only shadows. It's up to you to find the light in my words... CHARLES LEE For a long time the psychology was to buy on the dips and I think the psychology has changed, and it... ROBERT ARMKNECHT Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn ... WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man h... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows. PAULO COELHO no light no dark no you no me know light know dark know you know me KAMI GARCIA My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Thy dark eyes beckon me into the darkest nether world of dark galaxies and darker supernovas. Foreve... AVIJEET DAS Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This i... LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the li... MARIE DE SEVIGNE There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the ligh... MARIE DE SEVIGNE There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the lig... MARIE DE SEVIGNE All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: no... C.S. LEWIS The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one. E. M. CIORAN The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one. EMIL M. CIORAN The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one. EMILE M. CIORAN The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live-moreover, the only one. EMIL M. CIORAN Who doesn't have a dark place somewhere inside him that comes out sometimes when he's looking in a m... MACDONALD HARRIS He who hides himself amongst the shadows deserves to live inside the dark shadows! Meet with the lig... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. JOHN RUSKIN Life certainly have no guarantees just a whole lotta processed excrement that come and go, and in so... FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ...and yet no endless sorrow. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place ... MILAN KUNDERA When you hear a boy ask why the sun comes and goes, tell him because in this life there is no light ... MAGO DE OZ Light isn't always buoyant and shadows aren't always despair; yet both, I believe, are limitless in ... CAROLYN RIKER If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as... C.S. LEWIS If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as... C. S. LEWIS Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, withou... MAX MULLER And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his ... HERMANN HESSE Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people have to walk out of the shadows. MARK HELLINGER Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows. ALBERT MALTZ Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light--every
eye looking on finds its own. EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated ... ISAAC ASIMOV Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so o... STEVEN ERIKSON Imagine your life is a big canvas. Picture it in your mind and think about the beginnning of your pa... STEPHEN BIRO Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to th... GEORGE ELIOT In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human l... CHARLES DICKENS Every moment of light and dark is a miracle. WALT WHITMAN There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. CHARLES DICKENS Ascension If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no mea... C. S. LEWIS And so art is everywhere, since artifice is at the very heart of reality. And so art is dead, not on... JEAN BAUDRILLARD Each of us channel through the rest of us, which is true on every plane of being and in every field ... STEPHEN RICHARDS No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away DAVID MATTHEW CLICK Ever so closely do we walk with our enemy... but in the heat of battle, how does one determine the o... WILSON J. WASHINGTON III Ten years of shadows, but no longer. Light up the darkness, Majesty. SARAH J. MAAS Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow... MARY STEWART It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and ent... JOHN E. HINES He thought. He wrote. He read. He ran and drank milk and concrete. He was cut into two. He bled. He ... PATRICK DOWNES Life is itself but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. All things... THOMAS BROWNE SR. Here is a universal law: that when it comes to negative and positive, you will always thrive more po... C. JOYBELL C. Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on th... URSULA K. LE GUIN Well, Son, I tell you, life for me aint been no crystal stair. Its been hard and bare and rough p... LANGSTON HUGHES The light from the sun breaks through space, bathing our planet as it encircles the sun with life-gi... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark. PINK FLOYD For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear... TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS The door closed and darkness claimed the room. R.J. LAWRENCE Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, b... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, b... SOREN KIERKEGAARD I hid myself behind Baba. It was like being in the shadow. Shadows are empty places in things. The c... BILAL TANWEER If I've learned anything in my life, it's that there is no darkness so absolute that it cannot be di... KERRIGAN BYRNE Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that ... JOHN HENRY NEWMAN There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the... VICTOR HUGO The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth CLARENCE DARROW Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN
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Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,
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Yet holds the eel of science by the tale. ALEXANDER POPE Reason, however able, cool at best,
Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,
Stays til... ALEXANDER POPE Say first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know? ALEXANDER POPE We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. ALEXANDER COMFORT My two favorite movies are 'Coming to America' and 'Boomerang'. SHAUN ALEXANDER A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is... ALEXANDER POPE Lely on animated canvas stole
The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul. ALEXANDER POPE He best can paint them who shall feel them most. ALEXANDER POPE Wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ALEXANDER POPE If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd... ALEXANDER POPE But if
We have such another victory, we are undone. ALEXANDER POPE The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice." ALEXANDER POPE Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost? ALEXANDER POPE Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. ALEXANDER POPE What riches give us let us then inquire:
Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and ... ALEXANDER POPE Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place. ALEXANDER POPE One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit. ALEXANDER POPE When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, wh... JAIMIE ALEXANDER Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon
the rights of others. ALEXANDER POPE Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will,
And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. ALEXANDER POPE But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor. ALEXANDER POPE Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. ALEXANDER POPE Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live. ALEXANDER HERZEN Most women have no characters at all. ALEXANDER POPE Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fil... ALEXANDER POPE All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know t... ALEXANDER TROCCHI Most authors steal their works, or buy. ALEXANDER POPE Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own? ALEXANDER POPE True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T... ALEXANDER POPE Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. ALEXANDER POPE Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives. ALEXANDER HAMILTON The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit. ALEXANDER HAMILTON The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own ... ALEXANDER POPE I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a... ALEXANDER POPE They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. ALEXANDER POPE