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She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.


Adlai E. Stevenson

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She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
ADLAI STEVENSON I'm looking for someone who will light candles, not just curse the darkness.
JOSHUA HARRIS Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
CHINESE PROVERB Better to light a candle, than to curse the darkness.
UNKNOWN Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness
CHINESE PROVERBS Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
JOE E. LEWIS It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
CHINESE PROVERB It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
UNKNOWN Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
TERRY PRATCHETT It is better to light 1 candle than to curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
TERRY PRATCHETT Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness
TERRY PRATCHETT Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Ste...
MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
CONFUCIUS It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT What would be the significance of the candlelight, if there were no darkness? What would be the powe...
C. JOYBELL C. Remember, it is better to light one little candle than to curse the darkness.
FRANK GORSHIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness!
Eleanore Roosevelt
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When you embrace the things you do not understand, you understand what is embraced
JOHN M SHEEHAN You cannot defeat darkness by running from it, nor can you conquer your inner demons by hiding them ...
SETH ADAM SMITH Glow wherever you go and let the light of God reflect in the world around you. You carry the light o...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR It's better to light a candle then to curse the darkness.
DR. CARL SAGAN A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after...
THOMAS HARDY A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after...
CORRA MAY HARRIS Technically, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' was a kids' show, but adults watched almost religio...
TOM SHALES Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by t...
PETER BENENSON It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA when you fall into darkness do not spend all your energy and light rather than to remain in darkness...
KAMARAN IHSAN SALIH Darkness is nothing
but an opportunity
to spread light
JACKIE VIRAMONTEZ Life isn't just about darkness or light, rather it's about finding light within the darkness.
LANDON PARHAM They shed a rather unpleasant glow that didn't so much illuminate, as outline the darkness.
TERRY PRATCHETT Remember that light becomes evident in darkness. We do not create light by avoiding those who are ca...
C. JOYBELL C. I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificen...
JACK LONDON Don’t criticize or curse at darkness; be wise and never forget to light a candle.
DEBASISH MRIDHA She remembered love, though, and a feeling of warmth. It was like remembering light, or the glow tha...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH She learned to rejoice in the chaos, for without the darkness she would be blind to the light.
LAUREN VALENCIA We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY he turns to the sunlight,
And lifts her face up,
She searches for the light,
The ligh...
ASHISH BHARDWAJ Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, alwa...
KATE DICAMILLO Even before I could vote, I was involved in the political arena. My father was an admirer of Adlai S...
GEORGE TAKEI For it was the light, that was flowing in her veins but not blood. Every time she was wounded, she k...
AKSHAY VASU It’s so dark - as if all the lights are just there to make the other places seem darker.
MARGARET MAHY I love the way you lit candles, with the insistence that I never look, just so I can open my eyes an...
R. Y.S. PEREZ Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they neve...
COURTNEY M. PRIVETT Always surround yourself with friends that have plenty of light in them. That way, you will always h...
SUZY KASSEM A light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never overcome it.
JOHN THE EVANGELIST I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent...
JACK LONDON ... and in that part of the world the darkness could go on and on forever, as though there would nev...
ANNA GODBERSEN For every item that carries the darkness of humanity there's one that holds the light. And that ligh...
C.M. RAYNE When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me...
GARY F EVANS... I watched her, waiting.
She smiled. Her lips curved up and the edges, and her chocolate eyes wa...
STEPHENIE MEYER In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the par...
DAVID PIETRUSZA Moonlight filtered in through the blinds illuminating their bedroom, but the bright glow couldn’t ...
J.E.B. SPREDEMANN Voodoo Girl
Her skin is white cloth,
and she's all sewn apart
and she has many colore...
TIM BURTON It’s not the light that’s attracting me, but the darkness that’s driving me on.
JULIEN TORMA Most of us, myself included, have forgotten what real darkness is like. We live in a world where lig...
JAKE HALPERN Twas said better to light a candle than curse the dark...
ROBERT MCCAMMON It's the beauty of light, don't you see, Sam? It reveals, but it also distracts and blinds. It's eve...
MICHAEL GRANT, LIGHT (GONE SERIES, #6) It is light that dismantles each moment, I had thought then. Light proves it one thing or another. D...
HELEN HUMPHREYS I turned on the flashlight; it cut a small circle of light from the darkness around me.
AZAR NAFISI В молчании — слово,
А свет лишь во тьме.
И жизнь по...
Урсула Ле Гуин Что за смех, что за радость, когда мир постоянно горит? �...
BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI Каким бы темным и страшным не казался тебе сейчас мир, �...
GOTHAM Грех не в темноте, а в нежелании света.
Цветаева М.И. Легче зажечь одну маленькую свечу, чем клясть темноту.
Конфуций অন্ধকারে চেরাগ জ্বালানো' আর 'অন্ধের সা...
SHOBUJ TAPOSH Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.
JOHN MILTON It is hard to imagine the World Series being held in the sweet hazy sunshine of late September rathe...
GEORGE VECSEY She has heard a whisper say,/ A curse is on her if she stay/ To look down to Camelot.
ALFRED TENNYSON She has heard a whisper say,/ A curse is on her if she stay/ To look down to Camelot.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the da...
COLUM MCCANN Music made her feel as if she were holding a lamp that cast a halo of light around her, and while sh...
MARIE RUTKOSKI The door closed and darkness claimed the room.
R.J. LAWRENCE Darkness has the ability to cover up; light has the ability to uncover! Darkness is the enemy of tru...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
WASHINGTON IRVING Before she cut her birthday cake, she cast a wish, then blew the candles out from his eyes.
ANTHONY LICCIONE You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light fro...
JIMMY IOVINE The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, ligh...
LEO TOLSTOY When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a perso...
WILLIAM SANDERSON I’m still not good enough for a girl like her, but she’s back in my life and she needs someone t...
KATIE MCGARRY My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was ...
HELEN KELLER I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
HELEN KELLER I would rather walk alone in the light than with many in the dark doom.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Darkness, real darkness, was more than just a lack of light.
KAMI GARCIA I never saw her again. But even now, as an old man, I remember her as clearly as if she were standin...
MARIE LU Let every mother realize that she has no greater blessing than the children who have come to her as ...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY embrace the light and glow & look for the stars in the darkness when it falls upon u only then u kno...
MOHAMED SALAH She was a young thing, a child really, full of hope and light, who’s only friends were the shadows...
LEXIE SYRAH you left
and i wanted you still
yet i deserved someone
who was willing to stay
RUPI KAUR Empathic people are not weak but have an understanding of one main and important emotion.Empathy is ...
GARY F EVANS... Thy dark eyes beckon me into the darkest nether world of dark galaxies and darker supernovas. Foreve...
AVIJEET DAS When there's darkness on earth, be a light in the world.
JEANETTE CORON Just as the morning light sweeps away the night, the darkness within me began to be chased away by a...
ANASAZI FOUNDATION A man who refuses light will remain in the darkness even by the side of light!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN It isn’t always true that a critical end justifies desperate means.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH While she was light and sunshine, he was nothing but clouds and darkness.
VICTORIA MICHAELS

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ADLAI STEVENSON We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our ars...
ADLAI STEVENSON Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech...
ADLAI STEVENSON The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.
ADLAI STEVENSON We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.
ADLAI STEVENSON In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI STEVENSON The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff.
ADLAI STEVENSON Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.
ADLAI STEVENSON A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.
ADLAI STEVENSON Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to ...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. Th...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. Th...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe a...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. It is often easier to fight for one's principles that to live up to them.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR.