"I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity"

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Opportunity Quotes #Giving Quotes #Sunlight Quotes

“Thou art my life, my love, my heart, The very eyes of me: And hast command of every part To live and die for thee.”

Source : 'To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything'
“I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“A negative is never finished.”

Source : Sigmar Polke, Paul Schimmel, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.), Site Santa Fe (Gallery), Corcoran Gallery of Art (1995). “Sigmar Polke: photoworks, when pictures vanish”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.”

Source : Tobias Smollett (1806). “Life of Smollett, by R. Anderson. Roderick Random”, p.163
“Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical kind, of such portions of the numerical or quantitative results of observation as remain outstanding and unaccounted for, after subducting and allowing for all that would result from the strict application of known principles.”

Source : Outlines of Astronomy (p. 548)
“The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.”
“Time again for the waltz of smiles. Amazing how you sometimes make resolutions, tell yourself everything will be a certain way from now on, and then all it takes is a tiny movement of the lips to shatter your confidence in a certainty that seemed eternal.”
“It's not the destination, It's the glory of the ride.”

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