Shining famous quotes
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No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions, most of these clowns don't read, can't write, and clearly can't add.
-- Carl Hiaasen -
There are times in life to grow, and there are times in life to shine. One can't grow and shine at the same time; it just doesn't work that way. Now you're growing. Tomorrow you'll shine.
-- Carol Plum-Ucci -
There are no insignificant relationships. Every experience that we have contains purpose and meaning. Each event, each person in our lives embodies an energetic fragment of our own psyche and soul. Our individual spiritual task is to recognize and integrate all of them into our awareness so that the greater pattern of our mission can shine forth in its full dimensions.
-- Caroline Myss -
There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.
-- Carroll Quigley -
We should be shining lamps, giving light to all around us.
-- Catherine McAuley -
Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware.
-- Charles Baxter -
Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.
-- Charles Churchill -
Close your eyes and look inside, A mirror shines within; To find where you are going, First see where you have been.
-- Charles Ghigna -
I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.
-- Charles Studd -
I think the honesty not only shines through in my work, but also my personal life. And I get in trouble for being honest. I'm extremely old-fashioned. I'm a nobleman. I'm chivalrous.
-- Charlie Sheen -
I'm very much about letting other people shine, because it makes us all shine brighter.
-- Chelsea Handler -
I am a shining star, and I surround myself with people who encourage my brightness.
-- Cheryl Richardson -
The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
-- Chinua Achebe -
However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again.
-- Chris Cleave -
In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it on the leather like I would a shoe wax. Then I spit-shine it and buff it with a cloth, and my shoes look great.
-- Chris Diamantopoulos -
Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready.
-- Chris Gardner -
Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.
-- Chris Hadfield -
Nathan McEuen's light is shining bright. A fine singer, guitarist and an excellent songwriter. There is hope on the horizon.
-- Chris Hillman -
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most aesthetically interesting? From Hollywood noirs to horror movies like The Shining [1980].
-- Christopher Bollen -
Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.
-- Claude Bernard -
The police are not entrusted with a mission which differentiates them from those they serve. Being unconcerned with ultimate purposes, they are inseparable from the persons and interests of their masters, and shine with their reflected glory.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss -
Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines.
-- Claude McKay -
In darkness God's truth shines most clear.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
Hillary Clinton's 506-page memoir has come out. So much of her personality shines through, that in the end, you, too, will want to sleep with an intern.
-- Craig Kilborn -
The important thing is to firmly fix our gaze on our own weaknesses, not run away from them, but to battle them head-on and establish a solid self that nothing can sway. Hardships forge and polish our lives, so that eventually they shine with brilliant fortune and benefit. If left in its raw, unpolished form, even the most magnificent gem will not sparkle. The same applies to our lives.
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
Masters of one art have mastered all because they have mastered themselves. With dominion over both mind and muscle, they demonstrate power, serenity, and spirit. They not only have talent for their sport, they have an expanded capacity for life. The experts shine in the competitive arena; the masters shine everywhere.
-- Dan Millman -
We'll let the sunshine in and shine on us, because today we're happy and tomorrow we'll be even happier.
-- Dan Quayle -
No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine.
-- Daniel Cormier -
A person has to show some spirit -- fate just about never shines on chickenshits.
-- Daniel Woodrell -
Cleveland's a great place when you're a kid. You hardly ever get sunburned, without the sun shining.
-- Darrell Issa -
Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same ol' dog's ***** every day.
-- Darrell Royal -
The social Web is incredibly good at shining bright lights into dark corners...
-- Dave Evans -
Everything you do right now ripples outward and affects everyone. Your posture can shine your heart or transmit anxiety. Your breath can radiate love or muddy the room in depression. Your glance can awaken joy. Your words can inspire freedom. Your every act can open hearts and minds.
-- David Deida -
I once drew a picture of Jack Nicholson in The Shining. But I put it away after a Feng Shui expert told me about the bad vibes
-- David James -
Let us to the Press Devoted Be, Its Light will Shine and Speak Us Free.
-- David Ruggles -
There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.
-- David Viscott -
The world is the same you never change it, as sure as the stars shine above. Well, you're nobody til somebody loves you, so find yourself somebody to love.
-- Dean Martin -
When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine, that's amore.
-- Dean Martin -
When you experience peace of soul, with each breath you are present to the fact that this is a divine moment, a moment to shine like you have never shone before, a moment to hold the whole world in your hands with a gentle thought and a kind heart.
-- Debbie Ford -
It is time to search out your uniqueness, applaud and acknowledge yourself, and let your own light shine.
-- Debbie Ford -
Remember, in our inmost being, we are all completely lovable because spirit is love. Beyond what anyone can make you think or feel about yourself, your unconditioned spirit stands, shining with a love nothing can tarnish.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Verily I say unto you all: Arise and shine forth, that thy light may be a standard for the nations.
-- Delbert L. Stapley -
Through the hollow globe, a ring of frayed rusty scrapiron, is it the sea that shines? Is it a road at the world's edge?
-- Denise Levertov -
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
-- Desmond Tutu -
Celebrate the best in people. Find the light that shines not on us, but within us, when we trust enough to let it out.
-- Dewitt Jones -
In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with.
-- Diablo Cody -
Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.
-- Diane Ravitch -
The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
-- Diogenes -
When I meet someone, I look at their eyes and their smile and seek out the good first - it's easy to find when you're looking for it. You let a person shine with their own light and try to connect it to yours. As soon as I say hello, I go right to that light and I don't care who you are! I know we're all pieces of the same thing - I go for that common light because I know it's in all of us.
-- Dolly Parton -
We as women should shine light on our accomplishments and not feel egotistical when we do. It's a way to let the world know that we as women can accomplish great things!
-- Dolores Huerta -
We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole.
-- Donald Hall -
Everyone else would climb a peak by looking for a path somewhere in the mountain. Nash would climb another mountain altogether and from that distant peak would shine a searchlight back onto the first peak.
-- Donald J. Newman -
The sun shines on everybody. Youve got to keep believing.
-- Dontrelle Willis -
The more mirror-minded you become, the more your home will reflect shining charm!
-- Dorothy Draper -
Here is just emptiness. There is no getting my ego out of the way, and all that stuff. There is just the seeing, shining in great brilliance and clarity.
-- Douglas Harding -
We are all slaves to the shining metal.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
Hopelessness may be the saddest word in our language. Despair is the enemy of our souls. It can paralyze us, halt our progress, and cause us to lose our way. But hope awakens us like a light shining in the darkness. We can endure all things when our hope is centered in one who will never fail us-our Savior, Jesus Christ, who is the light of the world.
-- Dwan J. Young -
God has called us to SHINE, just as much as Daniel was sent into Babylon to shine. Let no one say that he cannot shine because he has not so much influence as some others may have. What God wants YOU to do is to use the influence YOU have. Daniel probably did not have much influence down in Babylon at first, but God soon gave him more because he was FAITHFUL and used what he had.
-- Dwight L. Moody -
A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine.
-- Dwight L. Moody -
As a poet Maria Terrone lives, like the rest of us, in a world of questions marks-but what shines through them is the fierce light of the life force itself
-- Eamon Grennan -
You can’t encore the past. If I see a bright light shining out there, I want to go toward it.
-- Earl Scruggs -
Beyond the beauty of external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence. Whenever and wherever there is beauty, this inner essence shines through somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
In fact every belief is an obstacle. It does not even require your realization, since you are already who you are. But without realization, who you are does not shine forth into this world. It remains in the unmanifested which is, of course, your true home. You are then like an apparently poor person who does not know he has a bank account with $100 million in it and so his wealth remains an unexpressed potential
-- Eckhart Tolle -
When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
-- Ed Miliband -
Such phantom blossoms palely shining Over the lifeless boughs of Time.
-- Edgar Lee Masters -
When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine.
-- Edmund Waller -
Seeming devotion does but gild a knave, That's neither faithful, honest, just, nor brave; But where religion does with virtue join, It makes a hero like an angel shine.
-- Edmund Waller -
Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay -
When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.
-- Edward Cocker -
Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.
-- Edward T. Hall -
Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless force. The world was spread out around him to be seized and conquered. Realms of infinite truth burst open above him, inviting him to tread those shining coasts along which Newton dropped his plummet, and Herschel sailed,--a Columbus of the skies.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin -
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple -
Do not feed your ego and your problems, with your attention. ...Slowly, surely, the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be nothing but a thin ghost of its former self. You will be able to see right through it, to the divine presence that shines in each of us.
-- Eknath Easwaran -
I see the angel Moroni, standing atop the temple, as a shining symbol of [our] faith. I love Moroni, because in a degenerate society, he remained pure and true. He is my hero. He stood alone. I feel somehow he stands atop the temple today, beckoning us to have courage, to remember who we are and to be worthy to enter the holy temple, to 'arise and shine forth,' to stand above the worldly clamor and to, as Isaiah prophesied, 'Come to the mountain of the Lord'-the holy temple.
-- Elaine S. Dalton -
Clothing should be quieter than the woman so that her true beauty can shine through.
-- Elie Tahari -
...there's something in science like the shine of the Patronus Charm, driving back all sorts of darkness and madness...
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky -
This is one of theprimary mechanisms whereby, if a fool says the sun is shining, we do notcorrectly discard this as irrelevant nonevidence, but rather find ourselvesimpelled to say that it must be dark outside.
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky -
The way you keep your house, the way you organize your time, the care you take in your personal appearance, the things you spend your money on, all speak loudly about what you believe. The beauty of thy peace shines forth in an ordered life. A disordered life speaks loudly of disorder in the soul.
-- Elisabeth Elliot -
There is no such thing as a sphere for sex. Every man has a different sphere, in which he may or may not shine, and it is the same with every woman, and the same woman may have a different sphere at different times.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets
-- Elizabeth Chandler -
So I say, if you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining, radiant, and righteously shameless
-- Elizabeth Cunningham -
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
-- Elizabeth I -
God requires his people to shine as lights in the world. It is not merely the ministers who are required to do this, but every disciple of Christ. Their conversation should be heavenly.
-- Ellen G. White -
Just keep on shining that light. The rest will take care of itself.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
The stars shine as they always do. Same stars. Same sky. Only I am different.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
Because I've always been a runner I love to feel that my body is shining on the inside. I wear baggy clothes, so it's not as though I like showing it off. I just like to know I'm great on the inside.
-- Ellie Goulding -
Yes Leopold," Eleanor said in a low, mocking voice. "Do start to shine, please. I think I saw the rising, but I definitely missed the shining.
-- Eloisa James -
There is no death where the inner light shines, irradiating the fields of the within -- the beyond -- the unattainable attainment. You know where to find me.
-- Elsa Barker -
I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry. I cried because you wouldn't let me speak. I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine. I shone because I thought you loved me...
-- Emilie Autumn -
Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.
-- Emily Carr -
If that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine, I'm a break that birdie's neck.
-- Eminem -
Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.
-- Emma Lazarus
