Bright Quotes

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. (Leonard Bernstein)
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. View quote
E. B. White
I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression. View quote
Margaret Fuller
...there must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientist, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. View quote
Ralph Ellison
All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest. View quote
Thomas Moore
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. View quote
William Wordsworth
When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, theres a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it. View quote
Tupac Shakur
To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night ~ brothers who see now they are truly brothers. View quote
Archibald MacLeish
Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought. (Theognis of Megara)
The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands. View quote
Pierre Loti
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward and the hand may be a little child's. View quote
George Eliot
You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end. View quote
Karel Čapek
Bright reds - scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry - are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone. View quote
Christian Dior
Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well To bear too tender, or too firm a heart To act a lover's or a Roman's part Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think, or bravely die. View quote
Alexander Pope
It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm. View quote
Samuel Johnson
You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one. View quote
Dashiell Hammett
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright. View quote
Ben Jonson
What precious drops are those Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew. (John Dryden)
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well oiled in the closet, but unused. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. View quote
George Orwell
Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed. View quote
W. C. Handy
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness. View quote
Helen Keller