Bright Quotes - page 4

I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day.... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud. (Glenn Gould)
Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But look'd too near have neither heat nor light. View quote
John Webster
What comfort there is in a cheerful spirit! how the heart leaps up to meet a sunshiny face, a merry tongue, an even temper, and a heart which either naturally, or, what is better, from conscientious principle, has learned to take all things on their bright side, believing that the Giver of life being all-perfect Love, the best offering we can make to Him is to enjoy to the full what He sends of good, and bear what He allows of evil! View quote
Dinah Craik
No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes. View quote
Erasmus Darwin
The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds. View quote
Amy Tan
Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss. View quote
Ouida
There is no heaven of glory bright, and no hell where sinners roast. Here and now is our day of torment! Here and now is our day of joy! Here and now is our opportunity! Choose ye this day, this hour, for no redeemer liveth! View quote
Anton LaVey
Just like people, stars can be important without being terribly bright. View quote
Phil Plait
The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. View quote
Matthew Arnold
When all the dark clouds roll away And the sun begins to shine I see my freedom from across the way And it comes right in on time Well it shines so bright and it gives so much light And it comes from the sky above Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me And lights my life with love. (Van Morrison)
From the dark end of the street To the bright side of the road We'll be lovers once again on the Bright side of the road. View quote
Van Morrison
What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine. View quote
Felicia Hemans
When I am dead and over me bright April Shakes out her rain-drenched hair, Tho' you should lean above me broken-hearted, I shall not care. I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful When rain bends down the bough, And I shall be more silent and cold-hearted Than you are now. View quote
Sara Teasdale
I try to catch at many a tune Like petals of light fallen from the moon, Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,But they float away - for who can hold Youth, or perfume or the moon's gold? View quote
Sara Teasdale
The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering. View quote
Oscar Wilde
It's a purging of sorts. Like, when you're all done doing your laundry and it's fresh and bright, but washing the clothes, you wouldn't want to get in while it's spinning around. View quote
Maynard James Keenan
A large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are fundamentally different from the common run of man, unique and in certain crucial ways superior, more as it were central, meaningful-what else could explain the fact that they themselves have been at the exact center of all they've experienced for the whole 20 years of their conscious lives?-and that they can and will make a difference in their chosen field simply by the fact of their unique and central presence to it... View quote
David Foster Wallace
Who sings of all of Love's eternity Who shines so bright In all the songs of Love's unending spells? Holy lightning strikes all that's evil Teaching us to love for goodness sake. Hear the music of Love Eternal Teaching us to reach for goodness sake. View quote
Jon Anderson
In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Take thy self-denials gaily and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things and bright alike, like the sunshine of the Almighty. (James Freeman Clarke)
The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule. View quote
Olaf Stapledon
Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing. View quote
Prudentius
They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old. View quote
A. E. Housman
Nobody ever left the presidency with less regret, less disappointment, fewer heart burnings, or any general content with the result of his term (in his own heart, I mean) than I do. Full of difficulty and trouble at first, I now find myself on smooth waters and under bright skies. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes