First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.
~By William Bartram ~
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
~By e. e. cummings ~
The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.
~By Robert Scheer ~
I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it'll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by.
~By Christiane Amanpour ~
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
~By Amos Bronson Alcott ~
There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.
~By Bruce Scheneier ~
This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
~By Adam Weishaupt ~
Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.
~By Allan Dwan ~
My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.
~By Harry Shearer ~
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Whatever happened to the tomboy I used to be, the slightly rebellious rocker?
~By Brenda Lee ~
When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness.
~By John Strachan ~
From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.
~By Thomas Campion ~
Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
~By Lord Byron ~
A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.
~By Thomas Francis Meagher ~
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
~By Brian Eno ~
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
~By Arlo Guthrie ~
A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
~By William Blake ~
I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.
~By Jackie DeShannon ~
I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.
~By Bryan Robson ~
Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
~By Daniel Drew ~
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
~By Arnold Palmer ~
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
~By William Blake ~
My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light.
~By Linda Hamilton ~
You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go.
~By Katie Couric ~
Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.
~By Richard Neal ~
Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.
~By Franz Schubert ~
The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.
~By Dave Eggers ~
No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.
~By James Beattie ~
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
~By Stendhal ~
I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighting the reliance this country has on the gulf coast for our energy resources.
~By Steve Buyer ~
And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon.
~By Kim Dae Jung ~
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.
~By Mary Astell ~
The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio.
~By Beth Orton ~
It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
~By Eddie Vedder ~
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
~By Thomas Paine ~
We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
~By Dan Quayle ~
We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.
~By Sissela Bok ~
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
~By Samuel Butler ~
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
~By Robert Frost ~
Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
~By Harold Pinter ~
It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.
~By John E. Hines ~
Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way.
~By Paul Westerberg ~
In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.
~By Robert Welch ~
The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.
~By Ezra Cornell ~
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
~By Randall Jarrell ~
As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.
~By John Paul Jones ~
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
~By Victor Hugo ~
We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
~By Dietrich Bonhoeffer ~
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
~By William Styron ~
And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.
~By Fay Godwin ~
To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience.
~By Phil Lesh ~
I am absolutely delighted to get back into football with Livingston.
~By Kenny Dalglish ~
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
~By Samuel Daniel ~
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
We're delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows.
~By Robert Iger ~
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.
~By Mary Antin ~
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
~By Hannah More ~
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
~By Corazon Aquino ~
The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.
~By Charles Eastman ~
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.
~By Sam Brownback ~
There's no twilight in the tropics. Night falls like a curtain.
~By Waldemar Young ~
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight.
~By Glenn Miller ~
Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.
~By Hermann Oberth ~
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
~By Henri Poincare ~
My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.
~By Gerald R. Ford ~
The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
~By Damon Hill ~
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
~By Helen Keller ~
Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.
~By Max Muller ~
They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.
~By Bainbridge Colby ~
I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
~By Bette Davis ~
We go by the lighthouse; paddle out. After we got out, we paddled way down to get the biggest peak.
~By George Downing ~
I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
~By Billy Connolly ~
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
~By Bill Griffith ~
I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
~By Fidel Castro ~
We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
~By Dwight L. Moody ~
Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament.
~By Sally Quinn ~
I live and love in God's peculiar light.
~By Michelangelo ~
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.
~By Morgan Brittany ~
So we do have our exits and our entrances and we are perhaps mere, but I think if one keep a certain joyousness in life which should be in playing, then good for one, but it's slightly more serious than that.
~By Janet Suzman ~
The perfect gadget would somehow allow me to fly. Isn't that what everybody wants? It would also cook a damn good microwave pizza. So while in flight you had something to eat - an in-flight meal. Where would I go? Well, nowadays, it would probably just take me to work a lot quicker.
~By John Krasinski ~
You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.
~By Marisa Tomei ~
Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.
~By George Eastman ~
I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.
~By Carter Burwell ~
Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.
~By Lucy Maud Montgomery ~
Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
~By Thomas Moore ~
I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.
~By Mark Hoppus ~
I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.
~By Gordon Lightfoot ~
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