Quotes About Beacons

#1. In a world where even the moon had been traveled, the floor of the Atlantic remained uncharted wilderness, its shipwrecks beacons for men compelled to look.

Robert Kurson

#2. Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they never realize they are a form of light at all.

Courtney M. Privett

#3. Robes, dresses, frocks. They hung in endless rows, in hundreds, one beside the other all around the room - gleaming brocade, fluffy clouds of tulle and swansdown, flowery silk, night-black velvet with glittering spangles everywhere like small, many-coloured blinker beacons.

Tove Jansson

#4. Nar," a gravely voice answered. "We was told exactly where the beacons were placed, wasn't we? This section's clean. Sentry's all we have to worry about. If you don' see him, then move in.

J.K. Rowling

#5. Books are beacons that shine light into our thoughts.
-Redmond Herring 2015

Redmond Herring

#6. Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

Thomas Huxley

#7. Jesus is giving you such an opportunity to be holy, holier than all the saints that have ever been, because the world is in such need of shining lives, beacons to see by.

Mother Angelica

#8. Everyone has beacons. Lights that guide them home.

Kimberly McCreight

#9. My dream is for my flowers to act as beacons and rallying points across the planet - bringing people together on a global scale and through my art start a global conversation.

Ana Tzarev

#10. Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us laugh is a mystery - an involuntary response.

Dennis Miller

#11. If we have a very strong commitment, so that we can trust ourselves and be beacons of trust for others no matter what the circumstance, then we're protected from suffering the consequences of many actions. We can be protected from that pain.

Sharon Salzberg

#12. Each of us, Leonard Read said, must become candles of liberty in the darkness of collectivist ideas. The brighter we each shine through our understanding and ability to articulate the meaning of freedom, the more we will be beacons that can attract others.

Richard Ebeling

#13. We are beacons, scattered across this earth and distant from each other. Because if all light gathered in the same corner, the rest of the world would remain dark.

Emily Maroutian

#14. Will searching for distant messages work? Is there intelligent life out there? The SETI effort is worth continuing, but our common-sense beacons approach seems more likely to answer those questions.

Gregory Benford

#15. The mobile phone, the fax, emails. Call me old fashioned, but what's wrong with a chain of beacons?

Harry Hill

#16. Human Angels are beacons that simply being who they are, illuminate the darkness, to help those who are still on the path to stay the course.

Human Angels

#17. The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read no other; inquiry is directed to each of his doctrines; it is soon discovered what is sound and what is false; the sound become maxims, and the false beacons.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#18. The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked.

Thomas Hartwell Horne

#19. Startups are the engines of exponential growth, manifesting the power of innovation. Several big companies today are startups of yesterday. They were born with a spirit of enterprise and adventure kept alive due to hardwork and perseverance and today have become shining beacons of innovation.

Narendra Modi

#20. Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.

John Muir

#21. Russia will become beacons of hope for the world.

Edgar Cayce

#22. Try leaving a friendly trail of little sparks of gratitude on your daily trips. You will be surprised how they will set small flames of friendship that will be rose beacons on your next visit.

Dale Carnegie

#23. Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.

Virginia Woolf

#24. Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.

Charlie Brooker

#25. South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.

Desmond Tutu

#26. A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.

Jacques Maritain

#27. By the time it came to the 90s, the late 90s, being a businessman was the beacon to uphold. We've been having the concept of the best rapper equals the best businessman ...

M.I.A.

#28. The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom.

Robert Browning

#29. What if desire wasn't an urge to be tamed, but a beacon of truth to be followed?

Danielle LaPorte

#30. I'm the beacon of hope, and I have mental powers you never dreamed of. Now be quiet.

David Klass