Quotes About Illuminations

#1. Might we begin then to transform our passing illuminations into abiding light?

Huston Smith

#2. In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.

Simon Schama

#3. The garden was burning, the air sparked with specks of flame as they say it will be in the World-to-Come when we walk beside the angels and have no fear of their illuminations or of their might.

Alice Hoffman

#4. Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so illuminated that I'm able to see where to go. I write between these illuminations.

Kate Braverman

#5. Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations.

John Piper

#6. We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining cloud is one of the most majestic of all secondary lights.

Alice Meynell

#7. I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool illuminations, I go bonkers!

Johnny Vegas

#8. The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

Jacob Bronowski

#9. It will be celebrated ... with pomp and parade ... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.

John Adams

#10. I sincerely believe that there is a time in life for drifting. There is a time for sitting back and getting in touch with yourself. Some of our most interesting illuminations and ideas will come when we take time to reflect, time to kick back and cruise awhile.

Rudolfo Anaya

#11. Regrets are illuminations come too late.

Joseph Campbell

#12. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

Virginia Woolf

#13. The word 'aloha,' in foreign use, has taken the place of every English equivalent. It is a greeting, a farewell, thanks, love, goodwill. Aloha looks at you from tidies and illuminations; it meets you on the roads and at house-doors. It is conveyed to you in letters: the air is full of it.

Isabella Bird

#14. During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination.

Joshua Foer

#15. The world is full of haters; stand for what you believe in and believe in what you stand for".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#16. Don't let anyone else take the measure of your worth and capabilities.
Always stand proud in who you are!

Margaret Spellings

#17. Doubt is a creature within the air.
It grows when someone hesitates.

Toba Beta

#18. I can take anyone down at anytime; they can't take me down; no one can ride or turn me; I can control anyone.

Dan Gable

#19. That hope is little more than the premonition of regret. This is the first lesson of history.

R. Scott Bakker

#20. Why can't I talk to her?"
"Because you're not a handsome young man."
"Well, neither is he!

Chris D'Lacey