Top 63 Quotes About Luster

#1. Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#2. The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.

Samuel Johnson

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#3. They leaned towards him, like flowers to the sun, drinking in his luster. It was as Odysseus had said: he had light enough to make heroes of them all.

Madeline Miller

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#4. Life, in her experience, had a kind of velvet luster. You looked at yourself from one perspective and all you saw was weirdness. Move your head a little bit, though, and everything looked reasonably normal.

Jonathan Franzen

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#5. The light enkindled by human kindness and love can give human life a brilliance and luster that will never be extinguished.

Steve Centola

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#6. Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Cyril Connolly

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#7. This state lasted for six months, for six months I was truly happy, truly at home in this world and in myself before slowly it began to lose its luster, and once more the world moved out of my reach.

Karl Ove Knausgard

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#8. A shining star will never lose it's luster, because Christ causes it to shine!

Anita R. Sneed-Carter

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#9. A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way.

Marcelene Cox

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#10. The music as always had a dark sweet luster, but it was more than ever like an endless beginning-a theme ever building to a climax which would never come.

Anne Rice

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#11. It is perhaps true that that sort of sexual energy wanes over time - as the original impetus loses its luster. And then, I suppose, it's on to the next thing. But eros is eternal, like joy.

Micheline Aharonian Marcom

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#12. If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.

Christopher Meloni

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#13. Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.

Constance Hale

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#14. An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.

Livy

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#15. It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.

William Shenstone

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#16. I loved the flash of jewels and the luster of satin. In those days women dressed.

Elizabeth Enright

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#17. Nothing is as it seems. Black can appear white when the light is blinding but white loses all luster at the faintest sign of darkness.

Christopher Pike

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#18. There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child.

Max Von Sydow

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#19. Why allow all the old memories to have supremacy? Make new ones, memories of such luster and beauty that, should the old ones come back, they would be pallid and impotent in comparison.

Sherry Thomas

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#20. Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.

Honore De Balzac

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#21. Even the greatest feats of man lose their luster when one's head is filled with storm clouds.

Susan Dennard

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#22. Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that sink their roots into the earth.

Haruki Murakami

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#23. For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

Callie Khouri

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#24. Luster, bring me home.

Bruce Coville

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#25. It's easy to create something that has a lot of luster, but it's very hard to make something that has a lot of depth.

John Dykstra

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#26. I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#27. When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant.

Blaise Pascal

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#28. The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

Daniel Defoe

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#29. When you become too predictable you lose your brand's luster.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

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#30. Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

Lord Chesterfield

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#31. As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

Thomas Guthrie

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#32. A few years after 'Melrose Place,' when the luster of 'Melrose Place' wore off and what was left was just the stink, and I was just doing bad TV movies, that was a personal low point. I felt I needed to stop doing those, and I did.

Grant Show

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#33. Though [Jesus'] words were profound, they were plain. His words were weighty, yet they shone with a luster and simplicity of statement that staggered His enemies.

Billy Graham

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#34. The April night on which Sammy felt most aware of the luster of his existence - the moment when, for the first time in his life, he was fully conscious of his own happiness - was a night that he would never discuss with anyone at all.

Michael Chabon

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#35. Love is when Looking at a glance at you
I found laughter in my eyes, Thoughts turns into jewels Where luster of your aura dwells

Seema Gupta

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#36. Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

William Penn

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#37. How thankful I am, how thankful we all must be, for the women in our lives. God bless them. May His great love distill upon them and crown them with luster and beauty, grace and faith.

Gordon B. Hinckley

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#38. There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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#39. It's not through words but actions that I want to set the luster on my life.

Sophocles

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#40. The space elevator's not just another competitive technology, promoted by people who simply like the idea of diminishing the luster of the thrusters. It would open wide the doors to space.

Seth Shostak

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#41. A grub in filth is dirty, but it changes into a cicada and sips dew in the autumn breeze. Rotting plants have no luster, but they turn into foxfire and glow in the summer moonlight. So we know that purity emerges from impurity, and light is born from darkness.

Zicheng Hong

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#42. People adored Element 13's color and luster, which reminded them of the sparkle of gold and silver - a brand-new precious metal. In fact, aluminum became more precious than gold and silver in the 19th century because it was harder to obtain.

Sam Kean

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#43. Once upon a time the future was supposed to be brighter, shinier and more fun. When did that vision pass? When did the word 'new' lose it's luster? Now the past is supposed to hold the hopes we once confided to the future. We're directing attachments that used to go forward backward.

Ann Marlowe

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#44. The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Pope Paul VI

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#45. The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

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#46. I ne'er could any luster seeIn eyes that would not look on me.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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#47. He had sleepless eyes, his mouth a little swollen, the deeply tanned skin somehow burnished. Kestrel thought that she, too, must look like this: polished by desire, the way a river stone holds a luster from having been made so smooth.

Marie Rutkoski

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#48. Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.

Ellen G. White

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#49. When you're a kid, nine times out of 10, everthing is pure depending on how you grow up. Everything is new as a kid, so it's all amazing and wonderful. But as we get older, things start to lose their luster or possibly their relevance. Things don't mean as much as they did then. I know the feeling.

Corey Taylor

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#50. A person who prematurely believes that they comprehend the Tao sees only its external luster, and this is the beginning of delusion.

Lao-Tzu

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#51. Those great and glorious actions that dazzle our eyes with their luster are represented by statesmen as the result of great wisdomand excellent design; whereas, in truth, they are commonly the effects of the humors and passions.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#52. I have come to light the lamp of love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added luster.

Sathya Sai Baba

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#53. Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#54. There, about a dozen times during the day, the wind drives over the sky the swollen clouds, which water the earth copiously, after which the sun shines brightly, as if freshly bathed, and floods with a golden luster the rocks, the river, the trees, and the entire jungle.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

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#55. Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase

Charles Dickens

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#56. Almsgiving above all else requires money, but even this shines with a brighter luster when the alms are given from our poverty. The widow who paid in the two mites was poorer than any human, but she outdid them all.

Saint John Chrysostom

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#57. A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#58. She was never without dark glasses, she was always well groomed, there was a consequential good taste in the plainness of her clothes, the blues and grays and lack of luster that made her, herself, shine so.

Truman Capote

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#59. The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.

Dan Buettner

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#60. Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.

Jack Vance

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#61. It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, and wine and love have ever been allies.

Ovid

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#62. Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

Washington Irving

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#63. His own mortality held only an intellectual fascination for him, a dry luster; and, having no religion, he did not believe in ghosts.

Eleanor Catton

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