Reading By Candlelight Quotes

#1. Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen.

Phil Cooke

#2. What would ever become of Tilly-Valley's religion in that world, with headlights flashing along cemented highways, and all existence dominated by electricity? What would become of old women reading by candlelight? What would become of his own life-illusion, his secret 'mythology,' in such a world?

John Cowper Powys

#3. From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. I hope we find a cure for every major disease, because I'm tired of walking 5K. I'm pretty sure I don't have to sweat for cancer. I'll write a check.

Daniel Tosh

#5. Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.

Ambrose Bierce

#6. ...atheism leaves no room for excuses...

Travis Culliton

#7. I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night.

Rachel Boston

#8. Love seeks out that desperate, lonely, frightened place inside each of us and coaxes it out into the daylight, so that it can eviscerate it in the burning heat of the sun.

Cassondra Windwalker

#9. Reading books by candlelight will make you blind."
"I need the candlelight to see the words, ser."
"Do you want a clout in the ear?

George R R Martin

#10. There are so many women throughout the world who appreciate beautiful design and have the budget to buy designer fashion but sometimes have a hard time finding the things that they really want or that suit their lifestyle or their culture or whatever it may be.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

#11. The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence, and we only interrupted each other's reading to share a casual delight.

Keith Donohue

#12. Politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

Barbara Walters

#13. Even if our entire audiovisual legacy were to be lost in a power cut, we would still be able to read books in the light from the sun, or in the evening by a candlelight.

Jean-Claude Carriere

#14. Brushing my little teeth every morning of my childhood, I stood on my tippy toes, leaned over the sink and said to myself that when I am a big girl I will see from this high.
Today I did the same thing, but the view from my toes was the same from flat feet.
I'm a big girl now.

Audrey Regan

#15. Alive enough to have strength to die

Thomas Hardy

#16. You have to prioritize what you stress about when you have a child.

Adele

#17. There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.

Adyashanti

#18. This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.

Mickey Mantle

#19. They had perfected their team nagging to a level where they no longer had to confer and felt they would be wasting their talents if they only admonished their own children.

Thomm Quackenbush