#light

I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh. ↗

— Rosamund Pike

#everything #first #get #heads #i

As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#had #higher #highest #i #light

Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#come #comedies #damaged #doing #easily

Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#because #buildings #care #country #easily

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here. ↗

— Henry Vaughan

#gone #here #i #into #light

I get the first flight out from anywhere I am because I have to come home to my kids. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#anywhere #because #come #first #flight

The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts. ↗

— Anthony Price

#devil #gained #had #hell #himself

Men seem to think that page 3 girls are only interested in money. Money doesn't impress me at all. Not in the slightest. ↗

— Katie Price

#interested #me #men #money #only

[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the truth." "No, they do not. They are afraid, that is all. And they must remain on earth until they come to the way of leaving it." "And how do they leave? How is the ascent made? Must one learn virtue?" Here she laughs. "You have read too much, and learned too little. Virtue is a road, not a destination. Man cannot be virtuous. Understanding is the goal. When that is achieved, the soul can take wing. ↗

— Iain Pears

#enlightenment #fear #mankind #philosophy #soul

Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#causes #easily #just #lightly #move