#light

I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country. ↗

— Carre Otis

#alone #breaks #country #delight #family

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning. ↗

— James Otis

#dear #eternity #flash #god #god almighty

Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls. ↗

— Rudolf Otto

#bear #become #carved #dim #eyes

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness. ↗

— Al Pacino

#cope #first #having #i #i have learned

When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it. ↗

— Al Pacino

#actor #all day #am #better #better off

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all. ↗

— Joy Page

#dark #desire #evil #good #good and evil

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#esteem #lightly #obtain #too #which

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#being #burning #came #declared #devotion

Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the notion that we can't laugh about religion in America. ↗

— Trey Parker

#america #buy #call #i #know

Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#aspect #blue #blue sky #breath #clouds