#lights

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#art #bores #flights #greatest #i

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#dark #god #high #highest #how

We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#birds #bubbles #comes #country #delicate

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#course #delights #hatred #his #kills

Colored lights blink on and off, racing across the green boughs. Their reflections dance across exquisite glass globes and splinter into shards against tinsel thread and garlands of metallic filaments that disappear underneath the other ornaments and finery. Shadows follow, joyful, laughing sprites. The tree is rich with potential wonder. All it needs is a glance from you to come alive. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#holiday #lights #tree #winter #inspirational

Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#doing #flights #good #keep #maintenance

Storytelling is what lights my fire. ↗

— Hope Davis

#lights #storytelling

We have lost one shuttle for every 57 flights and that is not a good ratio. I do believe we need to continue space flights, but maybe we can follow the example of the Russians and use unmanned vehicles to transport hardware into space. ↗

— Lincoln Davis

#continue #every #example #flights #follow

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#lights #most #secure #want

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly. ↗

— George MacDonald

#delights #equal #few #presence #utterly