#lights

Love is so confusing - you tell a girl she looks great and what's the first thing you do? Turn out the lights! ↗

— Robert Orben

#first #first thing #girl #great #lights

Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#get #god #hard #himself #life

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#american #foreign #indisputable #judge #lights

Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously. ↗

— Aaron Swartz

#being #bright #bright lights #down #expect

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#contrast #dark #dark shadows #earth #lights

Suffering is supposed to be the raw stuff of art. ↗

— Jay McInerney

#bright-lights #art

History's best thinkers eventually concluded that our flaws were too powerful to trust with freedom. Thus we've been groomed as hamsters in a wheel that benefits a laughing few. No more great works will be accomplished under the regime, because beauty is not democratic or profitable. ↗

— D.B.C. Pierre

#beauty

There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#evil #hearts #lights #psychology #psychopaths

I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you're not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#exhaustion #lightsong #work #work-ethic #ethics

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights. ↗

— Richard Branson

#casino #flights #get #least #lucky