#shining

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#feel #full #full moon #happy #how

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. ↗

— Willa Cather

#art #away #element #elusive #hurrying

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#aim #another #endure #everybody #fear

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world. ↗

— Lotte Lehmann

#his #music #over #path #poet

Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining. ↗

— Sonny Liston

#dumb #look #questions #shining #sun

I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining. ↗

— Ed Miliband

#crumbling #did #eighteen #fix #generation

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#candidate #city #fundamentally #hill #into

I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#enhanced #i #i do #interrogation #killing

There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#american revolution #branch #cincinnati #george #george washington

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill. ↗

— Michael Reagan

#because #city #father #hill #shining