#shining

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#apart #because #closed #curtains #draw

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#assigned #classified #communist #consider #heroism

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em. ↗

— Thomas Otway

#cloud #labour #like #loads #overcome

I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#box #bring #could #go #got

A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#extremism #free #iraq #islamic #light

Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold. ↗

— Zahi Hawass

#cannot #covered #explained #fifty #gold

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#defect #glaring #hides #lends #lustre

I'd never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified - I couldn't sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set. ↗

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

#days #film #found #four #get

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor. ↗

— Horace

#conceal #cover #hidden #light #now

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#cannot #come #content #happy #highways