The Shining Quotes

There is no moral equivalent between that butcher and thug and KGB colonel Vladimir Putin and the United States of America, the country that Ronald Reagan used to call a shining city on a hill.

When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements.

A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.

What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?

Come rain or come shine.

Stanley Kubrick made Shelly Duvall go crazy during 'The Shining.' It's like one of the best performances ever. Maybe he shouldn't have gone that far, but I love that movie.

Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.

I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards the Tartar: Then the half, and then the whole, Ever dancing round the pole.

We have to shine a bright light on horrific moments in society if we're going to create a better world for our children.

Seek not to shine by borrow'd lights alone.

You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.

Have you, in truth, ever seen something so heartbreakingly lovely? What are we to make of a world where stars shine bright in the midst of so much darkness and gloom?

Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours.

While I can hire out the portrait, I don't, because it's just - that's where I shine. You know, that's my blood sport.

I want to fight the wussification of the State of Texas. I want to rise and shine and bring back the glory.

We're going to make that Lone Star shine again.

I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.

Go forward with new zeal and determination, and through your example shine the light of the gospel in this troubled world.

Do not strive for the shine of jade, but clatter like stone.

I got the idea she'd done her makeup up special for this. Not that she needed much. She was utterly and completely beautiful, except for the hate shining in her eyes.

The moon shines for you.

When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above. Page 279

Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.

It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit like Sydney, I guess, but the underbelly is a vicious, mean, cruel, awful place.

The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.

The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.

Beauty is not in outer perfection but rather in the amount of light we allow to shine through the very thing obscuring our souls.

My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.

Let love shine and we will find a way to come together.

No, you have to talk first. You wanted to talk. It means you say something and I respond and you talk back again. It's one of the human race's most shining achievements. It's called a conversation.

I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous - she just shines in everything she does - and I'm a big Susan Sarandon fan.

Instapaper is much bigger today than I could have predicted in 2008, and it has simply grown far beyond what one person can do. To really shine, it needs a full-time staff of at least a few people.

Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death?

Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine. Out of the dearth and the famine, into the fulness divine.

I know you're shining down on me from Heaven, like so many friends we've lost along the way. And I know eventually we'll be together, one sweet day.

Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.

Hopefully, I will emerge more shining. If I have that good fortune, if I am blessed in that way - and I do feel I am in the middle of the blessing - then I have faith my service will be greater.

What is the value of light when it no longer shines

I'm just a journalist. I shine a mirror to the culture. I give the cop-out answer.

No matter how much tarnish you think is on the tabernacle of your heart, you still shine because of God's love.

Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine.

But sometimes you just have to be your own eyes. You have to see yourself shining and stop waiting for other eyes to see you.

See stars in the changing season and dance among them, shining.

Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust.

By her shining and her power he knew her.

Anybody can get from point A to point B, but how you get there, that's the fun part. That's the story. That's when you can really let go and let your uniqueness shine!

It is in the darkest night that the light we are shines brightest

She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.

Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.