A Quote by Terry Pratchett

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Terry Pratchett

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Better Curse Darkness Light Sometimes Than

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Terry Pratchett
English - Author
April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness.

Confucius

Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.'

Peter Benenson

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society. Perhaps, my belief is along the old saying that 'it is always better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.'

Al Seckel

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

John F. Kennedy

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

John F. Kennedy

She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

Adlai E. Stevenson

In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.

Al Gore

My heroes have always been the hardworking and unflappable. Those who light a candle rather than curse the darkness.

Matthew Gray Gubler

Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present.

Albert Einstein

...be a light unto the darkness, and curse it not

Neale Donald Walsch

Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.

Confucius

Paintings may not have nearly the power to convert people that the printed or spoken word has, but each man has his part to play in the human and divine drama - some persons just a few lines, others whole pages. To refuse to play one's role at all is not the answer. It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

William Kurelek

Darkness is a lower energy than light, and when you bring light to the presence of darkness you don't have to warn it, you don't have to tell it that it has to get away. It can't survive. Light dissolves darkness. And so does love dissolve hate and so does joy dissolve sadness and so does faith dissolve doubt and so on.