Top 1200 Points Of Light Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Are kids smarter than adults? All evidence points to that being true.

It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

Available light is any damn light that is available!

On all basic points our policies have proved correct from the very beginning.

Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For in all these Hypotheses the Phaenomena of Light have been hitherto explain'd by supposing that they arise from new Modifications of the Rays; which is an erroneous Supposition.

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he replied: "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way."

For much of the Internet, the shortest path between two points doesn't exist.

Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them.

at the end of the game the team with the most points on the board is going to win.

What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different.

Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.

As the brain of man is the speck of dust in the universe that thinks, so the leaves—the fern and the needled pine and the latticed frond and the seaweed ribbon—perceive the light in a fundamental and constructive sense. … Their leaves see the light, as my eyes can never do. … They impound its stellar energy, and with that force they make life out of the elements.

One of the turning points of my life was when I got my first bait-casting outfit.

Stories are how we remember; we tend to forget lists and bullet points.

Everyone tends to measure people on points and shots and not the all-around game.

The velocity of light occupies an extraordinary place in modern physics. It is lèse-majesté to make any criticism of the velocity of light. It is a sacred cow within a sacred cow, and it is just about the Absolutest Absolute in the history of human thought.

I feel like I'm dreaming. 10,000 points in the NBA. It's crazy.

When you take stock, there are so many more choices and points of view that are necessary.

The bulldogs with the first points on the board. Tim Tebow looking to change that.

Matter is Energy ... Energy is Light ... We are all Light Beings

There are no points for civility or decency when it comes to prosecuting the campaign against Donald Trump.

Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points.

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.

Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?

There was a little corner of his mind that was still his own, and light came through it, as though a chink in the dark: light out of the past. It was actually pleasant, I think, to hear a kindly voice agin, bringing up memories of wind, and trees, and sun on the grass, and such forgotten things.

In our absence, the violet early evening light pours in the bay window, filling the still room like water poured into a glass. The glass is delicate. The thin, tight surface of the liquid light trembles. But it does not break. Time does not pass. Not yet.

There is so much to be learned from listening to people's hopes, frustrations, and points of view

I think the writers give us different people to work with, different situation scenarios to be in and there's always that fun balance of, you know, trying to keep it light and, you know, light-hearted and put in the comedy while trying to make it into drama.

I would be surprised if they gave Meryl Streep her third Oscar for a film as light as 'Julie and Julia,' although, of course, Katharine Hepburn's third Oscar came with a very light performance from her in 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.'

It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.

I just got a car, and I gotta say, this car is very cryptic. The very first day I drove it, a light came on out of nowhere: 'Check engine.' Could they be any more vague? What if a light came on and said, 'Problem'?

You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.

A researcher has to be able to identify key points and suggest intelligent questions.

We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.

A lot of people telling the same story from their various points of view.

I'm not going to drag it out or make a point, because points are pointless.

It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all points just as we are.

Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.

Your brand is a story unfolding across all customer touch points.

I want to reach for 150 or 200 points this season, whichever comes first.

A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man's life.

Speaking from memory, I don't know how many points Nelson Piquet has.

When you go into the other guy's backyard you cannot hope to win on points.

Growing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back as well and use that spotlight to shine, or at least to balance that light and to try to shine light onto the other issues that were happening in the world.

Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.

For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light, in order to feel safe and secure; we were bathed in the same light that burned and yet did not consume the bush. We walked barefoot on holy ground.

I didn't really ever race for points growing up, and so I had to learn that.

Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.

Sometimes I have lapses of attention, and I can lose some points very quickly.

If you have really experienced the inner light, sex will disappear. Love will happen to you, but sex will disappear; sexuality will disappear. Love, a very loving personality, will take its place. There will be no desire for sex. If the desire for sex remains, you have not experienced the inner light. Then the inner light is just a projection of the mind.

Setting points targets is sometimes the worst thing you can do - it puts pressure on.

One of Boomer's strong points is that he has a great background in just about everything.

I try to help the team. It doesn't matter if you have to score 50 points or zero.

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

Once you are on court, it doesn't matter the way you look. It doesn't help you win points.

Unlike regular digital or film cameras, which can only record a scene in two dimensions, light field cameras capture all of the light rays traveling in every direction through a scene. This means that some aspects of a picture can be manipulated after the fact.

There is no light in electronincs. There is lightening. But lightening is not real light.

I'm a very observational type of comedian that points out everyday absurdities.

Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.