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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.


J.R.R. Tolkien

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MONICA KEILANI M-P It’s so dark - as if all the lights are just there to make the other places seem darker.
MARGARET MAHY And you, Ring-bearer,’ she said, turning to Frodo. ‘I come to you last who are not last in my th...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark,...
PENN JILLETTE You are my dark turned to bright, the day into my light. A vision of splendour to my lights, light.
TRUTH DEVOUR When the asteroid hits the big ball of lights, flares will go off and all the other lights will go o...
JACK DEVENNEY War is like a dark tunnel: You may only see the light once you are out of it.
CHRISTOPHER FEBVRE Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the othe...
VERNON HOWARD But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.
JEANETTE WINTERSON I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in tha...
CARL BARKS The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energ...
JAMIE FOXX When GOD opens a door and it looks dark on the inside. Don't fret. You are forgetting one thing: you...
TEMITOPE IBRAHIM The idea was to bring in natural light where we could. There may be days ... when they won't have li...
MARK CLAUSSEN We want to turn the lights on in some of those places that have been in the dark.
ANGIE CARTER I don't think it's going to go away at all. With the strong Roman Catholic population in Massachuset...
CHARLES HAYNES Who doesn't have a dark place somewhere inside him that comes out sometimes when he's looking in a m...
MACDONALD HARRIS I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writin...
CARL BARKS You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you p...
JOE FRAZIER We have gotten nothing but positive feedback for the lights. The audience likes turning the house li...
KATY MCKINNEY Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.
SOURCE UNKNOWN There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.
ROD SERLING There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all l...
BRAM STOKER Have you found a stairs to the light? The first thing you must do is to inform others so that you ca...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN When you turn the lights on, it's not dark anymore,
EARLE CALDWELL Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRY Turn up the lights--I don't want to go home in the dark.
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PAUL DI FILIPPO When you cause night, it is understood that you are ready to live in the dark. Do not expect that yo...
MARIANA FULGER You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light fro...
JIMMY IOVINE Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRY In Dark Places,
May we Never be truly Alone.....
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SUSAN SCHRODER When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.
PIERCE BROWN There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darknes...
JODI PICOULT You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
ARLO GUTHRIE When hope turns dark,
I will bring the sun to light it,
I shall guide, protect thee, AYUSHMAN JAMWAL I want you to see that the sky is filled with stars when the city lights go dark. I want you to know...
SOL VALERIA Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's t...
PETER SHAFFER All you need to know about the light is in being in the dark.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've...
BEAU WILLIMON When there's darkness around you, shine your light even brighter.
JEANETTE CORON I have no place to go. If you can get something done for the people living in tents, at least give t...
HENRY MORGAN I warn you, the trip will not be easy. Once you choose to walk in the light, your path will lead you...
DAVE WOLVERTON The people would go out and buy stuff from other places and be re-selling it on their front yard as ...
BRIAN SWEET The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical va...
C.S. LEWIS Being in the dark places you realize the light of the gospel shines so much brighter that there is n...
SHAMPA RICE When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with...
YVES ROSSY I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part...
ANNE LAMOTT Should you ever be so lucky to encounter them, never let go of that person who makes your dark light...
CLYDE LEE DENNIS She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.
SARAH J. MAAS You cannot be a light to others or yourself, if you have dark intentions in your heart.
KEMI SOGUNLE No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he put...
JESUS CHRIST Never deny in the dark, what you know to be true in the light
PROVERB It's a little dark in the terminal. About every other light is on.
BILL GRAHAM You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and st...
SHANNON L. ALDER If you should ever be so lucky to encounter them, never let go of that person who makes your dark li...
CLYDE LEE DENNIS People thought the storyline and characters for 'X-Files' made it a 'dark' show, but...
CHRIS CARTER If you have ever come up against Nothing you have no idea how it can scare you out of your wits. Whe...
HOWARD SPRING Nothing is dark when you embosom your own light within you
MUNIA KHAN In order to fulfill your search for light, you must be comfortable in the dark...
N. S. COLE When you go home you ought to go like a ray of light—so that it will, even in the night, burst out...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everyth...
STEPHEN KING You and I are like night and day, we complement each other. When it's too bright to see the stars th...
ROSA M. BETANCES Our old shop flooded when it rained. As long as it stays where it's supposed to go, we'll be all rig...
CRAIG BARANOUSKI You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever...
SUE MONK KIDD Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.
MARY RENAULT Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.
MARY RENAULT We Be Close to You Jesus, You are our Light and Hope in this dark world
RAFAEL D JESUS FERRERAS CASTILLO Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction.
DAVID KELLEY Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT Truth, 'tis supposed, may bear all lights; and one those principal lights or natural mediums by whi...
SIR ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, 7TH EARL OF SHAFTESBURY We try to teach students a set of skills to utilize when the lights, in addition to the TV and Inter...
LAURE GARGANO Your sight takes you where there is light... But your visions can take you through the dark places! ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR When everythng is dark around you,dont you ever open the light cause you will get shocked just wait ...
OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN Women cant help but be on their mobiles all day, BUT if they go out funny how the dam thing stays at...
MIKE GRIST It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you...
JAMES DOUGLAS It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt yo...
JAMES DOUGLAS Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain g...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I think it shows that the market here is softening a little bit. San Diego was advancing more rapidl...
ALAN GIN Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright l...
JULIAN SCHNABEL We pray that the Lord may help us to produce His light in ourselves, even in dark days, so that we m...
POPE BENEDICT XVI I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light yo...
LIBBA BRAY Of course, it is quite possible to be in the dark in the dark, but there are so many secrets in the ...
LEMONY SNICKET People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.
C.J. ROBERTS It may well be that we go in different phases in different places. There is no reason why we would h...
HAZEL BLEARS In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.
KAMI GARCIA the inner light of ourselves cannot be compared with any lights of the planet... combine the both li...
BRIJESH SINGH Gotta have opposites, light and dark and dark and light, in painting. It’s like in life. Gotta hav...
BOB ROSS Even the dark places are places. You're still somewhere.
K. FLAY When I was your age, I would go to plays all the time, just sit in the darkness and try to take it a...
BRENNA EHRLICH May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see t...
BOB DYLAN The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, ...
STEPHEN KING A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness ...
ANNE LAMOTT This time may be dark, but all regrowth starts in the darkness of a seed.
DARIS LAPOINTE Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear brig...
JULIAN SCHNABEL The phrase "in the dark," as I'm sure you know, can refer not only to one's shadowy surroundings, bu...
LEMONY SNICKET Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be...
BROOKE BURKE Do we have the green light here? As far as green lights go, it's about as green as you can get.
RAJA BELL no light no dark no you no me
know light know dark know you know me
KAMI GARCIA

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J.R.R. TOLKIEN In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The way is shut.
Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I don’t know,’ said Frodo. ‘It came to me then, as if I was making it up; but I may have heard...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!
J.R.R. TOLKIEN his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Why, Sam,” he said, “to hear you somehow makes me as merry as if the
story was already writ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Cold be hand and heart and bone,
and cold be sleep under stone:
never more to wake on ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew:
Of wind I sang, a wind ther...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. He was glad tha...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastr...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN If I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a smal...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN And Iluvatar spoke to Ulmo, and said: 'Seest thou not how here in this little realm in the Deeps of ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN A divine 'punishment’ is also a divine 'gift’, if accepted, since its object is ultimate blessin...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wi...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief f...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calami...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's b...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for une...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I heard of that bloodthirsty old murderer Josef Stalin inviting all nations to join a happy family o...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn’ Ambar-metta!
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Fare well we call to hearth and hall
Though wind may blow and rain may fall
We must away e...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN You do not understand' said Pippin. 'You must go - and therefore we must too. Merry and I are coming...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!'
Pity? It was Pit...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to re...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
J.R.R. TOLKIEN We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also re...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN How shall a man judge what to do in such times?'
'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good a...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Do not go to the elves for council for they will say both yes and no.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathom...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least cor...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN ...in doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN