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Related COLUM MCCANN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES JACKIE VIRAMONTEZ It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA When you embrace the things you do not understand, you understand what is embraced JOHN M SHEEHAN When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me... GARY F EVANS... SARAH J. MAAS TAMMARA WEBBER You cannot defeat darkness by running from it, nor can you conquer your inner demons by hiding them ... SETH ADAM SMITH True spirituality does not require the need of an external middleman or mediator (priest, rabbi, gur... THE INNER LIGHT C. JOYBELL C. It is now lighted, Let's enjoy the Light, learn and walk in the Light so we may see the rough roads ... VICTOR SUR Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you. F. JOHNSON MAX STIRNER Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with
you. Walk while ye have the light,... BIBLE MARIE LU HENRY JAMES ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL NEIL GAIMAN FRANCINE RIVERS No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with whi... ROBERT AICKMAN LISA KLEYPAS CHRISTINA ENGELA We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL The light was everywhere. He would tell me later I looked like an angel... but he just looked like t... QUIL CARTER What can I do, Muslims? I do not know myself.JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY JOHN UPDIKE FRANCINE RIVERS FRANCINE RIVERS GOD is like a streetlight. He keeps observing you silently when it is light and showers you with lig... UMA SHANKER ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH C. JOYBELL C. when you fall into darkness do not spend all your energy and light rather than to remain in darkness... KAMARAN IHSAN SALIH ENOCK MAREGESI People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. C.J. ROBERTS MARIE LU Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE RICHARD CARLSON He who puts off the light of another had sown the seed of darkness into his own future. BAMIGBOYE OLUROTIMI MATSHONA DHLIWAYO BLAISE PASCAL EPHRAIM GOTTHOLD LESSING COVENTRY PATMORE ALBERT CAMUS C. JOYBELL C. GREG RUCKA This plant represents what's happening inside of you. The world, like the soil, is cold and dark—l... SETH ADAM SMITH STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY Where death follows, there’s life. When darkness surrounds you in a world of chaos, search and you... LEE ARGUS MATSHONA DHLIWAYO SOURCE UNKNOWN A.A. MILNE A.A. MILNE JOHN DONNE HARUKI MURAKAMI FRANCIS OF ASSISI SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH MANDY HALE JEANETTE CORON DIANA WYNNE JONES PAULO COELHO EDITH SITWELL FRANCINE RIVERS NEIL GAIMAN In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be... HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ We sang the song as children of the mystery that we hoped to one day comprehend and now, at last, we... MISHI MCCOY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM She was a young thing, a child really, full of hope and light, who’s only friends were the shadows... LEXIE SYRAH MARIANNE WILLIAMSON ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA RICHARD CARLSON As he stood in the darkness, his eyes glistened and that’s when I knew my light found its traction... DOMINIC RICCITELLO MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I travel to know where I fit into the world, and where I don’t. CAREW PAPRITZ Quoting from Thomas MertonSTEPHEN COPE J.R.R. TOLKIEN ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one ... DONALD DAVIDSON From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:THE PROPHET OF LIFE Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi... THE BOOK OF THE DEAD When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t... THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT
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COLUM JOYCE This was a great chance to honor both teams in what turned out to be a really successful season. BETH MCCANN We had a great tournament and we have no reason to hang our heads. We have a young team and that hur... BETH MCCANN She's doing quite well with the team. She really beefs up our defensive line. BETH MCCANN This was good practice for next weekend. BETH MCCANN My parents aren't giving any pressure on distance, ... This will be my decision, totally. It will be... BRYAN MCCANN There is more emotion playing defense, ... If you make a mistake but are going hard, you can still b... BRYAN MCCANN I have offers from UAB , SMU , Northwestern and Stanford, ... Stanford offered toward the end of my ... BRYAN MCCANN [It is the] jobs of groups like us to make sure that doesn't happen. Anytime there is a local screen... BRYAN MCCANN My parents aren't giving any pressure on distance, ... This will be my decision, totally. It will be... BRYAN MCCANN There is more emotion playing defense, ... If you make a mistake but are going hard, you can still ... BRYAN MCCANN I have offers from UAB , SMU , Northwestern and Stanford, ... Stanford offered toward the end of my ... BRYAN MCCANN [Devine] is going to be a great pitcher in this league someday, BRIAN MCCANN It was greatest moment I've ever had on the baseball field. Everything just felt right, and it was a... BRIAN MCCANN You never expect to hit a home run off a guy like that, ... He's the best pitcher in baseball. He's ... BRIAN MCCANN He threw the ball OK. In the second inning, he wasn't hitting his locations like he wanted to. But h... BRIAN MCCANN I was going to go up hacking, ... Pitcher on deck. Two outs. He can start throwing his dirtiest stuf... BRIAN MCCANN He's just a starting pitcher. He's got three pitches, and he can throw them all for strikes. With hi... BRIAN MCCANN I tried to hurry up the throw and it sailed on me. It's terrible. BRIAN MCCANN has calluses older than McCann. The kid was 83 days old when Clemens broke in with the Red Sox. He w... BRIAN MCCANN Class AA is where you prove you can play, where you prove you can hit consistently good pitching. Ev... BRIAN MCCANN He's got great stuff. He's got about eight pitches. I put something down and he throws whatever. He ... BRIAN MCCANN We all kind of put in that extra effort to make sure the job gets done. It's getting progressively h... BOB MCCANN Based on the new rules, Michigan probably now has the strictest mining laws in the country. BOB MCCANN Once that happened, the disputes were resolved and both parties are able to move on. BOB MCCANN The goal is to get this plan into workable shape. BOB MCCANN I was a bit of a late developer, and everyone was saying, 'Whatever you do, don't shave,'... RORY MCCANN In the business I meet some beautiful women, but to be honest, 80 per cent of them are raving lunati... RORY MCCANN You shouldn't intervene. No citizen should feel compelled unless they see something that is exactly ... KELLY MCCANN Down there, basketball is the big thing. Some of my friends that I've known since kindergarten are s... ALEX MCCANN I didn't start playing until I was 12, but I didn't get really serious until I was in high school. ALEX MCCANN The thing that I just discovered, which fascinates me really - my name, McCann, the translation isn&... RORY MCCANN I see a lot of loyalty and commitment. In our businesses we have very little voluntary turnover. CHERYL MCCANN We started this on a whim four years ago. We don't want to make it any larger than it is. It really ... JIM MCCANN His stuff he had in Milwaukee was the same stuff he had tonight. BRIAN MCCANN We see people coming in who want the flexibility. They want to work a couple of days a week. It's ju... CHERYL MCCANN I am pleased, I was a bit annoyed yesterday as I would have caught the breakaways for sure, DAVID MCCANN People actually have come in to see Carol. CHERYL MCCANN We're always looking to advance as many as we can. We're happy with nine, I feel bad for Sammy (Mart... KEVIN MCCANN I was a lumberjack for years, a pub bouncer, I've sung in a band; in fact, I still sing, and I e... RORY MCCANN I'm on my boat, training, rehearsing; I spend all my energy on the job that's coming up, and... RORY MCCANN I'm just about to move to a place that you can only get there by rowing a boat across a loch, wh... RORY MCCANN So much is yet to come. Soon will be blankets and pillows, and books by the bed to make the stuff of... JIM MCCANN Our mentality is that we're going to play the same if it's the seventh game of the World Series or a... BRIAN MCCANN You know, he's one of the greatest pitchers of all time. Just to get a pitch up, out over the plate,... BRIAN MCCANN We'll just have to regroup and come back next year. We're really not thinking about next year right ... BRIAN MCCANN Pressure wasn't the problem. Everyone has pressure on them at this level. He threw really well. If w... BRIAN MCCANN The ministry is doing a great job helping people. What happens when the help stops? Is the city taki... TOM MCCANN It's like, it doesn't even matter to me. I just want to play at that next level. DEE MCCANN I'm anxious. Little nervous. You know how it is. You never know until that day comes. DEE MCCANN This takes a lot of pressure off of us. Win or lose we still have the Big East title. DEE MCCANN Step by step. Just focus. DEE MCCANN They were saying they were coming in to take the Big East. I don't see that happening. DEE MCCANN I had my fingernails in his jersey and he stepped away. He's got a lot of speed and quickness, but h... DEE MCCANN My parents aren't giving any pressure on distance, ... This will be my decision, totally. It will be... BRYAN MCCANN There is more emotion playing defense, ... If you make BRYAN MCCANN I have offers from UAB , SMU , Northwestern and Stanford, ... Stanford offered toward the end of my ... BRYAN MCCANN With the magnitude of the game, catching 18 innings, it didn't seem like that, ... If it was a regul... BRIAN MCCANN You couldn't write a better script, ... for any of this. BRIAN MCCANN Certainly it seems like it's better to leave business on the table rather than take on something you... JIM MCCANN I thought yesterday was made for me, but I guess I was a day out. DAVID MCCANN He broke the law in Canada and so if we are going to let him be charged he should be charged here, w... DAVID MCCANN If he gets charged in Canada that will have major legal consequences for that extradition request. DAVID MCCANN We are really strong. We're in a good position. But there is a long way to go in this race, and anyt... DAVID MCCANN [They can be used to react quickly to reports about Taliban and al Qaeda forces in the area, said J.... KELLY MCCANN We're just frustrated because we were told one thing and that turned out not to be the case, JACK MCCANN The county judge (Dale Haas) then told me to go ahead and if nothing worked the county would pick up... JACK MCCANN I was told to talk with the Red Cross, ... I talked with Mark (Massey) with the Red Cross and he sai... JACK MCCANN I was told they would need at least one officer at the shelter 24-7, ... I was told the state (Depar... JACK MCCANN Two weeks ago, an employee with the governor's office called me at my office and said several evacue... JACK MCCANN I didn't murder him, he was already dead when I cut his throat. JACK MCCANN I want to prepare her that, if he's coming back here, there are going to be some problems -- to what... JACK MCCANN Whether anybody agrees with it or not, he has served his sentence, JACK MCCANN I want to prepare her that, if he's coming back here, there are going to be some problems ? to what ... JACK MCCANN It's extraordinarily difficult. It forces challengers to be extremely creative or have deep pockets ... JAMES MCCANN It's vitally important that we succeed and continue to raise money, JAMES MCCANN A lot of different things go into the mix when determining whether or not Roberts is confirmed. The ... JAMES MCCANN The senators will want to ask about views on presidential powers, women's rights and minorities, bec... JAMES MCCANN has a problem with that. JAMES MCCANN God cuts out our path, makes a groove in the clay with His finger, and we poor blind ants slide down... MARIA MCCANN We try to look at what events may occur that will involve Army forces. LYNNE MCCANN This is a larger effort within the Defense Department for language studies and cultural awareness. T... LYNNE MCCANN Our cemeteries are very unique and I know when people come to New Orleans, tourists and all, they lo... LUCY MCCANN There are so many factors driving employers away from retiree health benefits ? ... escalating healt... LAURIE MCCANN The seniors all had a great season, it was an awesome year. Next year we will have high expectations... LAMONT MCCANN It was a really tough tournament. We did well. I was proud of their day, we got a lot accomplished a... LAMONT MCCANN We really didn't know what we had with Shane until after the Sierra Nevada Classic. Some schools hav... LAMONT MCCANN People are a lot more aware that there is treatment for sleep disorders. They are also less willing ... KATHLEEN MCCANN With the growth of sleep centers, a lot are fly-by-night. They're not equipped to provide a proper e... KATHLEEN MCCANN I have friends who are blacksmiths in the north of Scotland, so I took a few master classes with,the... RORY MCCANN
What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find
Darkness is nothing
She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. 
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." 
Remember that light becomes evident in darkness. We do not create light by avoiding those who are ca... 
From the moment when he catches sight of the light of the world, a man seeks to find out himself and... 
He is beauty, inside and out.
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. 
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as ... 
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... 
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
Stop running from me and listen. I do want you. I want you even knowing if I marry you, I’ve got a... 
The Doktor was an old man. When he was a kid, his Dad bought him a chemistry set. He never played wi... 
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... 
So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... 
We Are All Infinite 
The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is ... 
If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. 
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... 
The candle is the light of life that is constantly thriving to hang on and light up the darkness of ... 
Day, the boy from the streets with nothing except the clothes on his back and the earnestness in his... 
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. 
Open your mind. Accept differences. Yearn for peace. Heal the world. 
If the mercy of God is so great that He can instruct us, to our salvation, even when He hides Himsel... 
While Fell was reposing himself in the hay,
A reptile concealed bit his leg as he lay;
But, al... 
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the... 
There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a ... 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
For the light to exist, there must be the dark. For the Force, there must be balance. 
If sunlight helps plants grow, imagine what your inner light can help flourish. 
He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light. 
Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. 
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Love is a growing, or full constant light,
Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the ... 
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. 
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. 
In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... 
When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. 
When there's darkness on earth, be a light in the world. 
She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. 
What is the Other?" they ask.
All day long you sit and sew,
He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor... 
Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know t... 
How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ... 
Even on the cross He did not hide Himself from sight; rather, He made all creation witness to the pr... 
It is not the size of the candle that matters, but the size of its light. 
Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer... 
This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the prec... 
We have all heard of these things before. The love letter arriving as the teacup falls. The guitar s... 
I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispo...