Pastoral Resources

It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness.

Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.

My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.

When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.

On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.

If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well.

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.

For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.