Best 1436 quotes in «sun quotes» category

For me, Sun Tzu's statement that military force is based upon deception is an extraordinary statement.

For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun.

For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.

Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun.

Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.

From that moment onwards, our loathsome society rushed, like Narcissus, to contemplate its trivial image on a metallic plate. A form of lunacy, an extraordinary fanaticism took hold of these new sun-worshippers.

From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

Full Disclosure: I hate David with the passion of a thousand fiery suns all going to supernova at the same time

Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Genuinely good people are like that. The sun shines out of them. They warm you right through.

Go now and wash yourself first, for the sun will laugh at you if he sees how dirty you are.

Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.

God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.

Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive.

God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

Greed puts out the sun.

He'd said the sun could burn me. It certainly looked angry enough, all orange and glowing mad.

Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things. - Hannah Schneider

Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.

Having a debate right now over whether or not to legalize marijuana is kind of like having a debate over whether the sun will come up tomorrow.

He dropped the pretense, and dropped his head, so his brow came to rest against the sun-warmed top of hers. His arms went around her and drew her in, and Karou and Akiva were like two matches struck against each other to flare starlight. With a sigh, she softened, and it was pure homecoming to melt against him and rest.

He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.

He hadn't realized yet that Gansey could persuade even the sun to pause and give him the time.

Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to stand still - and they obeyed.

He rises over me, a second sun, and fills me with light and heat.

He was alone in the darkness once more, but the darkness became brighter and brighter until it was burning like the sun.

He smiles then, and even though it is well past midnight, its as if the sun has just come out.

He said even if it's too cloudy to see, the sun will still rise, it will still be there. "But that's the whole point," I said. "Seeing it." "Is it?" he said.

His tenderness in the springing grass, His beauty in the flowers, His living love in the sun above- All here, and near, and ours!

His forehead was covered by wrinkles brought on by a lot of sun and too much frowning.

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun, and with him rise weeping.

Honestly, people have said everything under the sun. I just want to do my work, raise my kids, and hopefully find somebody who I can share my life with again.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

How did you become blind, uh, Jeff is it?" Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way they always tell you not to. If only I had listened.

How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?

How sickly grow, How pale, the plants in those ill-fated vales That, circled round with the gigantic heap Of mountains, never felt, nor ever hope To feel, the genial vigor of the sun!

How do we beat her? I asked. You pretty much don’t, Horus said. She is the incarnation of the sun’s wrath. Back in the day when Ra was active, she would have been much more impressive, but still. .She’s unstoppable. A born killer. A slaying machine— “Okay, I get it!” I yelled.

How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun!

I am allergic highly to the sun; that's my worst enemy.

I always thought he gave me that name because I have a kind of outgoing or sunny disposition. And in those days I was kinda blonde and bearded and had an afro and was bushy like a sun. So I don't know, he named me Surya Das but who knows.

I am a creature of the sun. I don't ever mind being in the heat.

I am a tomb robber who is robbing my own tomb. Things from my tomb are exhibited under the radiant sun. Every time it happens I feel crude.

I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period.

I am passionate about what is going on with the oceans, mainly because we are for some idiotic reason, really screwing it up. I mean, we're really killing the ocean. It's like putting out the sun. Without it, there is no us.

I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman’s eyes are; I cannot look at them; they are the sun to me.

I can promise you that the world is a factory.  The sun stirs it, the humans rule it.  And I remain.  I carry them away.- spoken by death