„Sun, and sky, and breeze, and solitary walks, and summer holidays, and the greenness of fields, and the delicious juices of meats and fishes, and society, and the cheerful glass, and candle-light, and fire-side conversations, and innocent vanities, and irony itself-- do these things go out with life? Can a ghost laugh, or shake his gaunt sides, when you are pleasant with him?“

„The next day I was in my car driving along the freeway when at a red light another car pulled alongside. A white woman was driving and on the passenger's side, next to me, was a white man. "Malcolm X!" he called out-and when I looked, he stuck his hand out of his car, across at me, grinning. "Do you mind shaking hands with a white man?" Imagine that! Just as the traffic light turned green, I told him, "I don't mind shaking hands with human beings. Are you one?"“

—  Malcolm X American human rights activist 1925 - 1965

p. 418

„So I light the fire with the lighter and then I'm like, 'Now, how am I going to light the candles?' And I'm racing through the house, tearing open drawers and throwing things out of closets, looking for matches … and I had just lit the fire with the thing!!! And then I was like, 'How did I light the fire?“

—  Megan Mullally American actress 1958

So then l took the thing and lit the candles.
Attributed

„For a breeze of morning moves,
And the planet of Love is on high,
Beginning to faint in the light that she loves
On a bed of daffodil sky,
To faint in the light of the sun she loves,
To faint in his light, and to die.“

—  Alfred, Lord Tennyson British poet laureate 1809 - 1892

Part I, section xxii, stanza 2
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)

„When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed.“

—  Milan Kundera, libro Encounter

Fuente: Encounter

„Who wants to fish, if you're halfway civilised? Dangling some dead meat in front of some poor brainless thing and then pulling him up by a hook in the roof of his mouth? Cruellest thing people do is fish.“

—  John Updike, libro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

„Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.“

—  Winston S. Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874 - 1965

„It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.“

—  Algernon Sidney British politician and political theorist 1623 - 1683

Fuente: Discourses Concerning Government (1689), Ch. 2, Sect. 18; comparable to: "Like his that lights a candle to the sun", John Fletcher, Letter to Sir Walter Aston; "And hold their farthing candle to the sun", Edward Young, Satire vii. line 56.

„It was a summer evening,
Old Kaspar's work was done,
And he before his cottage door
Was sitting in the sun,
And by him sported on the green
His little grandchild Wilhelmine.“

—  Robert Southey British poet 1774 - 1843

St. 1.
The Battle of Blenheim http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/the_battle_of_blenheim.html (1798)

„Side by Side:
We sat side by side in the morning light & looked out at the future together.“

—  Brian Andreas American artist 1956

„Kissing Simon was pleasant. It was a gentle sort of pleasant, like lying in a hammock on a summer day with a book and a glass of lemonade“

—  Cassandra Clare American author 1973

„Sport, that wrinkled Care derides,
And Laughter, holding both his sides.
Come, and trip it, as you go.
On the light fantastic toe.“

—  John Milton English epic poet 1608 - 1674

Fuente: L'Allegro (1631), Line 31

„Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.“

—  Anne Lamott Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist 1954

„Humans: The only animal who can laugh!/ We can enjoy the lighter side of life/ And we can also laugh at others/ And ridicule others!“

—  Kuruvilla Pandikattu Indian philosopher 1957

Life: Relish It!
Life: Relish It! (2012)

„When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?“

—  Shel Silverstein, libro A Light in the Attic

A Light in the Attic

„But she didn't laugh. "When you have children," she said, staring at her glass, "you accept life. Do you accept life?"“

—  Cesare Pavese Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator 1908 - 1950

Fuente: Among women only (1949), Chapter 9, p. 212

„There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.“

—  Alan Hirsch South African missionary 1959

Fuente: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 88

„But must we really light a candle to see the sun?“

—  Wernher von Braun German, later an American, aerospace engineer and space architect 1912 - 1977

From a letter to the California State board of Education (14 September 1972)
Contexto: My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?

„Do what we can, summer will have its flies: if we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitos: if we go a-fishing, we must expect a wet coat.“

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841)

„The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don't know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing we do with a President is shunt him off to a siding where nothing American can ever happen to him.“

—  Russell Baker writer and satirst from the United States 1925 - 2019

"The President's Plumbing" (p.19)
So This Is Depravity (1980)