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Letter "G" » green light
«An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Optimism,
Pessimism,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
color-blind, colorblind, green, green light, optimist, pessimist, red, red light, stoplight
«Don't think of Diana Vreeland's memoir as a book; it's more like a lunch. A bit of souffle, a glass of champagne, some green grapes - light, bubbly and slightly tart - all served up by an egocentric but inventive hostess.»
Author: Cathleen McGuigan
| Keywords:
bubbly, champagne, Diana, Diana Vreeland, egocentric, grapes, green light, hostess, Hostesses, inventive, lunch, slightly, souffle, tart, tarts
«Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down upon her. The little maiden stretched out her hands towards them when--the match went out. The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven . . .»
Author: Hans Christian Andersen
(Author)
| Keywords:
colored, gaily, green light, Higher And Higher, picture window, stretched out
«On a traffic light green means go and yellow means yield, but on a banana it's just the opposite. Green means hold on, yellow means go ahead, and red means where the hell did you get that banana at...»
«London was beginning to illuminate herself against the night. Electric lights sizzled and jagged in the main thoroughfares, gas-lamps in the side streets glimmered a canary gold or green.»
Author: E. M. Forster
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
canary, electric light, gas lamp, glimmer, glimmering, Glimmers, green light, illuminate, in the main, jagged, lamps, sizzle, sizzled, sizzles, thoroughfare, thoroughfares
«Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock....his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.»
«The one had leaves of dark green that beneath were as shining silver, and from each of his countless flowers a dew of silver light was ever falling, and the earth beneath was dappled with the shadows of his fluttering leaves.»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
beneath, countless, dapple, dappled, dark-green, dark, dew, dews, falling, flowers, flutter, fluttered, fluttering, flutters, green, greener, greens, green earth, green light, leaves, shadows, Shadows of, shining, Shining Light, silver, silvering, the Earth, The greens, The Shadows
«Thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, / In some melodious plot / of beechen green, and shadows numberless, / Singest of summer in full-throated ease.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| Keywords:
beechen, dryad, green light, in full, melodious, numberless, plot, throated, winged
«Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.»
«The government has interpreted the peacefulness of the movement as a weakness: the people's non-violent policies have been taken as a green light for government violence. Refusal to resort to force has been interpreted by the government as an invitat»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Government,
Peace,
Violence
| Keywords:
green light, interpreted, non violent, peacefulness, policies, refusal, resort, resort to
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