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  • Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

    Life   Halos   Lamps  
    1919 'Modern Fiction'.
  • To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.

    Future   Promise   Halos  
    John Dewey (2005). “Art as Experience”, p.17, Penguin
  • What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

    Halos   Cleaning   Virtue  
    The Lady's not for Burning (1949) act 1
  • In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face the face of one long dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.

    Wall   Night   Light  
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2399, Delphi Classics
  • If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.

    "The Truth About How We Think". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. March 20, 2012.
  • She was a vision in a white gown her dark hair forming a hazy halo around her rosy heart-shaped face. Her long lashes fluttered to touch her cheeks and then her eyes opened fully in his direction. Her small round mouth flexed in an immediate and knowing smile. That's the girl I'm going to marry Henry thought.

    Girl   Eye   Heart  
  • I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.

    Erica Jong (1991). “Becoming light: poems, new and selected”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction assent, an enraged eye makes beauty a deformity; so you see, forsooth, the little organ plays no inconsiderable, if not a dominant, part.

    Beautiful   Eye   Heart  
  • I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts.

    Love   Hurt   Light  
    E. L. Konigsburg (1999). “The View from Saturday”, p.70, Simon and Schuster
  • The 'halo effect' is clearly alive and well.

    Halos   Alive   Wells  
  • The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethics which will include the animals also. My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to it. If I want others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see however strange it may be to mine. Ethics in our western world has hitherto been largely limited to the relation of man to man... but that is a limited ethics.

    Men   Thinking   Animal  
  • Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and perfecting the events which were to shed around the evening of his life the halo of a glorious and cloudless sunset.

    Christian   Sunset   Eye  
    Arthur W. Pink (2007). “Comfort for Christians”, p.15, Sovereign Grace Publishers,
  • If you have laser-like brain it's not always focused on the most productive things. If you want to play Halo: Reach all day, that's fine, but if you want to accomplish some other things, here are some ways to do that using your innate nerd gifts.

    Play   Nerd   Brain  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

    The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914) ch. 9, sect. 2
  • Above me I saw something I did not believe at first. Well above the haze layer of the earth's atmosphere were additonal faint thin bands of blue, sharply etched against the dark sky. They hovered over the earth like a succession of halos.

    Believe   Dark   Sky  
  • Future is not to be feared but confronted" :) -Halo

    Halos  
  • He leaned over her, the sun behind his head making a halo of gold, his face lit by the reflections off the water.

    Reflection   Water   Gold  
    Elizabeth Chandler (2011). “Evercrossed”, p.152, Simon and Schuster
  • Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with them.

    Stars   Halos  
  • I cannot worship the hippie, diaper, halo Christ because I cannot worship a guy I can beat up.

    Hippie   Guy   Halos  
    Relevant Interview, www.relevantmagazine.com. August 28, 2007.
  • My soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love. Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it has been transformed into a halo, its first is its last, and its last is its first. It encompases every being, slowly expanding to embrace all that ever will be.

    Love   Teaching   Two  
  • Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.

  • When I put the camera back to my eye, I noticed a particular guardsman pointing at me. I said, "I'll get a picture of this," and his rifle went off. And almost simultaneously, as his rifle went off, a halo of dust came off a sculpture next to me, and the bullet lodged in a tree. I dropped my camera in the realization that it was live ammunition. I don't know what gave me the combination of innocence and stupidity... but I never took cover.

    Eye   Dust   Stupidity  
    "Photographer John Filo discusses his famous Kent State photograph and the events of May 4, 1970". CNN News Chat, www.cnn.com. May 4, 2000.
  • The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

  • There's only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose.

    Nfl   Halos   Inches  
  • What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face. “Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.

    Sleep   Eye   Tunnels  
  • I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used to wear at some period during the old days: hats like enormous halos, festooned with fruit and flowers, and the feathers of exotic birds; hats like an idea of paradise, floating just above the head, a thought solidified.

    Flower   Thinking   Ideas  
    Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)

    Ideas   Halos   Way  
    Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.75, RH Childrens Books
  • I did a film recently in the Republic of Georgia [upcoming 'Halo of Stars'] which was based on a long poem written by the director. We found that all these words were beautiful as a poem, but for humans it was more about the emotion or a look than just saying what was there.

    Beautiful   Stars   Long  
    Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
  • The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.

    Dancing   Halos   Vortex  
    Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)”, p.83, Lulu.com
  • There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.

    Horse   Forever   Special  
    Herman Melville (2016). “Redburn.His First Voyage”, p.222, Herman Melville
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